Fanless Box PCs
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Fanless Box PC Overview
Introduction
Advantech’s Fanless Box PCs are designed to fulfill the needs of mission critical automation
applications. Their embedded design, industrial automation features and advanced
computer technology deliver robustness, reliability and flexibility to satisfy customers
who are looking for a rugged & compact computing platform with an industrial design
and built-in I/O for diverse automation applications.
Leveraging field-approved and worldwide accepted real-time OS technology, Advantech
provides Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded and Embedded Linux ready solutions
and supports several standard networking interfaces, such as Ethernet, RS-232/422/485,
onboard I/O lines, PC cards, CANbus and more. Because of its open architecture, great
expansion capability and reliable fanless, cable-less and diskless design, Advantech’s
Fanless Box PCs are an ideal platform to implement diverse custom applications in power/
energy, transportation, machine automation, factory automation, building automation,
facility monitoring system, environment monitoring vertical markets.
Features
Fanless Design
Advantech's Fanless Box PCs are robust computers without rotating parts, such as a CPU
fan, system fan, power supply fan or HDD. This concept significantly increases reliability,
extends MTTR, and extremely reduces maintenance efforts. Therefore, you don’t need to
worry about a CPU cooler or HDD failure issue anymore, even in dusty environments.
No Internal Cabling
Unlike general Box PC designs where cables are used for wiring between connectors and
CPU boards, connectors on Advantech's Fanless Box PCs are soldered directly on the
PCB. Therefore, there is no internal cabling inside the chassis. This makes Advantech's
Box PCs much more reliable than general Box PC’s in harsh environments.
Industrial-grade Power Design
Advantech's Fanless Box PCs are designed to accept wide DC power input (ex. 9 ~ 36
V
DC
) in factory floors. In addition, they also feature power reversal protection that prevents
system damage when power inputs are reversed.
Wide Operating Temperature Range
This series supports wide operating temperature through selecting low-voltage CPU and
industrial-grade components as well as associated thermal design that meets critical
industrial-grade applications.
Battery-backup Memory
To keep critical data alive when system power is lost, Advantech's Fanless Box PCs is
equipped with onboard battery-backup memory. Onboard battery supplies power to keep
memory operating all the time. In addition, battery-backup memory can also acts as
temporary runtime data buffer that helps reduce CF’s access times dramatically.
Ready Embedded OS for Rapid Application Development
Advantech's Fanless Box PCs provide an embedded operating system offering a
preconfigured image with optimized onboard device drivers. These Box PCs support
the three most popular embedded operating systems: Microsoft Windows CE, Microsoft
Windows XP Embedded and Embedded Linux. The embedded operating systems fulfill
the toughest requirements of complete functionality and high reliability. This series
quickly proves itself to be an application ready platform that will save time and energy
in launching your projects.
Flexible Networking Options
Advantech's Fanless Box PCs support diverse ways to connect to a network, including
Ethernet, Wireless LAN and Modems. Their built-in Ethernet port provides high-speed
networking capability up to 1 Gbps. The PCMCIA expansion with WLAN/3G/GPRS/GSM
module offers you a mobile and scalable network without incurring additional cabling
costs. And through their serial ports, industrial modems offer the most popular and easiest
networking way thru PSTN.
