10 Raspberry Pi (SBC) based Products

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Without a doubt, Raspberry Pi is a great initiative and a great embedded computer board for education and for the makers. But, there are many limitations that make it a less likely choice for a commercial product. If you are interested to learn those aspects, read here.

Inspite of those limitations when I did detailed research online, I found various products based on the Raspberry Pi Board(SBC). Hope the information presented here is helpful for you.

List of products using Raspberry Pi (SBC)

1. Iono Pi

Iono Pi is an extremely versatile I/O module that combines several digital and analog input lines, power relay outputs and support for standard interfaces, typical of a modern PLC, with the powerful computing core of the Raspberry Pi.

2. Strato Pi

Strato Pi enhances the Raspberry Pi computer with several hardware features to make it suitable for use in professional and industrial applications where reliability and service continuity are key requirements.

3. Strato Pi Touch

4. Fanless Embedded Controller

The emPC-A/RPI is a compact, fanless embedded controller based on a standard Raspberry Pi 2 B board, but with Janz Tec custom additions to implement additional features needed for industrial applications.

5. UniPi Neuron

UniPi Neuron is a product line of universal programmable logic controllers (PLC) designed for applications in the smart home, commercial buildings, light industry and other fields of automation. It represents a modular and highly flexible device, which can be also used as a gateway for other devices. The Neuron is a product line of PLC units build to be universal and used in both Smart Home and Business applications and automation systems.

6. Andino X1

The Andino X1 is a microcontroller board in a DIN rail housing. It is used to adapt digital inputs and outputs for a maximum voltage of 24 volts. The X1 has its own microcontroller, a signal preprocessing and adaptation of signal generators and actuators. Optionally, a Raspberry Pi (Model B) computer board can be plugged in. The communication between the microcontroller and the Pi takes place via the UART interface.

7. Andino X2

The X2 includes both the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and an Arduino compatible microcontroller (ATMega164P with 12Mhz). The microcontroller enables the precise pre-processing of data and signals and the adaptation of hardware interfaces. Together with the integrated Power supply (84V..230V AC), it is a complete small industrial PC. The Andino X2 is also available with an integrated 2G/EDGE Modem witch enabled the remote Data collection.

8. Andino IO

The Andino IO, like its little brother, is the Andino X1, a motherboard for the Raspberry Pi. It allows mounting on a DIN rail in the control cabinet. The Andino IO is great for applications in data acquisition in the field e.g.

• production machines
• Energy data monitoring
• Capture environmental data Interface conversions

By the use of a LoraWAN, a 2G or a 4G Modem it is well suited for the data collection in the field!

9. Monarco HAT

The Monarco HAT add-on board turns the Raspberry Pi minicomputer into a PLC/PAC or a mini industrial PC (IPC) and allows you to use it in your automation project.

10. Element 14 Pi Desktop

Element 14 Pi Desktop Enclosure Kit gives you the gear to convert your Raspberry Pi into a mini desktop computer! The sleek, minimal enclosure is designed with an expansion controller that plugs into your Pi to give it all the extras you’ve been missing. It comes intelligent on/off the power switch and RTC. It even has an mSATA SSD socket and controller so you can plug in a large storage drive to create a media center or network storage system. If you have a Pi camera, you can insert it into a special slot in the case, no dangly bits!

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Happy learning to you!

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