Vecow AIC-110A Industrial NXP i.MX 6ULL Arm IoT Gateway with 32GB eMMC, 12 Isolated DIO, Dual CAN Bus and Wide Temperature

Where a gateway reads isolated signals and a CAN bus and also needs room for local buffering, flash capacity can become the limit. The Vecow AIC-110A is the full build of the AIC-100 series: an Arm IoT gateway on the NXP i.MX 6ULL with 12 isolated DIO channels, two CAN bus ports and 32 GB of eMMC.

The NXP i.MX 6ULL is a single Arm Cortex-A7 core at 900 MHz with 512 MB of DDR3L, which keeps power low, at a typical 12 V DC and 500 mA. The AIC-110A ships with Debian Stretch R01 on Linux kernel 4.9, supports Python, NodeJS and the Node-RED browser-based flow editor, and stores the OS on 32 GB of eMMC, with a micro SD socket for SDHC cards up to 128 GB.

I/O covers two 10/100 Ethernet ports on RJ45, one USB 2.0 Type A port and two RS-232/485 serial ports on a terminal block. The 12 isolated DIO channels, eight inputs and four outputs, sit on a 20-pin terminal block, and two CAN 2.0 A/B ports sit on a six-pin terminal block. A full-size mini PCIe socket with a nano SIM slot takes an optional 4G LTE and GPS module, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module or LoRaWAN module, with three antenna positions.

Power is 9 to 50 V DC on a three-pin terminal block, and the AIC-110A runs from -25 °C to 70 °C with no fan, with shock and vibration tested to IEC 60068-2-27 and IEC 60068-2-64. The EMC list covers CE and FCC, and the gateway is designed to EN 50155 and EN 50121-3-2 requirements. It wall-mounts on a bracket or fits an optional DIN rail kit. The AIC-110 uses NAND flash instead, and the AIC-100A keeps the eMMC without DIO and CAN.