We don't care about worst-case latency in practice, and average case is often ignored as well. We look at 99.9% latency numbers or things like that. Worst-case is for people designing pacemakers or rockets, that's not what we are doing here.
Pretty sure web enabled cameras are NOT pacemakers NOR rockets... heck they can't even put a different password on each device by printing on a sticker.
Nor is my sous vide machine or anything else I've seen as an IoT device. I wouldn't call say my oscilliscope an IoT device even if it can connect to wifi. It's a scientific device with cloud upload.
I'm well aware of this. I'm also aware that people are hacking these devices left and right. But a cow is a mammal and a mammal isn't a cow.
Gp post was not talking about security we're talking about Real time computing. If it's running on IoT hardware, eg rpi running linux, it's likely not doing real time os stuff because linux isn't really a real time os.
And I still don't classify pacemakers as IoT. Just because you want to slap a vague acyronym on any and every "connected" embedded device doesn't mean I agree.
We don't care about worst-case latency in practice, and average case is often ignored as well. We look at 99.9% latency numbers or things like that. Worst-case is for people designing pacemakers or rockets, that's not what we are doing here.