High-end PC for mobile machinery

A high-end PC is now added to B&R´s mobile automa­tion port­fo­lio. The new PC offers sig­nif­i­cant­ly more pro­cess­ing pow­er and mem­o­ry, giv­ing it plen­ty of resources to imple­ment autonomous func­tions for agri­cul­tur­al and con­struc­tion vehi­cles or self-dri­ving trans­port systems.

The PC is spe­cial­ly designed to per­form in harsh envi­ron­ments. The hous­ing tem­per­a­ture can be between ‑40°C and +85°C. The PC is also high­ly resis­tant to shock and vibration.

Ideal for resource and data intensive applications

Inside the mobile PC’s IP69K hous­ing is a pow­er­ful Intel Core i7 proces­sor. It also has 16 GB RAM and 480 GB flash mem­o­ry, mak­ing it ide­al for appli­ca­tions that are com­pu­ta­tion­al­ly inten­sive or involve larg­er vol­umes of data.

The increased com­put­ing pow­er is need­ed for tasks such as accu­rate path plan­ning in autonomous agri­cul­tur­al vehi­cles. More effi­cient, more pre­cise vehi­cles deliv­er increased yield.

From the field to the cloud with OPC UA or MQTT

The PC’s high per­for­mance makes it opti­mal­ly suit­ed for smart machines that com­mu­ni­cate with each oth­er, process data and send it to the cloud. Trac­tors and imple­ments can opti­mize har­vest­ing effi­cien­cy, for exam­ple, by exchang­ing infor­ma­tion such as speed and load capac­i­ty. B&R sup­ports well-estab­lished com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols like OPC UA and MQTT.