SSIV 2015 Keynote II: From Embedded Systems to Autonomous Cooperating Objects

Summary form only given. The future of Internet lies with embedded systems´. This phrase of some years ago characterises a lot of what we now read about the Internet of Things (IoT), and if anything, the vision was surpassed by reality. In fact, even more specialised cyber-physical systems such as energy grids or telecom networks, or more detached realms, like train, plane or car automation systems, became dramatically convergent with the infrastructures relying on the Internet-Cloud complex. This progressive convergence creates a challenging scenario: such Internet-born cyber-physical systems, if not working properly, can do more damage than good, physical damage included. The key to these challenges lies in learning how to design safe, secure and dependable, autonomous and cooperating networked systems-of-embedded-systems, because this is how the future will look like. This talk reviews several years of research along these lines.