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The feature rich Embedded PC that excels in AI inference at the Edge

Powered by Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake processors 250W power support for NVIDIA GPU cards Superfast 2.5G network support for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) ASRock’s IEPF-9010S-EY4 is a high-performance GPU AI system with a rich selection of I/O and storage options. Featuring the Inte...

How GMSL cameras can enhance the use of AI applications

What is GMSL? GMSL and GMSL2 (Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link) are multi-purpose, low-power interfaces for transmitting high-speed, high-resolution video, power, and bidirectional control data over coaxial cable or single twisted pair, which makes them ideal for many industrial and embedded imaging ...

Windows 11 IoT Enterprise 22H2– What you need to know.

Microsoft have released the first version of Windows 11 IoT Enterprise which is based on the 22H2 release of Windows 11. Not to be confused with LTSC, Windows 11 IoT Enterprise retains some well-known IoT features whilst introducing some new bells and whistles. We hope this will give those engineers...

VELA RACK series Powered by Advantech

About 18 months ago, Impulse announced the launch of our VELA range of customisable rack and tower PCs. The VELA RACK and VELA TOWER systems are ‘Powered by Advantech’ and have become a huge favourite with our customers looking for cost-effective, ultra-reliable and repeatable ...

Aaeon launches BOXER-8640AI Embedded BOX PCs Powered by New NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin.

Rich I/O including 4x Gigabit PoE ports packed into a compact device  200 Terra Operations per second of INT 8 compute performance   Latest JetPack 5.0 software development kit, makes application development easier and faster.  The BOXER-8640AI is Aaeon’s latest rugge...

Jetson Orin vs AGX Xavier

Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin is the latest addition to the popular line of Nvidia Jetson modules and brings superb enhancements in performance for Edge AI applications.

Top 5 Industrial Computing and IoT Products of 2021

It’s been a tough year for industrial computing manufacturers. The global IC shortage has impacted lead times for established product lines and has caused significant challenges for new product development. Nevertheless our manufacturing partners have been busy releasing a steady flow of innov...

The Price of your Industrial Computer System in 2022

For system integrators and OEMs who use industrial computers or IIoT devices in their systems it’s a safe bet that many will have seen price increases in their supply chain recently.

5 Examples of Embedded Computers

An Embedded Computer is a PC that is designed into another machine, device, or enclosure to form part of a complete unit. From the simple control of a roadside sign, to rolling-stock error logging on a national rail network, Embedded Computers are as versatile as their applications are varied. Their...

MXM GPUs Bring Intelligent Video Analytics to the Edge

Imagine a rail operator sitting behind a bank of monitors overseeing a level crossing, or a team of security professionals in an airport checking for abandoned bags. Video Analytics have been around for over half a century, but what is changing is the way that the video is analysed.

An Overview of M.2 Sockets and Modules

It’s been eight years since Intel launched the M.2 expansion form factor, introduced as the successor to the Mini PCIe specification, but anyone in the industrial and commercial computing sectors could be forgiven for not knowing exactly what features actually define an M.2 socket. Here we loo...

What Wi-Fi 6 Brings to the Industrial Sector

Take a moment to cast your mind back to the 20th of September 1997. Most would struggle to remember what they did on that particular date, but what is certain is that none of your activities on that day involved Wi-Fi. It wasn’t until the very next day that the new era of wireless communicatio...

UNO-148 Scalable Tiger Lake DIN-Rail Control PC

Features low-power yet high-performance 11th Gen Tiger Lake Intel Core processors 2kV isolated I/O and wide input voltage ideal for industrial control applications 2.5GigE LAN supports Intel Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) for real-time, low latency communications The UNO-148 joins Advant...

SPC-6000 - Configurable Elkhart Lake Embedded Computer

Latest ultra-low power (just 12W TDP) Quad-core Intel Atom x6425RE Elkhart Lake processor VHub AIoT Solution Service supports OpenVINO based AI accelerator and Edge AI applications 2.5GigE LAN supports Intel Time Coordinated Computing (TCC) & Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) The S...

Windows 11 and Embedded Systems – What You Should Know

If you’re reading this after October 5th 2021, then Microsoft’s new Windows 11 operating system should be available to download. Except for long-term service channel releases (LTSC), it will be a free upgrade for existing Windows 10 users (which may go some way to explaining why the lea...

UNO-137 Integrated IoT Edge PC for Industry 4.0 Applications

Compact ruggedised industrial computer with front-facing I/O for space-limited applications Super fast connectivity with support for 5G cellular expansion modules Modular expansion design allows I/O and comms customisation for specific applications Aimed at factory automation, Advantech's&...

How Smart Buildings Are Paving the Way to Cleaner Cities

When it comes to clean energy and reductions in global emissions, most eyes turn to the transport industry, with some cities promising combustion engine-free centres within the decade. Cities across the world, however, currently house half the population, with over 4bn people living in urbanised are...

5 Reasons System Integrators Choose Professional-grade GPUs Over Consumer-grade

While it’s not possible to process the most complex AI functions at the edge, modern GPUs have enabled embedded computer systems to operate multiple sensors and cameras to efficiently perform inference right at the edge, minimising latency between input and action — a vital step forward ...

What is an embedded computer?

An embedded computer/embedded PC is a dedicated computer system that forms an integral part of a larger machine or system. In contrast to an ordinary desktop computer, an embedded computer is generally designed or purposed for a single purpose. Where enterprise IT equipment in a manufacturing enviro...

Ultra-compact box PCs featuring Intel Elkhart Lake 10nm Atom processors

Elkhart Lake processors give 80% performance increase over previous Apollo Lake Atom processors POC-40 has a footprint similar to the size of a credit card, but still provides rich I/O POC-400 is DIN-rail mountable, with two 4K DisplayPort interfaces and internal M.2 E-key socket Neousys' ...

