Board compatible with Android, Linux and WinCE 6.0
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Biemme Italia is proud to present a new product based on Android technology. It is a powerful single board PC with 7″ touch screen that interacts with industrial and home automation systems. It supports many communication interfaces such as Ethernet, rs485, rs232, I²C, usb 2.0 and a special GPIO header together with a 2 megapixels camera sensor. We chose Android for its flexibility, semplicity and extensive use worldwide, even though other operating systems can be installed, such as Linux and WinCE 6.0.
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Hardware specification
The hardware architecture of this new touch screen is based on ARM Cortex A8 1Ghz processor, 512MB DDR2 SDRAM and 4GB of iNand Flash. It has an harware video decoder MPEG2/MPEG4/H.264 together with audio Line In, Ear jack and Mic. Two Micro SD slots can be used to expand the storage. Power input DC +9V at 1.5A. Weight, 350g (12 ounce approximately). Android (up to 4.0.4), Linux and WinCE 6.0 are supported. Technical Specifications.
Software specifications
The customers that need specific customization on top of our base package, can use the usual frameworks for Android app developing, for instance Eclipse. The device supports Android NDK, for native programming. The Android kernel is already configured for working with serial ports, without any constraints. The product will comes with a free Android modbus library that can be used to communicate with any commercial products such as PLC, I/O modules, temperature controllers and in general with any device that support the modbus protocol through rs485.
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Connectivity All the available connection’s interfaces make this board suitable for a broad range of applications that spans from smart homes to industrial contexts. |
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Data Storage Unlimited storage available using the two mounted SD slots and the fast internal iNand flash memory. |
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Modbus protocol through Rs485 Maximum control and extensibility using Uart, rs232 and Db9 debug ports. Rs485 port for industrial applications. |
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Media High definition connectors such as HDMI and TV out are ready to use in order to extend the range of application of this board. Take advantage of the audio interface. |
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Power On/Off A dedicated power on/off and stand-by button to easily switch between states. |
Android, Arduino and new devices
This new device supports the modbus protocol over rs485 communication channel. Therefore, is ready to communicate with many devices, for example with Arduino microcontrollers. We created a network of Arduino slaves that respond to the Android touch. The Android master uses a native modbus library. In this blog’s post, we explain the detail of this project together with specifications, features and availability.