ASRock Industrial iEP-6020E NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB DIN-Rail AI Computers with PoE and 5G Options

Edge AI in a factory or utility site usually has to fit into an existing control cabinet, talk to the machines already there and run without a fan. ASRock Industrial calls the iEP-6020E series an Industrial IoT Controller for that reason: a family of fanless DIN-rail AI computers built around the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB module, with machine I/O on the front and top panels rather than added later.

Every iEP-6020E model uses the same Orin NX 16GB module, with 16 GB of 128-bit LPDDR5 and up to 157 sparse (78 dense) INT8 TOPS with Super Mode under NVIDIA JetPack 6.2 and Ubuntu 22.04. Storage is an M.2 2280 M-Key socket for a wide-temperature PCIe Gen4 or Gen3 NVMe SSD, plus a microSD slot. Two Gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 (one locking), two USB 2.0 and HDMI 2.0 are shared across the range, along with one RS-232 and one RS-232/422/485 port and two DB15 connectors carrying four digital inputs, four digital outputs, CAN bus, I2C and SPI. A TPM 2.0 is on board, and two MIPI CSI-2 camera connectors are reserved as an option.

The builds differ in what sits beside that core. The iEP-6020E-000 is the Basic build, the only one with horizontal wall or VESA mounting and an M.2 B-Key socket for an optional second SSD. The iEP-6020E-001 adds two IEEE 802.3af PoE ports on Intel I210AT controllers for IP cameras. The iEP-6020E-002 has four 802.3af PoE ports on Intel I210IT controllers, six RJ45 in all, and is the one build without the M.2 E-Key Wi-Fi socket. The iEP-6020E-003 takes a 5G or 4G LTE module in its M.2 B-Key socket, with a Nano SIM slot and up to four cellular and two Wi-Fi antennas.

Across the range, power is 12 to 36 V DC on a Phoenix-type connector with 80 V surge, over-voltage, under-voltage, over-current and reverse protection. The iEP-6020E series is rated from -25 °C to 50 °C with 0.5 to 0.8 m/s airflow, stores from -40 °C to 85 °C, carries CE and FCC Class A marks and is tested to IEC 60068-2-27 shock and IEC 60068-2-64 vibration. In practice these DIN-rail AI computers suit cabinet-mounted vision, camera analytics with PoE, and remote IoT control over cellular, with the machine connections already in place.