Advantech MIC-712 NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Orin Nano Fanless Embedded Computers with Optional 6x PoE+

Cameras on vehicles, gates and perimeter fences tend to sit where nobody wants to send an engineer: a hot equipment bay in summer, an unheated cabinet in winter, a site an hour’s drive away. The Advantech MIC-712 series is a family of ultra-slim fanless embedded computers designed for that kind of mobile equipment and safety and security work. Every model is rated from -25 °C to 70 °C with 0.7 m/s airflow, and every model has out-of-band management integrated within the system, which can cut the number of site visits needed to look after a fleet of units.

All four MIC-712 models share one design. They take NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX or Orin Nano modules, with a six or eight-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU and an Ampere GPU, and Super mode on JetPack 6.2 raises the rating to up to 157 TOPS on Orin NX and 67 TOPS on Orin Nano. I/O is two Gigabit Ethernet ports, four USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports and an HDMI output at up to 3840 x 2160 at 60 Hz. Inside, an M.2 E key socket takes Wi-Fi, an M.2 B key socket with a nano SIM takes 5G, and an M.2 2280 socket on PCIe x4 holds the NVMe SSD. Power is 19 to 36 V DC on a two-pin connector, with a 160 x 160 mm footprint.

The MIC-712-OX takes the Orin NX 8GB or 16GB at 60 mm high, with a MIPI connector for an optional four-channel GMSL2 frame grabber and headers for optional serial and CAN bus ports. The MIC-712-ON is the same 60 mm unit on the Orin Nano 4GB or 8GB, for lighter models and larger rollouts. The MIC-712P-OX adds six Gigabit PoE ports with a 150 W total power budget and individual port control, at 70 mm high, so IP cameras run from the computer without a separate PoE switch. The MIC-712P-ON brings the same six PoE ports to the Orin Nano.

In practice the MIC-712 series suits vehicle-mounted cameras, gate and perimeter monitoring, site security and video analytics where a fanless unit has to sit in a cabinet or equipment bay. Each model is rated for 3 Grms random vibration and 10 G shock, carries CE, FCC, UKCA, CB, UL, BSMI and CCC certifications, and offers an optional TPM 2.0. Builds with a 128 GB NVMe SSD ship with JetPack 6.2 pre-installed, and Advantech also offers builds without an SSD.