The FINANCIAL — Intel Corporation unveiled the Intel Industrial Solutions System Consolidation Series, providing an accelerated path for OEMs, machine builders and system integrators to implement state-of-the-art industrial embedded systems, according to Intel Corporation.
This is the first pre-integrated, pre-validated embedded virtualization product that allows customers to merge and manage multiple discrete systems into a single machine. The new series enables industrial and automation design makers to reduce costs and deliver new products faster and more efficiently, according to Intel Corporation.
As the first embedded virtualization product specifically designed for industrial and automation environments, the Intel Industrial Solutions System Consolidation Series allows customers to merge and manage multiple discrete systems into a single machine to deliver a low-risk path toward more efficient automation processes.
"More and more, the industrial sector is looking to technology for innovative ways to become even more efficient and competitive," said Jim Robinson, general manager of Segments and Broad Market Division, Internet of Things Solutions Group at Intel. "By bringing together what have typically been multiple subsystems within industrial equipment into a single computing platform, Intel's application-ready platform makes it easier and more affordable for OEMs, machine builders and system integrators to deliver consolidated, virtualized systems," he added.
The Intel Industrial Solutions System Consolidation Series offers a complete bundled solution containing an embedded computer with an Intel Core i7 processor and a pre-integrated virtualization software stack. The software stack includes Wind River Hypervisor preconfigured to support three partitions running two instances of Wind River VxWorks for real-time applications and one instance of Wind River Linux 5.0 for non-real-time applications.
Prior to this, consolidating solutions was a considerable challenge because many applications within the industrial segment require real-time performance or the ability to perform in a very predictable way. Virtualization addresses this by enabling secure partitioning of important workloads using multiple virtual machines. With three partitions, developers can consolidate multiple discrete subsystems onto a single device, offering reduced costs, increased flexibility and reduced factory space.
Baosight, one of the largest system integrators in China, used the Intel Industrial Solutions System Consolidation Series to create iCentroGate*, a secure data collection and communication product that merged the tasks of two seperate devices into one CPU. Using the Intel solution, the company reported saving an estimated 60 percent of development time and 50 percent of development costs, according to Intel Corporation.
"The Intel Industrial Solutions System Consolidation Series is helping us provide a unique and innovative solution to our mainstream customers, which gives us a huge technological advantage," said Dong Wensheng, general manager of Baosight's R&D Division. "By starting with the Intel application-ready platform, our development cost and time have been reduced significantly," he added.
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