Applications and services mediate between users and machines. They represent the core business. Embedded systems often start out as a single application, but typically end up as multiple applications and services. Our experience lead us to the adoption of a winning strategy. We organise applications and services as microservices and design them according to the ports-and-adapters architecture.
At Qt Developer Days 2014 in San Francisco, I gave a talk with title "Case Study: Driver Terminal for Forage Harvester". I describe the technical challenges and their solutions when I helped Krone to develop the driver terminal
The University of Osnabrück invited me to give a talk about "HMIs of Agricultural Machines for 2016" at their COALA Symposium "Assistance Systems and Human-Machine Communication in Agricultural Engineering on October 30, 2014. Here is the abstract
Agricultural OEM Krone bets on Qt software library for development of their terminal / First prototype read in less than three months 585 horsepower, 15.6 litres engine displacement and an up to 9 metre wide cutterhead - forage harvesters are
When my customers develop embedded systems, they face similar challenges: * Challenge 1: iPhone-Like HMI * Challenge 2: Internet-Connected * Challenge 3: Running Everywhere * Challenge 4: Fast Time-To-Market Using examples from different industries, I'll first elaborate on the challenges and then