TY - JOUR ID - 71402 TI - The Opportunities Afforded by Embedded Computer Systems for Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes in Less-Industrialised Countries (TECHNICAL NOTE) JO - International Journal of Engineering JA - IJE LA - en SN - 1025-2495 AU - Collier, Michael AU - Sibanda, M. AD - Electerical Engineering, National University of Science & Technology AD - , National University of Science & Technology Y1 - 2002 PY - 2002 VL - 15 IS - 4 SP - 379 EP - 384 KW - Embedded Computer KW - Picocontroller KW - Zimbabwe KW - industrial research DO - N2 - The dramatic changes in integrated-circuit technology over the last two decades have been of great benefit to countries such as Zimbabwe. High volume production of VLSI chips has produced a supply of intelligent, versatile electronic processing devices at very low cost. In particular the facilities of the microcontroller have steadily developed to the accompaniment of a reduction in price. Since, in essence, the microcontroller is a complete computer tailored to control and monitoring operations, one is now provided with a device capable of application to a great variety of industrial and domestic situations. The major challenges lie in the interfacing and programming of the devices, and these are cerebral skills with which many less-industrialized countries are well endowed. The paper examines the opportunities in the embedded-systems area by means of a number of case studies of real industrial problems, whose solution has been achieved through these techniques. UR - https://www.ije.ir/article_71402.html L1 - https://www.ije.ir/article_71402_74d80f379bbbf5501f362eb4f2a42936.pdf ER -