The expectations of the Internet of Things (IoT) are driving together two conflicting goals—building advanced operational features and minimizing cost and size. Today’s embedded-system developers are basically tasked with designing “TARDIS-like” products that appear bigger on the inside than on the outside. Building these types of systems requires a bit of magic, and fortunately, this magic exists today. By using frameworks for memory and power management, as well as scalability features available on a full-featured, real-time operating system (RTOS), it’s possible to have a system behave as if it has more resources available than what’s actually present...
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