ASRock Industrial iEP-6012E-003 NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB Fanless AI Computer with 5G/4G Cellular Option

Remote monitoring at a pumping station, a solar site or a temporary works compound usually has power on hand but no fixed network, so results and alerts go out over a cellular link. The ASRock Industrial iEP-6012E-003 is the 5G model in the iEP-6012E series, a fanless AI computer that takes a 5G or 4G LTE module in its M.2 B-key socket.

The iEP-6012E-003 runs the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB with 8 GB of 128-bit LPDDR5, rated at up to 40 sparse (20 dense) INT8 TOPS, under NVIDIA JetPack 5. Storage is an M.2 M-key 2280 socket for a PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe SSD and a microSD slot, with TPM 2.0.

The M.2 B-key socket (3042/3052) runs on PCIe Gen3 x1 or USB 3.2 Gen 2, with a nano SIM slot and up to four cellular antennas, and an M.2 E-key socket adds Wi-Fi with two further antennas. Wired I/O on this fanless AI computer includes two Gigabit LAN ports, one HDMI 1.4 output, four USB ports, RS-232 and RS-232/422/485, plus DB15 connectors for digital I/O, CAN bus, I2C and SPI. Power is 12 to 36 V DC with 80 V surge protection, backed by a locking USB Type-C PD 20 V input.

ASRock Industrial rates the iEP-6012E-003 from -25 °C to 55 °C with a 5G module fitted, given 0.5 to 0.8 m/s of airflow, and from -25 °C to 60 °C with a 4G LTE module. The 68 mm wide, 1.6 kg case mounts vertically on a DIN rail or a wall. The iEP-6010E-003 pairs the same cellular layout with the Jetson Orin NX 16GB.