The IEEE Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES) is a highly selective single-track international conference focusing on premier research results for embedded systems - an area of highest relevance for visionary technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and applications such as Industry 4.0, Smart Production, Smart Cities, Connected Cars, etc.

Background: Application domains have a considerable impact on the evolution of embedded systems, in terms of required methodologies and design paradigms, supporting tools, and resulting technologies. Beside increasingly complex software and growing networks, application-specific hardware and systems on chips (SoC) will become more and more relevant in all areas of industrial and consumer applications. In order to provide sophisticated local and global services, there is a growing tendency to co-design hardware, software and networks for smart, dependable and networked devices. Therein, complex sensor/actuator functionality demands for real-time, safe, and secure signal conversion, data processing, and communication over large lifetimes of the deployed embedded systems. Apart, there is a clearly visible trend towards an increasing interaction between the affected domains. In this regard, the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to be one of the most disruptive technologies with transformational impact on industry and society throughout the next decades. As a global super-infrastructure, the IoT is a key enabling technology for a multitude of application domains, including smart cities, smart cars, smart home, smart health, smart factories, smart buildings, etc. However, related applications and services are only feasible if the underlying IoT doesn’t fail and disastrous real-world impacts are avoided, making dependability one of its main design challenges.

Aim: The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. SIES provides a platform to report on recent developments, deployments, technology trends and research results, as well as to discuss and start initiatives related to embedded systems and their applications in a variety of industrial environments.

About the Symposium: The SIES symposium series, which started in 2006, is an annual event organized by some of the leading research groups involved in research on embedded systems and applications. The series was hosted by University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France (2006); Uninova, Portugal (2007); LIRMM/CNRS, France (2008); Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2009); University of Trento, Italy (2010); Mälardalen University, Sweden (2011); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (2012); Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal (2013); Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy (2014); Siegen University, Germany (2015); AGH UST, Poland (2016), and France (2017).

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