Arestech MEVA-3111P/E 8th/9th Gen Intel Core Rugged Machine Vision PCs with One Expansion Slot

Many inspection stations are built around exactly one card, a frame grabber, a camera interface or a motion controller, and a two-slot computer just adds width the cabinet cannot spare. The Arestech MEVA-3111P/E series keeps to one slot: machine vision PCs with a single PCI or PCIe x16 slot, fanless with 35 W processors, on a Core i3, i5 or i7 board with four removable drive bays.

Both models share the Intel Q370 board used across the Arestech MEVA-3110 family. 9th and 8th Gen Intel Core LGA1151 processors run with up to 64 GB of DDR4 2400/2666 in two SO-DIMM sockets, and Intel UHD Graphics 630 drives VGA, DVI-D and DisplayPort at up to 4096 x 2160. Three Intel GbE ports with Wake-on-LAN and PXE, six RS-232/422/485 ports, 8x isolated DI and 8x isolated DO, and six USB 3.2 plus two USB 2.0 ports connect cameras, triggers and controllers. Four removable 2.5″ SATA bays support RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10, two CFast sockets are shared with mSATA, and four full-size mini-PCIe sockets take LTE or Wi-Fi modules. Windows 10 IoT or Professional and Linux are both supported, and an external clear-CMOS switch and removable CMOS battery help with servicing in the field.

The two models differ only in slot type. The MEVA-3111E carries one PCIe x16 slot for a current frame grabber, camera card or graphics card, and the MEVA-3111P carries one PCI slot so an existing PCI card can move onto a 9th or 8th Gen Core system. Both share a 127 x 241.5 x 231 mm enclosure weighing 5.2 kg, 21 mm narrower than the two-slot MEVA-3112P/E.

Power enters at 9 to 48 V DC, or 24 to 48 V DC with a GPU card fitted, with ignition sensing, a PC/car mode switch and protection against over-voltage, reverse voltage and over-current. With 35 W processors the MEVA-3111P/E series runs fanless from -40 °C to 70 °C, and an external fan kit from Arestech supports 65 W processors at up to 60 °C. Rated at 5 Grms vibration and 50 G shock, these machine vision PCs suit single-camera inspection, motion control and surveillance cabinets.