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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...

VELA Rack - Powered By Advantech

Not only are VELA Rack PCs built and configured in Impulse’s 35,000 sq ft facility in Staffordshire, but owing to their close partnership with Advantech, a leading global industrial and embedded computing manufacturer, UK stock of all components allow for build, configuration and delivery with...

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 ...

360 Assessment

Our rigorous 360 Assessment provides the basis for solutions which take full account of environmental factors, commercial imperatives and both legacy and proposed technologies.

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.

Using IP69K Devices in Food Manufacture

Some of the UK's largest food manufacturers are already using our waterproof stainless panel computers in their manufacturing processes.

How to install Node-RED on an IIoT Gateway

Node-RED is a simple yet powerful flow-based programing tool that allows you to collect data from new and legacy sensors, field devices and data points via a RISC or X86 computer platform, across all industries and application areas, and send relevant information to local and cloud dashboards and re...

What is Node-RED?

Node-RED is an open-source programming tool, for connecting hardware devices, APIs and online services creatively and easily. Primarily, it is a visual tool designed for the Internet of Things, but can also be used for other applications to very quickly assemble flows of various services.

Using computers in industrial applications can be challenging... here's why.

Industrial computers have come a long way since IBM first released their 5531 industrial PC in the early 1980s.

USB - Choosing the right bus in Automation

Ubiquity in electronics can be defined by a variety of components, from PCBs to CPUs, many of which emerge for a time, some of which were developed decades ago and remain fundamental to this day. Universal Serial Bus, or USB, debuted in 1995, and has since developed into perhaps the most popular I/O...

Top trends that will define intelligent manufacturing in 2019

Since the start of the first industrial revolution, manufacturing seems to have been the driving force in pushing industrial transformation forward. Today, we are in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution, with a new generation of technologies transforming manufacturing into a connected, int...

What is an Industrial IoT Gateway?

Industrial IoT Gateways enable wireless connectivity of legacy and remote industrial devices with next-generation intelligent infrastructure.

Advantech's LoRa sensors aid cold chain management solutions

An international hypermarket chain in Taiwan required a solution that would help ensure the quality of their frozen and refrigerated foods in order to meet the key objective for the store to remain compliant with the county administrators food supply chain requirements to ‘protect from the ris...

6 IoT trends and predictions that you’ll want to hear about in 2019

Once considered a niche technology for start-ups, is now made up of thriving technology that global businesses are building their futures on. The IoT has quite literally changed the way we live, and with more advances in technology on the horizon, this top 6 is merely the tip of the iceberg.  ...

Uncompromising performance and reliability with Neousys’ range of vehicle-to-vehicle communication devices

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technology explained Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is automated vehicle technology designed to allow vehicles to ‘talk’ to one another using dedicated short-range communication (DSRC). Some of the benefits of adopting Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communica...

Workforce challenges solved with Industry 4.0 technologies

Are you struggling to recruit for manufacturing roles that you once found straightforward to fill? Many people believe manufacturing jobs are disappearing, yet Forbes report that the struggle may lie in the skills gap, rather than in manufacturing unemployment as a whole.

Modern dairy farming challenges addressed with Sealevel’s technology solutions

Dairy farming has progressed in recent years owing to innovative technology solutions that are paving the way for the rise in modern dairy farm and herd management. The somewhat primitive nature of dairy farming is now becoming a thing of the past since these technology solutions are replacing the ...

A collaborative approach to Smart City projects will breed success for the UK

It is reported that by 2040, 65% of the world’s population will be living in cities, and as cities throughout the globe prepare for this explosion in population numbers, Smart City technologies are rising to the challenge.

Remotely control and monitor digital signage with Sealevel's Relio R9

As the demand for information-ready services increases, the need for vibrant signage that operates 24/7 is becoming increasingly popular. Retail stores the world over are using attractive signage to emphasise their message and to build successful brand recognition whilst airports, train stations and...

Smart Cities will be fuelled by edge computing, according to global data centre CEO

According to Serverfarm CEO Avner Papouchado, not enough is being done by administrations to develop a smart city infrastructure which will ensure longevity and reliability, and he is calling for heavy investment in edge computing, which should not be reliant on legacy systems.

3 things to consider when securing IIoT network devices

For many organisations, their cyber-security focus may be to formulate and apply security standards suitable to the network as a whole, however local device security may be less understood.

Address network convergence challenges with the Moxa ICS-G7000 series

- The evolution of network convergence in IIoT Adopting an IIoT network infrastructure that connects multiple sensors (things) to system devices will allow IIoT applications to acquire, compute and transfer large amounts of data with a view to automatically improving areas such as overall ...

Converting Modbus RTU to Modbus TCP with the Moxa MB3000 series

With its small form factor and dual mounting options the MB3180 can easily be installed into both new and existing applications. The configuration of the MB3180 can be achieved via a windows or Linux command line tool or via Moxa's own visual and intuitive software tool, the MGate Manager, which...

Increase server scalability with Advantech’s ASMB server boards

As we experience a shift towards cloud computing, network bandwidth and computing power have to be adequate enough to enable significant exchanges of big data between edge computers and cloud servers.

Reduce deployment time and frustration with Moxa's Modbus to DNP3 conversion solutions

Throughout the process of a project deployment, system integrators will often face various challenges, from managing multiple requirements for bridging serial-based DNP3 to Ethernet-based DNP3, the demand to cross-convert DNP3 protocols to other protocols like Modbus, as well as utilising embedded c...