Industrial Computers and Embedded Systems Reference Materials
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Industrial vs. Commercial Computers
From: WinSystems, Inc.Description: An industrial computer is a computing platform that has been ruggedized for specific industrial applications that must function in sometimes harsh environments. Its computing capabilities are ...
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Securing the IoT: Assessing the Requirements for an IoT Security Strategy
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Attacks on consumer IoT in connected lighting and white goods, have demonstrated the broad capability for attacks and the rapid impact of fear on consumers as they react to perceived loss of control ...
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Best Practices in Endpoint Security
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Best practices for endpoint security in industrial applications under the broader scope of industrial internet security. ...
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The Next Generation of Online Authentication
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: In the last twelve months, if you, your corporation or institution has not been victim of a cyber security attack, there can only be two reasons. Either you are complying with a comprehensive and ...
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White Paper: Intel® Apollo Lake Atom™ SOC - An Examination of the Graphics Engine and Display Controller Capabilities in the Apollo Lake Family of Low-Power SOCs
From: WinSystems, Inc.Description: This document will detail the graphics and image processing capabilities present in the Apollo Lake family of low power SOCs. ...
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Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing - What's the Difference?
From: WinSystems, Inc.Description: Organizations that rely heavily on data are increasingly likely to use cloud, fog, and edge computing infrastructures. These architectures allow organizations to take advantage of a variety of ...
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Encryption Perspectives in a World of Quantum Computers
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: New encryption mechanisms should already be considered for devices with long lifecycles that are installed nowadays. ...
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The Right Data is Required for Good Decision Making
From: AdvantechDescription: The evolution and proliferation of industrial automation and IIoT devices has created a wealth of data sources. Effectively harnessing this data empowers end users to make data-driven decisions and ...
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High Availability Server for IIoT Applications
From: AdvantechDescription: Industry 4.0 is the next generation of the continuing series of industrial revolutions that have created modern manufacturing-and all of modern life. Industry 4.0 will permit higher functioning, more ...
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Machine Condition Monitoring
From: AdvantechDescription: Traditional manufacturing done with saws, lathes, CNC systems and other rotary machines suffers unexpected downtime due to equipment failure. What can be minor or catastrophic component breakdowns are ...
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Smart Edge Gateways for IIoT Applications
From: AdvantechDescription: The industrial Internet of Things, the IIoT, is booming. That presents problems for those who manage legacy devices that lack a suitable connection capability. Fortunately, there is a cost-effective ...
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Rugged Tablet Boosts Productivity for the North American Coal Corporation
From: HandheldDescription: It takes a special kind of rugged tablet to hold up to the challenges specific to a mining environment. Using Handheld's Algiz 10X rugged tablet PC, workers at the North American Coal Corporation's ...
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Analog I/O Basic Knowledge
From: CONTEC Co., Ltd.Description: Basic knowledge and glossary terms related to analog I/O, A/D conversion, and D/A conversion in an easy-to-understand way that includes illustrations. ...
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Automation Dashboard for Industrial IoT Applications
From: AdvantechDescription: Providing users with cross-platform, cross-browser data access and user interface based on HTML5 technology. ...
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Solution-Ready and Scalable Platforms Simplify Machine Vision
From: AdvantechDescription: Developments in scalable embedded hardware and accompanying software have advanced machine vision from a specialized inspection tool into a powerful, flexible, and cost-effective automation solution. ...
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Industrial Wireless - Selecting a Wireless Technology
From: Black BoxDescription: High temperatures, excessive airborne particulates, multiple obstacles, and long distances are special challenges for wireless communications in industrial environments. But often, the cost and ...
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Understanding Power Needs for Industrial Control Devices
From: Black BoxDescription: Industrial control is a designation for the devices that interface with machinery such as welders, mixers, generators, lathes, and packaging machines. Unlike most of the information technology (IT) ...
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Remote Asset Monitoring Unlocks Information
From: AdvantechDescription: Data acquisition software featuring cloud connectivity provides the key for users to unlock smart device information trapped in their remote assets ...
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Energy Intrastructure Demands Mission Critical Networking
From: AdvantechDescription: Standard networking methods are acceptable for most SCADA systems but mission-critical power transmission and distribution system messaging and real-time control demands zero-loss solution. IEC 61850 ...
