New control unit provides Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) for military ground vehicles
ProductMarch 13, 2012
Alice Moss
Military Embedded Systems
Leveraging Intel Atom-based processing technology, engineers at Aitech Defense Systems in Chatsworth, CA, are able to provide a rugged, lightweight, control unit for military ground vehicles.
Leveraging Intel Atom-based processing technology, engineers at Aitech Defense Systems in Chatsworth, CA, are able to provide a rugged, lightweight, control unit for military ground vehicles. The NightHawk RCU, weighing only 4.5 lbs, provides Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) for military tracked and wheeled vehicle applications to reduce the overhead costs of preventative vehicle maintenance.
The NightHawk, which has a slimmer profile than similar models, also can be used for data concentrator and remote interface applications such as manned and unmanned ground or airborne vehicles as well as low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) Data Concentrator Unit (DCU) and Remote Interface Unit (RIU) applications. The device is also designed for extreme environments through natural convection/radiation cooling that dissipates as much as 22 W at +55 °C in stagnant (non-flowing) air, or at as hot as +71 °C with an optional low-pressure fan or baseplate.
Using a low-power Intel Atom processor that operates at 1.6 GHz, the new Aitech product provides as much as 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM as well as between 4 and 8 GB of SSD memory with an optional expansion up to 250 GB for extended and remote data collection and storage applications. Optional I/O includes MIL-STD-1553B, ARINC 429 and ARINC 708, CANBus, WiFi and WAN ports, as well as video capture and processing, discrete and analog I/O, and an eight-port GbE switch.
