"It's a cool industry," says Benedikt Weyerer, Executive Director of the embedded world Exhibition&Conference, which will be held at the Nuremberg Exhibition Center from March 14-16, 2023. He compares the show to a "single malt" for the embedded community, "distilling the highlights, innovations and trends of an entire industry in just three days." But what are "embedded systems" anyway?
They perform their service in most areas and devices of everyday life: in cell phones, routers and consumer electronics, in washing machines, televisions and refrigerators, in motor vehicles and aircraft. Their great strength: they are small. "Powerful computers, infinite memory and ultra-fast communication technologies abound in normal IT - but what is special about 'embedded' systems is that here the resources can be provided so cheaply, so small, so flexibly and so energy-efficiently that embedding them in the overall system becomes sensible and commercially possible," says Professor Axel Sikora. He is the jury chairman of the "embedded award" and, together with four other members, selects three nominees in each of eight categories. Three innovative start-ups and their products, representing all 24 potential winners, are presented here.