IBASE Releases Low-power Railway Gateway Computer with Intel Atom x6000E Processors

[btarunr]

IBASE Technology Inc., a world leading manufacturer of industrial motherboards and embedded computing solutions, is proud to announce its latest intelligent railway gateway computer supporting the new Intel Atom x6000E family processors (codenamed Elkhart Lake). Certified with EU EN45545-2 fire protection and EN50155 standards covering equipment used on rolling stock applications such as Passenger Information System (PIS), surveillance systems and vehicle monitoring systems, the MPT-500R series is built to withstand up to 3 Grms/3~500 Hz vibration resistance and operating temperature of -30°C to +70°C.

The MPT-500R low-power, compact railway gateway system comes with 4 GB/8 GB LPDDR4 3200 memory on board, 64G MLC SSD storage with high reliability, and an option between 24 V and 72/110 V DC input to meet various power requirements. Featuring robust M12 USB, Ethernet and power input connectors, it ensures fail-safe connection and fault-free data transmission suitable for deployments in harsh industrial environments. It has two PoE ports that provide power to IP cameras and runs artificial intelligence identification. Measuring 210 x 138 x 96.8 mm (WxDxH), the unit supports a host of useful connectivity functions including HDMI, RS485, two SIM sockets with 4G/5G WWAN operation, 2280 M.2 M-key for PCI-E SSD and an mPCI-E full/half-size socket.



The rugged MPT-500R comes with a choice of Intel Atom x6212RE 1.20 GHz or x6425RE 1.90 GHz processor and runs with Windows 10, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise and Linux closed/open-source operating systems. Constructed with aluminium housing featuring passive cooling fins for long-term and stable operation, the model has received a Taiwan Excellence Award 2022 recognition.

MPT-500R FEATURES:

• Intel Atom x6425RE/x6212RE processors
• EN50155 (2021) / EN45545-2 certified
• Fanless and ruggedized design
• Robust M12 connection for one 2.5G LAN, dual GbE LAN with PoE, dual USB
• Isolated USB, RS485 ports
• SIM socket with dual WWAN support
• Optional isolated CANbus thru Mini PCI-E card
• Wide-range operating temperature from -30°C to +70°C

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[lexluthermiester]

This is an odd article for TPU.

 

[zlobby]

Anyone has an idea which lines will be using these? I'd like to avoid them at all cost.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Anyone has an idea which lines will be using these? I'd like to avoid them at all cost.

Why?

 

[dj-electric]

Anyone has an idea which lines will be using these? I'd like to avoid them at all cost.

Prepare for all future trains to use edge compute for all tasks. I guess you'll be going by foot.

 

[zlobby]

Prepare for all future trains to use edge compute for all tasks. I guess you'll be going by foot.

I'm OK with it, sans the part where it's powered by intel. Plus, walking it the most natural and healthy way of transportation.
Maybe you know that in the Eastern Block even today they use fail-safe electrical relays. Even with little to no maintenace these are the safest designs to date. Well, it takes a whole room of these just for a single train station but still - these systems have perfect safety, no matter the type of fault.
Only problems ever occured are when humans overrided the automation.

 

[Luke357]

I'm OK with it, sans the part where it's powered by intel.

Why does having an Intel processor make it bad. Intel processors (historically) have been more stable than AMD processors (I know AMD stuff has been stable the last few years but most people don't know/care). Intel =/= bad.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Why does having an Intel processor make it bad.

It doesn't.

 

[Luke357]

It doesn't.

Read zlobby's comment.

 

[zlobby]

Why does having an Intel processor make it bad. Intel processors (historically) have been more stable than AMD processors (I know AMD stuff has been stable the last few years but most people don't know/care). Intel =/= bad.

Most large commercial aircrafts use AMD for their flight computers. In spite of the many plane crashes, none of them was ever attributed to the CPU.

Intel on another hand seem to be ridden with security holes just like a Swiss cheese. I won't put such CPU in critical infrastructure as train control.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Intel on another hand seem to be ridden with security holes just like a Swiss cheese.

I hate to rain on your parade, but AMD CPU's have just as many "security holes" as Intel and ARM CPUs. The perspective you're offering has little merit.