DFI VC500-CMS-MXM-POE-Q Intel Comet Lake Core In-Vehicle Computer with 4x PoE and Ampere or Turing MXM

Running analytics on the vehicle, rather than uploading footage for later, needs both camera power and a GPU in the same box. The VC500-CMS-MXM-POE-Q is the PoE build of the DFI VC500-CMS-MXM series, an in-vehicle computer with four PoE ports, an MXM GPU slot and a choice of 10th Gen Intel Core processors, running on 9 to 50 V DC.

DFI offers the Core i9-10900TE, i7-10700TE, i5-10500TE or i3-10100TE, all at 35 W on the Intel Q470E chipset, with DDR4-2933 on two SO-DIMMs up to 64 GB. The MXM slot takes a Type A or B module: DFI lists the NVIDIA RTX A500, RTX A1000, RTX A2000 and Quadro RTX 3000, so the GPU can be sized to the number of streams and the model. The BIOS selects the MXM GPU or the integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630, and with a GPU fitted there are seven display outputs in total. It runs Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise or Ubuntu 20.04.

The four PoE ports support IEEE 802.3af at up to 15.4 W per port. Two GbE ports on RJ45, four RS-232/422/485 and one RS-232 port, eight USB 3.1 Gen 2, 8-bit isolated DI and DO at 2 kV and audio are standard, with two CAN ports and a DFI out-of-band RJ45 port as options. Two swappable 2.5″ SATA bays with lock support RAID 0/1, an M.2 2280 slot (PCIe Gen3 x4) takes an NVMe boot drive, and M.2 and mini PCIe slots take optional 5G, Wi-Fi or CAN modules.

Power is 9 to 50 V DC with ignition on a 3W3 connector. The VC500-CMS-MXM-POE-Q runs from -20 °C to 60 °C with passive cooling (without turbo boost, DFI notes), with fan cooling optional on request, is shock and vibration tested to MIL-STD-810G and wall mounts; DFI lists FCC, E-Mark compliance, CE, RoHS and UKCA. We supply it configured and tested, with the MXM GPU, memory, SSDs and the OS image fitted. For a fixed Core i7 and RTX A1000 build, see the VC500-CMS-A1000-POE-Q-i70; for 10G fibre, the VC500-CMS-MXM-10G-Q.