The FeT Conference is the largest IFAC technical event devoted to the context of industrial and embedded networked systems and their applications. Such systems integrate more or less smart sensors, actuators, and computing devices which are interconnected through communication means which can be either dedicated or shared between different applications.

Initially, those communication means were wired networks, mainly fieldbuses or specific real time local area networks. Nowadays, the communication means are broadened, i.e. they include technologies like wireless technologies, more general real-time local area networks and also internetworking through IP networks. The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum to share ideas and experiences, in this area of information, communication and cooperation technologies and their real-time and dependable applications, between academic researchers, practitioners and service providers, to review current trends and to discuss new research directions.

This conference will be the eighth. Previous conferences were held in Vienna (Austria), 1995, 1997, in Magdeburg (Germany), 1999, in Nancy (France), 2001, in Aveiro (Portugal), 2003, in Puebla (Mexico), 2005, and in Toulouse (France), 2007.