Choosing an embedded single board computer

For product and project managers who own their entire product lifecycle, an Embedded Single Board Computer is just one element, albeit a critical one, in the world of spinning plates that is bringing an electronic product to life. With so many options on the market — different manufacturers t...

The rugged Nuvo-2700DS for UHD Digital Signage applications

The Nuvo-2700DS is a rugged low profile fanless digital signage system perfect for harsh indoor or outdoor environments. Featuring the AMD Ryzen Embedded V1605B, a four core, eight thread 3.2GHz CPU combined with eight Radeon Vega compute units, the Nuvo-2700DS is capable of simultaneously powe...

The MAX-Q470A 10th Gen. Core Micro-ATX Motherboard with 5G

The MAX-Q470A is the latest micro-ATX industrial motherboard from Aaeon Technology, featuring a 5G compatible M.2 3052 socket and built to run the latest Intel 10th Gen. Core LGA1200 processor series. With a 25% core increase over previous generations and a burst frequency of up to 5.2GHz, the MAX-Q...

The Implications of TSMC's Global Chip Shortage

You may not have heard the name TSMC, but the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is working around the clock to help manufacturing and technology companies around the world recover from a global chip shortage, the effects of which has been felt for some time and not just in the industrial co...

Supporting Legacy Embedded Systems

One request we get quite often at Impulse, is whether we can support older, legacy applications. There are typically a few reasons why legacy systems can't be simply upgraded to the latest hardware technologies: the software was written in a particular programing language or for a particular ope...

AMD Ryzen Embedded

The need for industrial control and automation systems to grow in sophistication has increased markedly in recent years, while still being required to meet the space, power, and thermal demands of industrial environments. Impulse Design Engineers are constantly being challenged to find ways to satis...

Choosing the correct SSD for your application

Choosing the correct Solid State Drive (SSD) for your industrial or embedded computing application is key to maintaining a successful, reliable installation. Industrial and embedded computing applications are as varied as they are complex, but fortunately this variation is also reflected in the mult...

Solve any IoT problem at the edge with Advantech’s ultra-versatile ICR-3231 cellular router.

When coming up for a concept for this article, it soon became clear that there was no one solution the ICR-3231 was good for. The term “feature-rich” doesn’t quite cut it with Advantech’s ICR-3231 cellular router, and its flexibility means nothing is out of reach for it in th...

How can you secure your OT network?

In December of 2015, at 3:30pm, workers of the Prykarpattyaoblenergo control centre, an electricity distribution outlet for the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Western Ukraine, were preparing to wrap up their day and head home for the evening. That was until one particular worker, who was tidying his desk...

Why choose an industrial-grade network switch?

Environment, environment, environment. This is the key difference between the design aspects and considerations of an industrial network switch, vs those of their enterprise or commercial counterparts. Enterprise-grade hardware is more often than not designed to operate in a specific environment. ...

Top 5 industrial computing and IoT products of 2020

With the sheer number of products being distributed through our device supply service, along with industrial computers and embedded systems custom-built and configured in our dedicated ESD-protected workshop, our Design Engineers and Network Specialists get to experience a myriad of technologies and...

Can you use any SIM card in an edge computer?

Can you use any SIM card in an edge computer? Both our Network Specialists and Industrial Computing Engineers get asked this same question on almost a weekly basis. The short answer to this question is “yes”. The long answer is more complicated, and laced with caveats, but when boiled do...

5 Ways Manufacturing is Turning to the Digital Age

Digitising industry is nothing new, but manufacturing is one area which has appeared to lag behind the rest when it comes to moving to the digital world. But now, according to Forbes, the majority of “manufacturing executives” are tuning into the concept. However, according to the same s...

UNO-247 Fanless Edge PC for Demanding IIoT Applications

Advantech’s UNO-247 is a fanless entry-level Internet of Things (IoT) Edge computer. Equipped with an Intel Celeron J3455 processor, plentiful I/O ports with VGA, and HDMI display interfaces, the UNO-247 is designed to deliver substantial Edge computing power and connectivity at a competitive ...

Ultra-fast AI computing made easy with the SKY-6420 GPU server

Increase performance with the SKY-6420 19” 4U rack-mount system from Impulse Embedded. This scalable dual Intel Xeon based GPU computing platform server for cloud based AI inference allows you to conduct ultra-fast computing for data demanding industrial applications using GPU computing cards ...

UNO-420 PoE powered Data Sensing Gateway for the Edge

The UNO-420 from Advantech is a compact fanless data sensing gateway built around a low power Intel processor and with a comprehensive I/O interface including three programmable serial ports and eight programmable GPIO, facilitating connectivity of legacy equipment to new faster and more robust mesh...

Enabling IoT Edge Intelligence with WISE-PaaS 3.0

WISE-PaaS industrial IoT cloud architecture provides Edge to Cloud software and services to help you integrate and manage IoT powered business models across multiple vertical markets.

W24IKWS-MHL2 - Rugged 4K Ultra HD Wall-mount Panel PC

View critical data in sharper detail with the W24IKWS-MHL2, a rugged 4K ultra HD wall-mount Panel PC featuring the Intel 7th Gen. Core i5-7200U 2.5GHz processor and Intel HD 620 graphic capability.

The POC-500 AMD Ryzen Embedded PC from Impulse Embedded

The POC-500 series is a step up in performance for ultra-compact embedded PCs. It features the AMD Ryzen V1000 4 core 8 thread embedded processor offering up to 3x the performance over previous POC models. The POC-500 series is available in two CPU variants, the V1807B (45W) variant is for high comp...

UK in 5th place in the autonomous vehicle race

A report released this week shows that the UK is in 5th place in the race for driverless cars.