Arestech BPC-3025-2A1 Intel Celeron N3350 Fanless Industrial Mini PC with Dual GbE and 2x COM

Collecting readings from a handful of meters or machines and passing them upstream is a small job, and the computer doing it should be small, quiet and cheap to run. The Arestech BPC-3025-2A1 is the Celeron N3350 model in the BPC-3025 series, an industrial mini PC that fits on a DIN rail beside the equipment it monitors.

Compute comes from the dual-core Intel Celeron N3350 at 1.1 GHz, bursting to 2.4 GHz, with two DDR3L 1866 SO-DIMM sockets for up to 8 GB. On the BPC-3025-2A1 that is enough for protocol polling, data logging and a status display at a low power draw. Windows 10 IoT and Linux are both supported.

Two Intel i211AT GbE ports separate a device network from an uplink, one RS-232 and one RS-232/422/485 port connect meters, PLCs and serial equipment, and two USB 3.0 plus two USB 2.0 ports cover peripherals. Intel HD Graphics 500 drives HDMI 1.4 at up to 3840 x 2160 at 30 Hz and VGA at up to 2560 x 1600. Storage sits on an M.2 2242 M Key SATA slot, and a full-size mini-PCIe slot with one SIM holder and three antenna holes takes a 4G LTE or Wi-Fi module.

Power comes in at 9 to 36 V DC through a Phoenix connector, with a typical draw of 8.3 W at 12 V. Arestech rates the BPC-3025-2A1 fanless from -20 °C to 60 °C with extended-temperature memory and an M.2 SSD, which places it in the wide-temperature class, and it is tested to 1 Grms random vibration and 20 G shock. The industrial mini PC measures 180 x 50 x 115 mm, weighs 0.77 kg and mounts on a DIN rail or a wall. For heavier gateway or HMI duty, the BPC-3025-1A1 moves to the quad-core Pentium N4200 in the same enclosure.