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A Smart Microcontroller Architecture for the Internet of Things
The interoperations of endpoint devices are generally achieved by gateways in Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, the gateways mainly focus on networking communication, which is lack of data logic control capabilities. The microcontrollers with embedded intelligence could work as an intermedi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7180621/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32218211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20071821 |
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author | Wu, Zhenyu Qiu, Kai Zhang, Jianguo |
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description | The interoperations of endpoint devices are generally achieved by gateways in Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, the gateways mainly focus on networking communication, which is lack of data logic control capabilities. The microcontrollers with embedded intelligence could work as an intermediate device to help the interconnections of the endpoint devices. Moreover, they could help control the endpoint devices. In this paper, a microcontroller architecture with intelligent and scalable characteristics is proposed. The intelligence means that the microcontroller could control the target endpoint devices by its logical circuits, and the scalability means that the microcontroller architecture could be easily extended to deal with more complex problems. Two real world industrial implementations of the proposed architecture are introduced. The implementations show that the microcontroller is important to provide the intelligent services to users in IoT systems. Furthermore, a simulation experiment based on the cloud model is designed to evaluate the proposed method. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture. |
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spelling | pubmed-71806212020-05-01 A Smart Microcontroller Architecture for the Internet of Things Wu, Zhenyu Qiu, Kai Zhang, Jianguo Sensors (Basel) Article The interoperations of endpoint devices are generally achieved by gateways in Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, the gateways mainly focus on networking communication, which is lack of data logic control capabilities. The microcontrollers with embedded intelligence could work as an intermediate device to help the interconnections of the endpoint devices. Moreover, they could help control the endpoint devices. In this paper, a microcontroller architecture with intelligent and scalable characteristics is proposed. The intelligence means that the microcontroller could control the target endpoint devices by its logical circuits, and the scalability means that the microcontroller architecture could be easily extended to deal with more complex problems. Two real world industrial implementations of the proposed architecture are introduced. The implementations show that the microcontroller is important to provide the intelligent services to users in IoT systems. Furthermore, a simulation experiment based on the cloud model is designed to evaluate the proposed method. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture. MDPI 2020-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7180621/ /pubmed/32218211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20071821 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wu, Zhenyu Qiu, Kai Zhang, Jianguo A Smart Microcontroller Architecture for the Internet of Things |
title | A Smart Microcontroller Architecture for the Internet of Things |
title_full | A Smart Microcontroller Architecture for the Internet of Things |
title_fullStr | A Smart Microcontroller Architecture for the Internet of Things |
title_full_unstemmed | A Smart Microcontroller Architecture for the Internet of Things |
title_short | A Smart Microcontroller Architecture for the Internet of Things |
title_sort | smart microcontroller architecture for the internet of things |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7180621/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32218211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20071821 |
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