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ARCOM LAUNCHES PC/104 CARRIER FOR CELLULAR WIRELESS AND GPS BASED M2M APPLICATIONS
13 April 2005 - Arcom
| Arcom has released a versatile PC/104 baseboard suitable for adding cellular wireless communications to any embedded Machine-to-Machine system. The Wireless-Embedded-Baseboard for telemetry includes sites to locate several leading iDEN and GPRS/GSM cellular modems from Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Siemens. |
The board also serves as a wide input (10 - 30v) regulated power supply for your PC/104 processor board, as well as providing an integrated Trimble GPS receiver module and digital inputs for status signals. The challenge for many system designers is to reduce size and cost by integrating more functionality onto fewer boards. Today, most PC/104 system builders use a separate PSU, a modem carrier and sometimes an extra GPS receiver card. These features have been combined into a single 155mm by 100mm board with I/O connectors conveniently located along one edge of the board. The onboard power supply can supply up to 2.5A at 5v, 2.5A at 3.6v and optionally, 250mA at +/-12v. Also, you no longer have to sacrifice two serial ports from your system to support the cellular modem and GPS connections because the WEB-Telemetry already includes two onboard UARTs. The WEB-Telemetry can be fitted with GPRS/GSM modems from Sony Ericsson (GM47/48) and Siemens (MC35i), as well as the Motorola iO200 and iO1500 modems used for the Nextel iDEN network. The WEB-Telemetry is the first commercially available embedded carrier board for the iO200, the very latest iDEN modem released this month by Motorola. The iO200 has been designed with integrated GPS functionality and offers a low cost solution for M2M applications using the Nextel data network. The WEB-Telemetry provides the matching connectors, power supplies and where appropriate, the SIM card (Subscriber Identity Module) carrier for plug-n-go operation. The board can be fitted with a low power Trimble LassenSQ GPS receiver to provide positional data and an accurate 1 pulse per second synchronized to an atomic clock.
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About: Arcom
Founded in Cambridge in 1982, Arcom has grown to become one of the leading suppliers of embedded computer and communications processors.
Arcom's embedded software development and support capabilities are second-to-none in the industry. Our engineering and support teams in Kansas City (US) and Cambridge (UK) have an enormous depth of experience and knowledge in the field of embedded operating systems, communications protocols, and system design. We pride ourselves on being able to provide comprehensive development tools and excellent support to our OEM customers as they bring their products to the market.
Development Kits - we lead the embedded market with our strategy for new product introduction based on the 'blue-box' development kits. By combining new hardware solutions with the leading embedded operating systems we offer our customers a complete and rapid application development environment.Embedded Boards - our range of embedded processor boards (x86 and XScale), PC/104 I/O modules, ISAbus and PCI add-on cards are all designed and manufactured by Arcom. This gives our customers fast and easy access to the highest level of technical support. All products are supported by a clearly defined life cycle and a commitment for long term availability. PCs & Enclosures - we also recognize that customers need products to ease the integration of our embedded boards. Arcom's design team includes mechanical engineers who have developed a number of off the shelf enclosure solutions for stand alone and rack mounted systems. Industrial Networking - since 1992, we have been actively involved in the integration and deployment of data acquisitions systems for the process control markets. Working with our key technology partners we now offer products and expertise to provide guaranteed data delivery from your field devices straight into your enterprise level applications. Design & Build - we understand the drive to cost reduce products for high volume applications and to combine this with a 'complete technical solution'. We accept contracts to produce custom solutions which focus on the design of dedicated hardware, developing optimized operating system configurations or complete packaged system solutions. Through a focused approach to innovative design backed by comprehensive development platforms, global marketing and low cost manufacturing, Arcom pursues an aggressive expansion of its customer base in North America, UK and France. Arcom is a subsidiary of Spectris plc, the precision instrumentation and controls company. Our business processes are accredited to the international QA standard ISO 9001 and our products hold all relevant certification. |
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