Abstract: A system including a number of intelligent devices connected to each other through a network. The devices are adapted for interacting with each other and automatically discovering new devices by sending and receiving messages over the network. Each intelligent device has a hardware and a software unit. The network includes a plurality of connections having different comminications protocols. The software unit includes a module for discovering a new connection between the devices, identifying the communication protocol of the new connection, and creating a channel adapted for sending and receiving messages between the devices over the determined communication protocol.

Abstract: A system comprising a number of intelligent devices connected to each other through a network (15), which devices are adapted for interacting with each other and automatically discovering new devices by sending and receiving messages over the network, each intelligent device having a hardware and a software unit (4a 4c). The network comprises a plurality of connections having different communication protocols and the software unit comprises means for discovering a new connection between the devices, identifying the communication protocol of the new connection, and creating a channel (9) adapted for sending and receiving messages between the devices over the determined communication protocol.

Abstract: The invention concerns a software development tool for embedded computer systems, and is based on a repository of configurable, pre-programmed software components, together with associated tools for user selection and configuration of the components and a code generator for extracting relevant source code based on the configuration settings. Each software component, called embedded system infrastructure component (ESIC), is a self-contained object comprising a modular code base and associated configuration structure related to an infrastructure function in a hardware-independent, non-operating-system software infrastructure for an embedded computer system. For each ESIC, the configuration tool enables user configuration of the infrastructure function based on the configuration structure of the ESIC to match the requirements of the target application. For each ESIC, the code generator utilizes the configuration settings to extract source code for the infrastructure as a subset of the modular code base.