In-vehicle electronics protected in rugged IP65-rated box PC

MEN Micro now offers the rugged BC50R, a new IP65-rated, maintenance-free box computer ideal for data acquisition in extreme environments throughout a number of in-vehicle applications, such as trains, commercial vehicles, mobile machines and ships, says the company. All external interfaces, including USB, digital I/O, Gigabit Ethernet, CAN bus and legacy serial I/O, are implemented on rugged M12 connectors for reliable data transmission. Offering a protection class of IP65, the box computer is certifiable to EN 50155 (railway) or EN 60945 (shipping) and conforms to ISO 7637-2 (E-mark for automotive). The BC50R starts with a powerful, energy-efficient T48N AMD Embedded G-Series APU running at 1.4GHz. Various CPU/GPU options combine with a wide selection of external interfaces, connected via separate graphics and I/O interface boards within the system, to provide an extremely flexible system quickly tailored to a wide number of applications. Inside the system, two PCI Express Mini card slots with two SIM card slots offer WLAN, GPS, other GNSS or 3G/4G functionality. The necessary antenna connectors can be made available at the front panel. The BC50R is equipped with 2GB of DDR3 SDRAM and offers SD card and mSATA slots. Additional memory resources include 64 KB of L1 cache and 512KB of L2 cache. An extremely robust aluminium housing protects the internal electronics, and the system's fanless design operates at temperatures from -40C to +70C (+85C for up to 10 minutes). The box PC supports either a 24VDC and 36VDC nom. (10V to 50.4 V) class S2 power supply in compliance with EN 50155 or power supplies with a nominal input voltage of 24V that either comply with ISO 7637-2 or EN 60945, says the company.