Forecr RAIBOARD-AGX-IND NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Industrial Railway Carrier Board with 10GbE, IP67 Connectors and -40 to 85 °C

Cold starts, long service lives and vibration push a standard module outside its ratings long before the workload changes. The RAIBOARD-AGX-IND fits the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Industrial to the Forecr RAIBOARD-AGX railway carrier board, and with that module Forecr’s manual rates the board from -40 to +85 °C.

The Industrial module delivers 248 TOPS from a 2048-core NVIDIA Ampere GPU with 64 Tensor Cores and a 12-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, with 64 GB of memory and an operating life NVIDIA extends for industrial use. Where the site is less demanding, the RAIBOARD-AGX-32GB fits the 32GB module at 200 TOPS and the RAIBOARD-AGX-64GB the 64GB module at 275 TOPS on the same board.

On the RAIBOARD-AGX-IND, the board edge carries IP67-rated connectors for one USB 3.0 Type-C port that doubles as the recovery port, three USB 3.0 Type-A ports and an HDMI 2.0 output. A Gigabit Ethernet port, a 10G Ethernet port that also runs at 1G, two CAN bus ports, two RS-232/422/485 ports and four digital inputs with four digital outputs use locking Molex Dura-Clik connectors. Expansion is two M.2 Key-M 2280 NVMe slots with PCIe x4, two M.2 Key-B sockets with their own nano-SIMs for LTE or 5G and an M.2 Key-E socket for Wi-Fi. A 120-pin Samtec CSI connector takes up to six CSI cameras, with GMSL or FPD-Link cameras through Forecr’s expansion options.

The 32GB and 64GB builds of the board are rated from -25 to +85 °C, so this is the build for the coldest sites. Power is 12-30 V DC on a six-pin Molex Micro-Fit connector, and the board adds an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, an EEPROM and an RTC. It is the board inside Forecr’s RAIBOX-AGX computers, which Forecr designs to meet EN 50155 and IP67 with that enclosure. Forecr lists Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 with JetPack 5.x and 6.x. The RAIBOARD-AGX-IND suits onboard rail, trackside and railway surveillance designs at sites that see hard frost or high heat, where the Industrial module rating matters.