Transportation

Overview

A potential market in carrier management of transportation to provide a management methodology in trucking company with a rugged computer, it would have a satellite navigation system and a digital radio in each truck. A computer system in the central office manages the fleet in real time under control of a team of dispatchers. In this way, the central office knows where its trucks are.
Providing an efficient and reliable system in carrier management. Advantech offers a vehicle computing with communication solution as single solution in this field.
The key success application used on several areas:

	Express truck management
	Patrol car management system
	Garbage truck management system
	Excavator GPS positioning system

Application

Advantech offers a rugged, compact size and fanless cooling computing platform with a easy installation mounting enclosure. In addition, the communicationis also important as integrated solution to positioning/monitoring information between a computer and satellite/data server.
The application is requested in outdoor to provide a sunlight viewable solution with transflective technology. Advantech also dedicated in this innovative technology improvement to provide a cost-effectivesolution compared with high brightness solution to reduce the power consumption and enhance the reliability.

The key requirement for this solutions are:

	Compact, Rugged & Fanless Cooling computing platform (Advantech Solution)
	Vehicle Mounting enclosure for any mounting methodology (Advantech Solution)
	Integrated serial communication and CAN-bus solution and optional WLAN(IEEE 802.11b/g), GPS communication solution (Advantech/Supplier Solution)
	High brightness display with transflective technology

Product

  Touch Panel Computer (TPC)

	TPC-660E		TPC-1261H
	5.7" VGA TFT LCD Geode™ LX800 Touch Panel Computer		12.1" SVGA TFT LCD Geode™ LX800 Touch Panel Computer

  Vehicle Mounting Enclosure

  GPS/WLAN(802.11b/g)

  OS

	Windows XPe