Advantech Launches Two New High Performance Automation Controllers - UNO-2184G/UNO-2174G

To meet the increasing demands of today's industries the Industrial Automation Group of Advantech has launched two new open architecture embedded controllers. The UNO-2184G is a high-end, high performance model designed for applications that require a large amount of graphical processing power whilst the UNO-2174G is a mid-end controller for industries that require faster performance than normal, but not the 3D capabilities of the 2184G.

The UNO-2184G comes with a high performance Intel® Core i7-2655LE processor and the UNO-217G comes with an Intel® Celeron® 847 processor. Both models come with a maximum of 16G DDR 3 RAM, a dedicated Intel® HD graphics processor and are completely fanless enabling them to operate in temperatures as low as -10℃ and as high as 60℃.

Both models also come with the following hardware configuration: three display ports (DVI, HD and DP [allowing two simultaneous connections]), six USB 2.0 ports, two Mini PCIe sockets for additional cards such as WLAN, 3G and GPS; four Gigabit LAN ports which support teaming functionality such as fault tolerance, link aggregation and load balance features; dual COM ports that support RS-232,422 & 485 with automatic flow control and support for any baud rate; finally, using the powered e-SATA port, a backup hard drive or USB device can also be connected.

To further aid performance and usability, the UNO-2184G and 2174G come with a dedicated Intel® VT-D chipset which allows system administrators to install multiple operating systems on a single device. Each virtual machine can then take control of the parts of the hardware that it needs to perform its tasks.

The benefit of using the 3D chipset of the UNO-2184G is that it is ideally placed to operate in environments that require instant recognition of objects to compare them with a database for example traffic monitoring control rooms where they have to process images from multiple cameras.

The mid-range UNO-2174G is designed to fulfill the needs of a wide range of industrial automation projects such as vision machines where multiple machines can send and receive data from a single controller.