DevBoard Watch: Asus IoT unveils Tinker Board 3N for IIoT

Asus IoT, the IoT arm of the Taiwanese technology company, has announced the Tinker Board 3N, an Arm-based single-board computer aimed at Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications.

We’re talking industrial automation and smart factory environments, and IoT gateways and human-machine interfacing (HMI).

I learnt two things, when I saw this: that Asus makes SBC’s and it has an IoT division (showing my own ignorance)…

What is the Tinker Board 3N? The elevator pitch is that its an NUC-sized board (10 × 10 cm) powered by a quad-core Arm Rockchip RK3568 processor (Arm v8 architecture), aiming to provide suitable graphics processing with low power consumption.

It supports a range of I/O and works with Linux Debian, Yocto, and Android operating systems. Its optimized thermal design, says Asus, helps operation in demanding environments (it tolerates a -40 to 85°C temperature range).

The firmware supports over the air supports updates for both Android and Linux, and there are three models: 3N, 3N Plus and 3N Lite

Note that our own Technology Editor covered this board more authoritatively than I can – you can see the article here: Quad-core Arm industrial PC is ~100 x 100mm

For its own part Asus writes:

“Tinker Board 3N-series devices are equipped with PoE, LVDS, COM, and CAN bus interfaces, along with M.2 E and M.2 B slots to accommodate WiFi 5/6 and 4G/5G expansion modules for cloud computing. The onboard LVDS supports FHD output via dual channels, making it suitable for multiple display solutions, while embedded COM headers and CAN bus can be utilized in diverse applications, such as controllers and robotic arms, expanding the board’s usability.”

You can read more on the Asus IoT website.

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