Industrial All-in-One Panel PC Adds AI Acceleration

OnLogic is upping the ante in industrial HMI with its Tacton series of rugged panel PCs and touchscreen displays.

Designed from the ground up for manufacturing, energy management, and other industrial automation and control systems, OnLogic said the Tacton series is rugged, reliable, secure, and highly configurable. The first product in the family, the Tacton TC401, is an all-in-one panel PC powered by Intel’s next-gen N-Series processors, formerly Alder Lake, which feature a hybrid-core architecture consisting of high-efficiency "e-cores" and high-performance "p-cores." The CPUs also bring AI acceleration into the fold.

The dense I/O coastline is supplemented by the customization capabilities of OnLogic's proprietary ModBay, which can be used to add additional connectivity to support the specific requirements of a user’s application. To give customers more flexibility in compute performance, OnLogic has also rolled out the Tacton TN101, a family of industrial displays that can pair with any of the company’s existing industrial or rugged computers. In terms of operating systems, they can run Windows 10 IoT, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Ubuntu.

High reliability is a requirement for any industrial PC. The Tacton series can handle vibrations and other harsh conditions on factory floors and under the hood of heavy equipment. Featuring wide input power (12 to 24V or 12 to 48V) and wide operating temperature (-20 to 70°C depending on the display) ranges, the multi-touch displays are highly durable and have IP66 or IP69K ratings for water and dust protection of the front panels.

The modular design of the Tacton Series allows the TC401 and TN101 to be configured with one of 18 high-resolution displays. The regular or high brightness displays themselves have several different footprints and resolutions: 12.1 inches (1280 x 800), 15.6 in (1920 x 1080), or 21.5 in (1920 x 1080). They feature a resistive or projected capacitive touch interface and can be configured with an optional integrated front-facing camera.

As software comes to dominate factory floors and other industrial applications, durability is no longer the only factor in reliability and safety. Security matters, too. To deter unauthorized access, the new TC401 adds intrusion detection, which alerts customers when the control cabinet in which Tacton is installed is opened. An optional port blocking and cable securing bracket with onboard power supply mounting points helps protect against access to unused ports and secure cables to reduce the risk of accidental disconnection.

Moreover, the onboard TPM 2.0 hardware security helps to protect data traveling within the system and out to the cloud by bringing secure boot, platform integrity monitoring, and remote attestation to the table.

Tacton series can be installed via the standard VESA mount or panel mounted using its proprietary, rugged locking panel mounting clips, which help prevent the clips from unscrewing in vibration-prone systems. A unique front mounting bar helps speed installation, while a corner-mounted LED light pipe on the system's rear provides status light visibility from multiple viewing angles.