ABSTRACT
With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT), electronics systems are proliferating into every nook and corner. Conventional electronics design involved multiple capabilities (electrical, mechanical, software, compliance, etc.) and needed a big team to design a single product. With the IoT, the volume of products designed is exploding pressure on reduced time to market, and lack of qualified experts is putting pressure on companies to find ways of efficient development. DEFINE (stands for design, environment, functionality, implementation, necessities, enablers) framework enables the designers to develop the architecture of any IoT (for that mater any embedded system easily). This framework enables the designers to develop the contours of the product quickly and takes the system design to the next phase quickly. This chapter will explain the framework by detailing every element involved in the framework. This chapter will also give a checklist and guideline to help the designer to develop the overall product quickly and efficiently. Idea of the chapter is to give a simple checklist and guideline-based approach to design the overall product architecture (today there is no literature that is available as it mostly comes out of experience). With startups and entrepreneurs, access to experienced consultants is a challenge and this framework allows them to develop the high-level product architecture easily.