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Modular Panel Platform Provides Flexibility
From: AdvantechDescription: When the Box PC can plug into the display as a module, users can replace or upgrade either the Box PC for the display instead of the entire Box PC/display unit. ...
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Hardware-based Secure Identities for Machines in Smart Factories
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: The entire concept of smart factories hinges on security. The success of smart factories and Industry 4.0 as a whole depends on manufacturers' ability to cryptographically and securely identify ...
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High-Speed Recording of Frequency Trigger Points
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: At CAS DataLoggers we occasionally have customers who need to accurately determine the frequency of a given waveform at each of its cycles. For these applications, we offer real-time ADwin-Light Data ...
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What Are Solid-State Temperature Sensors?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Temperature measurements are among the most common data logging applications found across a broad variety of industries including cold chains, medical monitoring, and more. In our latest White Paper, ...
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Cleankeys Keyboards in Use at a Pharmacy
From: GETT North America LLCDescription: The pharmacy at the Elsterpark Centre in Plauen is one of the best-known in the region. Mr Ikels, the owner of the pharmacy, not only places great importance on providing professional advice, but also ...
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Control Panel for Machine and Plant Building
From: GETT North America LLCDescription: Individual machine control panel for Laservorm GmbH TASK DEFINITION Functional eye-catcher / Laservorm GmbH, special machinery manufacturer founded in 1994 with its registered office in Altmittweida ...
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Industrial PCs - Making the Right Choice
From: AdvantechDescription: Examine the pros and cons of various automation platform technologies. ...
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Operation Terminal for the Food Industry
From: GETT North America LLCDescription: Splash water protected operation terminal for Wernesgrüner Brauerei GmbH. ...
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The Importance of IP Ratings for Food & Beverage Computers
From: TEGUAR CorporationDescription: Anyone that works in a food or beverage manufacturing/processing facility knows that these environments are a nightmare for computers, especially those that are not designed to operate in this type of ...
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Securing the dataTaker DT80 Series Web Services
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Series 3 dataTaker dataloggers are popular for their communications functionality and for their ease of programming using the built-in dEX software. In our latest Technical Article, CAS DataLoggers ...
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How You Can Use BTU Measurements to Document Energy Efficiency
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: BTUs are a widely-used metric for energy production and in solar HVAC system financing. BTU data can represent significant savings. In our latest White Paper, CAS DataLoggers outlines the definition, ...
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White Paper: How to Design a SFF Embedded Computer...the Right Way!
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: Customers have started to move away from the traditional rackbased system(VME and cPCI) or deployed applications and are looking for a modern alternative. ...
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White Paper: The Essentials of Single-Ended and Differential Voltage Measurement, Pt 2
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: Examining important aspects of single-ended and differential voltage measurement, along with tips on why it might be better to choose one method over the other (Part 2 of 2). ...
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White Paper: The Essentials of SIngle-Ended and Differential Voltage Measurement, Pt. 1
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: Examining important aspects of single-ended and differential voltage measurement, along with tips on why it might be better to choose one method over the other (Part 1 of 2). ...
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White Paper: The Importance of Isolation
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: Examining important aspects of electrical isolation, what it does for you, why it is needed, and how to test for it. ...
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Cleankeys Glass Keyboard Facilitates the Workday
From: GETT North America LLCDescription: We have a little story to share about a customer of one of our cleankeys products. A few days ago we received this wonderful story. ...
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How to Select the Ideal Portable DAQ System
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Portable data acquisition systems are convenient solutions used to log data and monitor temperature and other values in industrial and laboratory applications. In this latest CAS DataLoggers White ...
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Why does the time-stamp look wrong in Microsoft Excel?
Description: FAQ: Microsoft Excel. ...
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Advancing AI By Keeping It In Check
From: ARC Systems, Inc.Description: Artificial intelligence, or AI, can be a contentious issue in tech and engineering. We're on an important threshold where tech leaders are asking how we can keep AI in check and still reach new ...
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How to surf the IIOT technology wave.
From: TEGUAR CorporationDescription: In manufacturing industries the IoT becomes the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) often referred to as Industry 4.0 in Europe. The IIoT is differentiated from the IoT as the IIoT is referring more ...
