Project Introduction: The Earth hoards many treasures beneath its unassuming rock and soil. Geological surveys provide an efficient way to analyze and locate natural resources such as oil and gas, which is important for the mining and construction industry. A globally known company wanted to upgrade their Geological Survey System with a robust and highly efficiency platform to deploy on vessels, aircraft and even an unmanned station in desert.

System Requirements: The customer required a platform that could help them work more efficiently, which lead to the following requirements:

• A platform with high computing power
• Many serial communication ports to connect various equipment
• Audio to provide voice indicators to the operator
• A dual-display to monitor different data for collection and interpretation
• An embedded operating system for simple maintenance and increased reliability
• A compact and fanless design that could fit into tight control cabinets without temperature issues.

Project Implementation:

UNO-2182-D12E: Intel Core 2 Duo Embedded Automation Computer with 2x Gbe, 4x COM, DVI

PCM-3641I: 4/8-port RS-232 module

System Description: Geological Survey Systems usually deal with large amounts of data, so high computing power is very critical to the overall efficiency of the system. Intel's Core 2 Duo CPU can handle interpreting the data, and the UNO-2182 provides flexible PCI-104 expansion, which allows customers to easily integrate Advantech's PCM-3641I 4-port RS-232 PCI-104 interface card. Customers use the extended COM port to communicate with high-tech equipment, such as Sonar and GPS equipment.

First-tier operators need dual-displays for monitoring and analyzing the data, and the UNO-2182 provides a DVI-I interface for this support. Furthermore, the audio provides a friendly indicator voice to assist in work.

Conclusion: The UNO-2182 is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU which is a low power consuming and highly efficient CPU. Also the UNO's Industrial design is fanless, cableless and has a wide operating temperature (-20 ~ 60 °C) which helps customers deploy applications in critical environments.