Start-up
Arduino and Raspberry Pi combined for industrial use
A young start-up company from the Nuremberg area combines Arduino and Raspberry Pi in an industrial-grade DIN rail housing.
Not far from Nuremberg, a start-up company has been founded that is launching a new product for industrial control technology on the market. The company is called Clear Systems and the product is called 'Andino X1'. That sounds like Arduino, which is justified, but does not fully describe the core of the whole thing. In addition to Arduino-compatible electronics, the top-hat rail housing also contains a Raspberry Pi system. The Arduino system works with an ATMEGA 168 PA with 8 MHz and is mainly used for signal pre-processing. The Arduino part can be programmed from a PC with the Arduino development environment via a USB interface.
The customer can install and remove the Raspberry Pi himself. A Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 can be used, which is plugged upside down into a connector strip. The power supply is provided by the internal voltage converter of the DIN rail housing, which is supplied with 9 to 24 volts. The inputs and outputs are electrically isolated. In addition to the Raspberry Pi's USB and Ethernet, two relay and two optocoupler outputs are available on screw terminals, which are controlled by the Arduino controller. The manufacturer reports that the EMC testing of the Andino X1 including the Raspberry Pi has shown that the product meets the requirements even in harsh environments.
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