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Intel Galileo2 vs. Raspberry Pi2
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: As a follow-up to a previous article about the Intel Galileo and the Raspberry Pi (RPi), the discussion has evolved to a comparison between the second generations of both boards. Both have been ...
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How "Open" is Open Source Hardware?
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: Technologically, too, the practice is anything but new, though it wasn't until the 1990s that interest in the phenomenon of open software first leaked into the mainstream with the recognition of Linux ...
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Open Source vs. Proprietary: An Embedded Hardware Point of View
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: Fewer things ignite passion in software geeks more than the debate of open source versus proprietary code. The dispute is somewhat equivalent to the hardware debate on which type of capacitor is ideal ...
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Development Tools Map the Connected Future
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: As if the design of embedded systems isn't difficult enough, several trends are making it even more challenging. In the high-performance sector, designers must work with complex devices such as FPGAs ...
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Overcome the Challenges of Crafting a Customized Computer
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: Whether they're powering a map-sensor payload for a Global Hawk UAV or a man-pack radio system for a soldier on the move, custom computer solutions have to be small and lightweight. Oh, and while ...
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Seven Common KPIs for Production Monitoring
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: Using Visual Management to Drive Productivity ...
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Three Effective Visual Management Solutions
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: Using KPIs to Improve Profitability ...
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Mapping the Deep
From: Brainboxes LimitedDescription: Seamless interfacing was just one of the reasons LandScope chose Brainboxes' US-279 to solve their on board connection issues. LandScope Engineering specialises in high order inshore and near-shore ...
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Deja Vue - A Display Enhancement Technical Paper
Description: You may have heard a lot about optical bonding, but is it the right solution for your application? When examining an RFQ, there are key requirements included that determine if optical bonding will be ...
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Sunlight Readable NVIS-Compatible Displays Excel with LED Backlights
Description: When discussing display technology that has the capacity to be sunlight readable or night vision goggle compatible-or both-LED backlights invariably enter the picture. Here, we outline the finer ...
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Consolidating IT Infrastructure Management: Unifying Data Center Hardware and Software Administration
Description: The effective management of an enterprise IT infrastructure requires an integrated approach for monitoring and administration of hardware, software, and environmental platform elements. Organizations ...
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Pico-I/O Powers Portable Patient Monitors
From: ACCES I/O Products, Inc.Description: Advances in x86 processors, combined with a right-sized Pico-I/O peripheral card ecosystem based upon USB, make it feasible to meet the major requirements of portable patient monitors with fully ...
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Designing at Very High Voltages: Everything Changes, Especially Your Way of Thinking
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: For engineers who spend their design time in the single-digit, low-voltage world, the phrase "high voltage" may conjure up voltages in the double digits, perhaps as high as 24V or 48V DC, or even the ...
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Emerging Cloud-Computing-Oriented Communications Architectures Drive New Fiber-Optic Communications Applications
From: Mouser Electronics, Inc.Description: The insatiable demand for increased communication bandwidth is driving the development of new network structures and associated cloud computing architectures. These emerging networks will allow for ...
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Next Generation Data Center Infrastructure Management
Description: The data center is evolving as a result of major forces such as virtualization, cloud, converged infrastructures, big data and advances in mobility. ...
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Simplify Your Most Complex Data Center Processes
Description: Adding, moving, decommissioning and renaming devices in the data center should be a simple process. But in today's complex data centers, these tasks have become something of a high-wire act, fraught ...
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SDI-12: The Technology Behind Smart Sensors
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: SDI-12 has become the environmental standard of choice for environmental monitoring applications. At CAS DataLoggers we've put together this brief introduction to the SDI-12 standard highlighting the ...
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The Not So New News - Data Centers Pollute
From: Eaton | Power QualityDescription: Data centers are constantly in the news, which is not surprising given their importance to the digital age and the fact that they use a lot of energy. In part because of the global growth of ...
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Closing the Security Gap: How to Make the Desktop as Secure as your Network
Description: We like to think employees are committed to maintaining the security of intellectual property and abiding by privacy and security regulations. But it takes just one bad apple or someone who ...
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The Evolution of DCIM - A 451 Group Report
Description: Sometimes described as the operating or ERP system for the datacenter, datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM) technology helps operators manage their datacenters more effectively. But in order to ...
