**7. Conclusion**

This forward-looking chapter provides an outlook on low-end motes in the age of IoT. It illustrates how current reprogrammable platforms are the best choice to adapt to the ever-changing IoT environment after a full assessment of the trends and problems offered by the IoT paradigm to low-end devices. Obviously, the ever-increasing volume of data created by IoT motes, along with the end of Moore's Law, necessitates


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the development of new IoT system designs that are decentralized from the cloud, where the majority of data processing operations are now handled. This tendency is much more visible in security-critical contexts, where IoT motes must make real-time judgments that cannot be transferred to cloud services because to the infrastructure network's interminable data transmission delays. Although microcontrollers provide the most programming freedom, their technology has reached its limits and cannot manage the increased computational power required by the upcoming generation of IoT devices. ASICs could satisfy this criterion, but they lack the programming/design flexibility that IoT systems demand. In this aspect, it is clear that reconfigurable platforms are an excellent implementation option for the upcoming generation of lowend IoT motes, as they provide unique competitive advantages such as flexibility through reconfigurable logic, versatility of hardware resources, high performance thanks to parallelism, and low power consumption with high security.
