Satwant Kaur

Transitioning Embedded Systems to Intelligent Environments: a Journey Through Evolving Technologies Satwant Kaur

Publisher Marketing: Dr. Satwant Kaur, the First Lady of Emerging Technologies, has drawn on her extensive knowledge of embedded technologies to offer a vision for how to use these technologies to the benefit of today and tomorrow in her new book, Transitioning Embedded Systems to Intelligent Environments. Insightful and relevant, this book brings the awareness of the intelligent embedded systems all around and where these systems are headed in the future. Pat Gelinsinger, the CEO of VMWare and the author of the foreword to Transitioning Embedded Systems, compares Dr. Satwant Kaur to Gordon Moore. Subramanian Ganesan, Professor of Engineering at Oakland University calls the book a "must-read for every student, scholar, and soothsayer of the convergence phenomenon," highly recommending the book to system developers, enterprise management professionals, platform architects, and "techno-entrepreneurs." After defining an embedded system as one that "has intelligence built in for computing and decision making," Dr. Kaur uses the human system as an example of the most complex and what all other embedded systems mirror. An intelligent environment, then, uses a team of embedded systems, each with a designated function. From the 100 applications stemming from Intel's embedded processors to embedded systems within a person's own home, Dr. Kaur's book highlights the significance of these systems. They are inescapable, but essential components of human life as well as contemporary culture. Some of the topics covered in Dr. Kaur's book include: Intelligent environments for energy. Intelligent environments for health. Intelligent environments for transportation. Robots in intelligent environments. Rather than a mere account of intelligent systems progressing over time, Transitioning Embedded Systems to Intelligent Environments provides a clear and focused guide both to what intelligent environments look like and how technologies can make envisioned and specifically designed embedded systems a reality. Dr. Kaur uses precise and clear language to outline the basics of technological systems and environments, but more than that she relates the concepts to real life. Transitioning Embedded Systems to Intelligent Environments is far more than a resource for the technologically-saavy-it is a practical guide for anyone-to apply system principles to concrete environments and to make life run more efficiently by designing such systems.