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Empowering your Data Center to Deliver Superior Customer Service
Description: Convergence is an important trend in the data centers as IT organizations seek to optimize their infrastructure. Certainly, pools of servers, storage and networking resources that can be shared by ...
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Next-Generation DataCenter Management
Description: Sometimes described as the operating or ERP system for the datacenter, datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM) technology helps operators manage their datacenters more effectively. But in order to ...
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3 Key Steps to Drive Risk out of the Control Room
Description: The heart of your business lies in meeting your customers' needs. But the brain of your operations is very likely the control room where company success increasingly depends on the efficient use of ...
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Practical Challenges and Solutions for Data Center Fitness
Description: This tech brief gives an overview of activities that increase IT and facility complexities. ...
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HOW TO: Safeguard SMBs from Online Security Threats
From: Eaton | Power QualityDescription: If you want to take the pulse of online security-threat trends, one artery runs right through the offices of the FBI. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Cyber Crime division is at work every day to ...
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Basic Techniques for Accurate Resistance Measurement
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: At CAS DataLoggers we often receive calls from users working in resistance measurement applications, for example using string pots to measure movement, measuring thermistors/RTDs for temperature, ...
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AN122 Introduction to PID Control
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: PID controllers are used in most automatic process control applications in industry. They can regulate flow, temperature, pressure, level, and many other industrial process variables. This Application ...
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Bus Technologies for Test and Measurement Systems
From: National InstrumentsDescription: Discusses the technical merits of several bus and platform technologies for use in test and measurement. ...
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How to Choose the Right Bus for Your Measurement System
From: National InstrumentsDescription: When you have hundreds of different data acquisition (DAQ) devices to choose from on a wide variety of buses, it can be difficult to select the right bus for your application needs. Each bus has ...
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The Future for New Bus Technologies in Instrument Control and Connectivity
From: National InstrumentsDescription: For more than 20 years, scientists and engineers have widely used the IEEE 488 GPIB for automating instrumentation systems. As popular computer technology enters the test and measurement arena and ...
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Digital World Mapping Makes Switch to Small PC's Rugged Vehicle Computer for Use in Helicopter Mapping System
From: Small PC ComputersDescription: Digital World Mapping Makes Switch to Small PC's Rugged Vehicle Computer for Use in Helicopter Mapping System ...
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Primetech uses Roadwater's vehicle LCD Display on Fire Truck
From: Small PC ComputersDescription: Primetech (UK) Ltd. has selected Roadwater's vehicle display model RWD080M for use in its' Fire Service Thermal Imaging camera system. ...
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Rugged Marine Computer from Small PC Selected by McKim & Creed, Inc. for Installation on Catamaran as Hydrographic Surveying System
From: Small PC ComputersDescription: McKim & Creed, Inc. has selected Small PC's Marine Touch Screen LCD computer model SDC150 for use in its' catamaran Hydrographic Survey System. ...
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Small PC's SC240ML Computer Proves Reliable Asset to GoldCorp's Rugged Gold Mining Efforts
From: Small PC ComputersDescription: Goldcorp has selected Small PC's rugged computer model SC240ML for use in its' fly-in/fly-out Musselwhite Mine, 480 km north of Thunder Bay. ...
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Thermal Analysis Research Project
From: Small PC ComputersDescription: SmallPC.com, a manufacturer of specialized computer solutions, has completed its research partnership with the Ontario Centres of Excellence and McMaster University ...
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WIN XP - Don't Get Left Behind
From: PHOENIX CONTACT USADescription: When Chaucer said that all good things must come to an end, he undoubtedly was not referring to Windows XP's end of life. However, as XP has just passed 12 years of existence, there are plenty of IT ...
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7 Ways Signal Noise Can Impact Your Electrical Equipment
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Have you been having problems with your electrical equipment but haven't found the cause? For many users it turns out to be a very common, widespread problem called ground loop feedback. This wiring ...
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Four Apps that Make Life Easier for IT Pros
From: Eaton | Power QualityDescription: Working in the information technology field can get pretty stressful. With several different programs running, a multitude of tasks to manage, and plenty of meetings and conferences to attend, you ...
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ZBA and Kiosk Scanning Applications
From: ZBA, Inc.Description: Deployment of kiosks and a population better trained to optimize their use makes for a burgeoning industry. Deployed in many different public venues, interactive kiosks give customers self service ...
