Taiwanese firm Asus IoT has announced an Arm-based fanless embedded computer for industrial use and a compact single-board computer (SBC) with a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 for versatile IoT and smart retail applications.

Both the Tinker System 3N and Tinker Board 3 have been designed to cater for diverse vertical applications and industrial demands.

The fanless Tinker System 3N, with a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 processor (Rockchip RK3568) and an Arm M-based Mali-G52 GPU, is for industrial use. It meets US MIL810H military-grade standards for shock and vibration resilience, and has a 0.79-litre size and an extruded aluminium chassis that ensures reliable operation in conditions from -40 to +60˚C.

Input range is 12 to 24V and it includes over-voltage, over-current, electrostatic discharge and reverse-current protection. Its expandable and customisable IO interface allows swift adjustments to adapt to diverse requirements and configurations, making it suitable for smart factory operations, human-machine interface (HMI) applications and outdoor kiosk deployments. It also benefits from a built-in neural-processing unit (NPU) designed for seamless AI integration and applications.

Also powered by a 64bit quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 processor (Rockchip RK3566) and an Arm-based Mali-G52 GPU, Tinker Board 3 delivers graphics processing and data security. It is for seamless integration and features a versatile software suite for quick market deployment, with support for over-the-air (OTA) updates, controls and SDKs to provide a complete offering for smart retail and healthcare.

It also has an integrated NPU for AI tasks, empowering capabilities such as object detection, speech recognition and face recognition. This makes it suitable for digital signage, self-service kiosks, medical devices and more.

Both Tinker System 3N (tinker-board.asus.com/system/tinker-system-3N.html) and Tinker Board 3 (tinker-board.asus.com/series/tinker-board-3.html) integrate software and hardware to deliver a comprehensive offering, including an SDK with GPIO API integration for simplified development, power scheduling for energy efficiency, USB device power management for durability, and regular OTA updates.

Asus IoT (iot.asus.com) is a sub-brand of Asus (www.asus.com) dedicated to AI and IoT.