Arctic as a platform

Overview

Arctic as a platform utilizes a number of wireless (GPRS,EDGE, 3G, GSM, WLAN, Bluetooth) or fixed line (IP-to-serial, Ethernet, TCP/IP, MODBUS, IEC101/104) interfaces depending on your specific requirements. The Arctic is a customizable technology allowing you to develop software for your own applications. The Arctic is also of industrial-strength, i.e. designed to be used in extreme environments.

A device in the field - a windmill, for example - might have an Arctic measuring data such as temperature, humidity, oil consumption, vibration etc. The Arctic then utilises whatever software is pre-installed for your specific purpose, such as data conversion, storage, or processing. Finally the Arctic delivers this information through its wireless or wired interface to your backend information system such as SCADA.

Doing things remotely cuts down your costs as you eliminate the need to send a maintenance engineer to do the routine maintenance checks.

The Arctic uses a state of the art Motorola Coldfire MCF5272 CPU processor module, 1 ethernet, 2 serial ports as well as the flexible uClinux embedded operating system.