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WP #102: Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley ...
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WP #126: An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60, 000, 000 megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous ...
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WP #147: Data Center Projects: Advantages of Using a Reference Design
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: It is no longer practical or cost-effective to completely engineer all aspects of a unique data center. Re-use of proven, documented subsystems or complete designs is a best practice for both new data ...
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WP #154: Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to ...
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WP #175: Preparing the Physical Infrastructure of Receiving Data Centers for Consolidation
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: The consolidation of one or more data centers into an existing data center is a common occurrence. This paper gives examples of what is becoming a standard architecture for preparing the physical ...
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WP #46: Cooling Strategies for Ultra-High Density Racks and Blade Servers
From: Schneider Electric ITDescription: Rack power of 10 kW per rack or more can result from the deployment of high density information technology equipment such as blade servers. This creates difficult cooling challenges in a data center ...
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Designing with FPGAs for Speed and Flexibility
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: The external world has a wide mix of I/O interfaces. Any FPGA module to be used must meet that interface. Acromag started with and developed a large family of FPGA modules. The IP-EP20x family of FPGA ...
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Espresso Book Machine by On Demand Books Uses Festo Pneumatic Components and GE Quick Panel HMI
From: Festo CorporationDescription: Of course, old technologies applied in new ways aren't likely to take over the mainstream as they once did, but niche and even artisan-level applications can be useful and often profitable. And, the ...
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Touch Screen Selection Guide
Description: A touch screen is an assembly that is mounted in front of a video display. It is activated by touching, with a stylus or finger, the selected area on the display that indicates the desired function. ...
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Power supplies for the next generation of CompactPCI systems
From: SchroffDescription: In order to supply the components of the system with their required DC voltages, power supply units (PSUs) are built into CompactPCI systems. The tasks of the PSUs include the following: to provide a ...
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Client/Server Terminology for Modbus TCP
From: PHOENIX CONTACT USADescription: Modbus is a very simple protocol, and for that reason, it is very widely used. The simplest topology consists of a single master (or client), and a slave (server). Multiple slaves or servers are ...
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Advice of Charge (AOC) Solution in the Cloud
From: Patton Electronics Co.Description: This technical case study describes the MetroAOC service, a cloud-based advice of charge solution from Metronet. Provided in the Software as a Service (SaaS) paradigm, the MetroAOC service is powered ...
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A Demonstration of PCI Express Generation 3 over a Fiber Optical Link
From: Avago TechnologiesDescription: In 2007, the PCI SIG released an external cabling specification enabling interconnection of PCI Express systems at 2.5 Gb/s (Generation 1) and 5Gb/s (Generation 2), facilitating access to PCIe ...
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ECDIS Hardware and the Integrated Bridge
From: Moxa Inc.Description: The marine industry's mandated transition to the Electronic Charts Display and Information System is a revolutionary development in ships' bridge systems. In this white paper, we show you how ...
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Eliminate Software Disasters with a Self-Repairing OS
From: Moxa Inc.Description: Corruption of system software - whether in the OS or in local, user-specific applications - can be equally catastrophic for both remote industrial installations and sites with mass deployments of ...
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Full System Protection from OS Failures: Moxa Smart Recovery
From: Moxa Inc.Description: System software is the heart of a computer, and should it fail the machine is rendered useless until it can be fixed. Unfortunately, a full operating system reinstallation takes lots of time and ...
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[White paper] Eliminate Software Disasters with a Self-Repairing OS
From: Moxa Inc.Description: Corruption of system software - whether in the OS or in local, user-specific applications - can be equally catastrophic for both remote industrial installations and sites with mass deployments of ...
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WP #102: Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center
Description: Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley ...
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WP #126: An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers
Description: Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60, 000, 000 megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous ...
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WP #147: Data Center Projects: Advantages of Using a Reference Design
Description: It is no longer practical or cost-effective to completely engineer all aspects of a unique data center. Re-use of proven, documented subsystems or complete designs is a best practice for both new data ...
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WP #154: Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
Description: Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to ...
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WP #175: Preparing the Physical Infrastructure of Receiving Data Centers for Consolidation
Description: The consolidation of one or more data centers into an existing data center is a common occurrence. This paper gives examples of what is becoming a standard architecture for preparing the physical ...
