Guide to Computing Fundamentals in Cyber-Physical Systems

This book provides a basic but complete coverage of material to use for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in various ways. It contains a framework encapsulating the CPS discipline, clearly showing where the multitude of CPS activities fits within the overall effort. This provides an ideal vehicle for understanding the complexity of CPS. Therefore, some choices have been made in selecting the material of this book. Hence, a top-down approach is taken that introduces the fundamentals of systems and embedded computing systems, focuses on the requirements of CPS and the Internet of Things, introducing their most important application domains. Furthermore ubiquitous computing is introduced describing how current technologies like smart things and services with some kind of attachment, embedment, blending of tiny-computers, sensors, tags, networks, and others like smart devices relate to and support a vision for a greater range of tiny computer devices used in a greater scope of CPS. This provides a framework within which the reader can assimilate the associated requirements. Without such a reference, the practitioner is left to ponder the plethora of terms, standards and practices that have been developed independently and often lack cohesion, particularly in nomenclature and emphasis. Therefore, the intention of this book is both to cover all aspects of the CPS and to provide a framework for the consideration of the many issues associated with CPS in advanced manufacturing (Industry 4.0) with regard to individualized production, networked manufacturing and concurrent open and closed product lines as part of CPS application referring to the respective methods in system and software engineering.