The wisdom of The Internet of Things strategy has, perhaps, been best demonstrated in my personal life by the fact that I now accept being tracked via my smartphone. For me, the benefits greatly outweigh any nebulous privacy concerns. The smartphone that is now my constant companion serves also as my personal radio-frequency identification chip,…
Since the concept, The Internet of Things, was conceived by Kevin Ashton in the late 1990s, much has changed with regard to the technologies available for realization of his vision. Ashton worried that the majority of data available via the Internet was filtered through the people who created and input that data, causing a bias…
Advantech recently announced one of the most intriguing approaches we’ve seen to system development, a new program that allows Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) and OEMs to design highly customized, application-specific systems using readily-available off-the-shelf components. This rapid system-customization approach has been dubbed “C²OTS” by Advantech for “customized commercial-off-the-shelf.” As described by Advantech, “C²OTS gives OEMs…
Like most of us, I get so caught up in day-to-day job challenges that it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture, and I got a reminder of that bigger picture recently while watching a favorite medical drama. There in state-of-the-art, make-believe operating theater was an actor using a touch-panel display that looked awfully…
Advantech recently announced a new range of industrial monitors that use the DisplayPort interface. DisplayPort offers a number of advantages to the industrial-computing arena, including being an open-standard, royalty-free format that is uniquely scalable and efficient. DP operates across cable connections of up to 15 meters in length without requiring signal boosters, while supporting resolution-intensive…
If you’re like me, you never met a catalog you didn’t like. Indeed, far more catalogs spend the night on my bedside table than do novels, and now that so much of my daily reading is done on a tablet, I’ve downloaded multiple catalog PDFs into that device as well. So, it’s no surprise that…
One of the many advantages we’ve found in supplying Advantech products is the company’s open communications with the IT professionals who use their components. For example, through its close attention to and follow up on user feedback, Advantech learned that a number of users were installing its ADAM Data Acquisition modules in their small base…
There is a new industrial computing platform on the market with a high-performance quad core processor and numerous I/O capabilities. The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech debuted the PCA-6011, which is a PICMG 1.0 full-sized single board computer (SBC) equipped with Intel® G41 and ICH7R chipset for industrial applications. Excellent connectivity is one of the…
If you need industrial computer systems, you have much more rigorous requirements than conventional computer systems. These systems need to operate around the clock in harsh industrial environments without failure. This means automatically mirrored and redundant data systems, high-end cooling systems, and power supplies that will not fail. At L-TronDirect, we provide systems that will…
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