Vecow AIC-100 NXP i.MX 6ULL Arm IoT Gateways with Mini PCIe SIM Slot and Isolated DIO and CAN Options

A lot of IoT data still starts as a serial meter reading, a dry contact or a CAN message, and the gateway that collects it usually sits in a small cabinet with little power to spare. The Vecow AIC-100 series is a family of fanless Arm IoT gateways on the NXP i.MX 6ULL, built for that kind of low-power data collection in energy management, building automation and charging-station projects.

Every AIC-100 model shares the same core. The i.MX 6ULL is a single Arm Cortex-A7 core at 900 MHz with 512 MB of DDR3L, drawing a typical 12 V DC at 500 mA. Each gateway ships with Debian Stretch R01, with Python, NodeJS and the Node-RED browser-based flow editor, so data flows can be built and changed without a full development cycle. I/O covers two 10/100 Ethernet ports, one USB 2.0 port and two RS-232/485 ports on a terminal block, and a full-size mini PCIe socket with a nano SIM takes an optional 4G LTE and GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth or LoRaWAN module. A micro SD socket takes SDHC cards up to 128 GB, and a watchdog timer restarts the gateway if the software stops responding.

The range splits on I/O and storage. The AIC-100 is the entry build with 512 MB of NAND flash, and the AIC-100A swaps that for 32 GB of eMMC for local buffering and logs. The AIC-110 adds 12 isolated DIO channels, eight inputs and four outputs, and two CAN 2.0 A/B ports in a taller case, with NAND flash, and the AIC-110A combines that I/O with 32 GB of eMMC.

In practice the AIC-100 series suits energy meters, building controllers, EV chargers and small plant equipment. Every model runs from -25 °C to 70 °C with no fan, on 9 to 50 V DC, with shock and vibration tested to IEC 60068-2-27 and IEC 60068-2-64, CE and FCC marks, and a design to EN 50155 and EN 50121-3-2 requirements. Vecow supplies a wall-mount bracket, with a DIN rail kit as an option, and lists 12 V and 24 V power adapters, terminal cables for the isolated DIO and the 4G, Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN modules as accessories.