This book covers a wide range of challenges, technologies and state of the art for the design, development and realization of smart embedded systems and their applications.

Saad Motahhir (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6846-8908)(Eng., Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member) has previous expertise acting in industry as Embedded System Engineer at Zodiac Aerospace morocco from 2014 to 2019, and more recently became a professor at ENSA, SMBA university, Fez, Morocco since 2019. He received the engineer degree in embedded system from ENSA Fez in 2014. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from SMBA University in 2018. He has published a good number of papers in journals and conferences in the last few years, most of which are related to photovoltaic (PV) solar energy and Embedded Systems. He published number of patents in Morocco patent office. He edited different books and acted as a guest editor of different special issues and topical collections. He is reviewer and in the editorial board of different journals. He was associated with more than 30 international conferences as a Program Committee/Advisory Board/Review Board member.

Section 1: Smart Embedded Systems for the Automotive Industry 1. Functional Safety Audit/Assessment for Automotive Engineering 2. Comparison between autosar platforms with functional safety for automotive software architectures 3. Hardware-in-the-Loop System for Electronic Control Unit Software and Calibration Section 2: Utilizing Embedded Systems for UAVs 4. Processor in the loop experiments of an adaptive trajectory tracking control for quadrotor UAVs Section 3: Smart Embedded Systems in Biomedicine 5. A Detailed Review on Embedded Based Heartbeat Monitoring Systems 6. Embedded systems in biomedical engineering: case of ECG signal processing 7. Acquisition and Processing of Surface EMG Signal with an Embedded CompactRIO based System Section 4: The application of embedded system in image processing 8. Quick and efficient Hardware-Software Design Space Exploration using Vivado-HLS: A case study of Adaptive algorithm for Image Denoising 9. Fast FPGA implementation of a moving object detection system 10. Face Recognition based on CNN, Hog and Haar Cascade methods using Raspberry Pi v4 Model B Section 5: Internet of things based embedded system 11. Survey Review on Artificial intelligence and Embedded Systems for agriculture safety : a proposed IoT Agro-meteorology System for Local farmers in Morocco 12. IoT-based intelligent handicraft system using NFC technology Section 6: System on Chip and Co-design 13. SoC Power Estimation: a short review 14. Hardware/Software Partitioning Algorithms: A Literature Review and New Perspectives Author Index Keyword Index