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The cost of robotic softwareThe cost of robotic softwarePosted Aug 14, 2006 18:17 UTC (Mon) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)In reply to: The real question we need to raise is by BlueLightning Parent article: A couple of lessons on the hazards of proprietary software
You can't tell me that the software to run a robotic parking garage, which I imagine is technically fairly simple, is worth $5500 per month. I suspect you haven't developed much embedded software, much less life-critical software. The garage control isn't life-critical the same way, say, a medical ventilator is, but you really don't want to crush any customers while you're closing the gate. You really don't want to crush any cars, either. Stuff that controls moving equipment having enough force to hurt someone takes a lot more work (including redundancy and fail safe design) than something dealing with, say, your bank account. Add in coordination with the hardware designers (and I mean hardware :-), and costs add up a lot faster than for a general-purpose computer program whose only output is pixels.
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