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Finding the right test strategies for IoT devices

by Mike Bartley and Declan ORiodan, Test and Verification Solutions Ltd (TVS) - Embedded.com, Dec. 30, 2014 – 

The internet of things (IoT) brings with it the ability to build more flexible and responsive control systems in which devices from many different vendors are brought together to deliver more functionality than is possible with traditional, standalone embedded systems.

But this shift raises a number of issues for effective validation and verification.

A key difference between devices designed for the IoT and classic embedded systems lies in the explosion of their possible use-cases. Traditionally, embedded systems were often designed to run in a standalone context or if they were networked would run in a small set of predefined contexts. Such designs could be supported by a relatively straightforward strategy of testing at the unit level, followed by testing the integration of those units and finally testing at the subsystem and system levels.

The IoT redefines the concept of 'system. It brings with it the possibility of building much larger-scale, emergent systems in which interactions between independently designed devices on the network deliver the system functions. Incorrect functionality within one device can result in unpredictable behaviour at the system level, or may have little to no impact because other devices in the system can respond appropriately.

A number of IoT applications rely on the concept of sensor fusion in which readings from many different sources are combined to build what should be a more accurate picture of what is happening around them. Errant devices may inject noise or incorrect data into the network that causes other devices to respond inappropriately, resulting in the wrong outputs being generated.


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