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ARBOR Technology takes the Internet of Things seriously. For the past couple of years or so, most of the innovative Taipei‐based company's new products have been related to IoT applications and projects in one way or another. Which is just good business sense at a time where experts expect 50 billion IoT devices and trillions of Iot‐related US dollars in increased revenue and reduced cost within the next ten years. The 8-inch ARBOR IoT-800 is a follow-up on the smaller IoT-500 5-inch HMI panel, where HMI stands for Human Machine Interface. The IoT-800, though still very compact, offers significantly...

On the backside, though, the IoT-800 does look like a Panel PC much more than like a tablet. There are full-size PC ports and industrial block connectors. The picture below shows what things look like back there. A downward-facing I/O block features the kind of legacy connectivity that continues to play an important role even in the era of Internet of Things and the Cloud. There's an old-style DB9 RS232 serial port, next to it one that's software switchable to RS232, RS422 and RS485, then a couple of full-size USB 2.0 ports, and finally a RJ45...

The IoT-800 isn't a mobile device in the sense that people carry it around like they would ARBOR's Gladius handhelds and tablets, but it's certainly mobile in vehicles. So ARBOR gave it a very wide 14 to 158 degree Fahrenheit (-10 to 70 degrees Centigrade) operating temperature range. The front panel is IP65-sealed, which means it's totally immune to dust and can also handle low pressure water jets. Drop spec isn't important in a device like this, but we'd like to see vibration resistance data in the specs. Where can it be used? Almost anywhere....

5-point projected capacitive touch Operating temperature Polycarbonate, wall mount and 75 x 75mm VESA mount Size (WxHxD) 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x RJ45 10/100, 1 x RS232, 1 x RS232/422/485, 4 x 3.3V GPIO, 1 x CAN 2.0b/OBD-II 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi plus Bluetooth 4.0 BLE, NFC, 3G/4G LTE WWAN, GPS + BeiDou List price ARBOR IoT-800 product page Data sheet Contact ARBOR IoT-800 spec sheet ARBOR Technology Corp. 10F., No.700, Zhongzheng Rd. Zhonghe Dist., New Taipei City 235, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: 886 2 8226 9396 Fax: 886 2 8226 9398 Web: www.arbor-technology.com (by Conrad H. Blickenstorfer from RuggedPCReview)...