Monitoring your IoT devices provides insights into their usage patterns, environmental conditions, and user behaviors. This information can be leveraged to optimize device performance, improve user experiences, and develop better-targeted services or products. By analyzing patterns and trends in device data, it's possible to implement predictive maintenance strategies, scheduling repairs or replacements before a device completely fails, which will reduce downtime and maintenance costs.

Logging on embedded devices comes with a host of interesting and unique challenges that aren’t found on servers — devices are generally more memory, bandwidth, space, and CPU constrained, and devices often take weeks, months, or years to update, rather than days or hours.

Cellular devices and networks have come a long way, from brick phones and Blackberrys to iPhones and Google Pixels. In addition to being the ubiquitous connectivity protocol that keeps the Internet at our fingertips at all times, LTE is appearing in IoT products across all industries.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week we’re looking at four revolutionary ways IoT is transforming healthcare. The past four years have brought about a series of unprecedented events that challenged our worldview, our lifestyle, and most importantly, how we view healthcare.

Tracing of “runnables” is a fairly new feature in Percepio Tracealyzer, added in v4.7.0. One of our automotive customers needed this feature to make ISO 26262 certification of their Electronic Control Unit (ECU) software easier. In order to properly allocate ECU functions to tasks and to cores, and to ensure that they meet the budgeted resources, it is useful to know execution times, response times and wait times for each task and runnable.

Tracealyzer version 4.8.2 has just been released. This version mainly fixes bugs, such as custom state machine models not being remembered on trace reload, and eliminates a number of compiler warnings in the Recorder source code. In addition, the update features improved streaming over UDP, and the bundled SSH library SSH.NET has been updated to the latest version. Users with a current maintenance contract can upgrade to Tracealyzer 4.8.2 from within the application, or by visiting the update page.

DevAlert 2.0, which is now immediately available from Percepio, is a major upgrade to our edge observability platform. The upgrade provides much improved diagnostic capabilities, including core dumps for Arm Cortex-M devices. This allows remote inspection of crashes, errors or security anomalies in full detail, including the function call stack, parameters and variables and with source code display.