MAY/JUNE 2017 VOLUME 15 | 3 EMBEDDED-COMPUTING.COM TRACKING TRENDS Embedded systems engineers are dropping the ball in security! 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ADVERTISER CONTACT Flay Mohle, Marketing Manager [email protected] +1 (817) 274-7553 CONTENTS May/June 2017 | Volume 15 | Number 3 FEATURES opsy.st/ECDLinkedIn @embedded_comp 10 Innovation in sensor analytics 14 at the edge COVER By Ian Beavers, Analog Devices Inc. The 2017 Innovation Issue of Embedded Computing Design recognizes electronics industry pioneers Oliver Winzenried of 14 Testing is the only way to assure that Wibu-Systems, Kristin Russell of Arrow Intelligent Systems, and Bill Mensch of code is correct Western Design Center, Inc. By Jay Thomas, LDRA Nominees for this years Most Innovative Products begin on page 30. 16 Ensuring a safe medical design By Mary Sue Haydt, Green Hills Software 16 20 Powering ahead: WEB EXTRAS Market pushes power systems forward Self-healing mesh networks on By Alix Paultre, Contributing Editor the 8-bit Industrial Internet By Brandon Lewis, Technology Editor https://bit.ly/SelfHealingMeshNetworks 22 APEC shows that power is (figuratively) hot By Rich Nass, Big data for engineers and Embedded Computing Brand Director scientists, part 1 By Dave Oswill, MathWorks https://bit.ly/BigDataforEngineers 2017 Top Embedded InnovatorS Speeding embedded systems time to market using Node.js By Michael Schmidt, Technologic Systems Oliver Winzenried, CEO and Founder Wibu-Systems 24 https://bit.ly/SpeedyDevWithNodeJS 26 Kristin Russell, Global President, Arrow Intelligent Systems 28 Bill Mensch, CEO, The Western Design Center DOWNLOAD THE APP Download the Embedded Computing 30 2017 Top INNOVATIVE PRODUCT Nominees Design app iTunes: itun.es/iS67MQ Magzter: opsy.st/ecd-magzter COLUMNS Published by: 5 TRACKING TRENDS 8 MUSINGS OF Embedded systems engineers are A MAKERPRO dropping the ball in security! Nixie tubes: Vintage tech for today By Curt Schwaderer, Editorial Director By Jeremy S. Cook, Contributing Editor 2017 OpenSystems Media® © 2017 Embedded Computing Design 6 IOT INSIDER 9 AUTOMOTIVE All registered brands and trademarks within EdgeX Foundry joins industry-wide ANALYSIS Embedded Computing Design magazine are the property push for IoT interoperability of their respective owners. Intel’s Mobileye deal an inflection iPad is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. By Brandon Lewis, Technology Editor point in automotive and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. By Majeed Ahmad, ISSN: Print 1542-6408 Online: 1542-6459 Automotive Contributor enviroink.indd 1 10/1/08 10:44:38 AM 4 Embedded Computing Design | May/June 2017 www.embedded-computing.com TRACKING TRENDS [email protected] Embedded systems engineers are dropping the ball in security! By Curt Schwaderer, Editorial Director With regard to IoT devices specifically, 9 percent of those designers don’t keep their source code in a ver- In an eye-opening embedded systems safety and sion control system – this makes historical snapshots security survey conducted by the Barr Group, 28 per- and bug-fix branch capabilities difficult to impossible; cent of respondents said the systems they work on 25 percent don’t have a bug tracking system or data- could cause injury or fatalities and 60 percent of the base to track known issues; 56 percent do not perform respondents said their systems were connected to the regular source code reviews for bug and security hole Internet. Disturbingly, even when their systems could identification; and 60 percent do not use any static code be dangerous and