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June 2003
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SmartBox in short
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Developed by Tata Consultancy Services in collaboration with the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, SmartBox is a futuristic industrial controller that promises to deliver multiple benefits to the manufacturing and process industries
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Features
- Windows CE 3.0 RTOS-based.
- Configurable architecture, allowing run-time addition/removal of application components.
- Concurrent execution of multiple control applications.
- Execution of MPC, fuzzy logic or other complex, custom-built algorithms.
- Built-in web server enabling programming and execution of rmote diagnostics and up/downloading of application components.
- Open DCOM interfaces make functionality transparent and information exchange between SmartBox and high-level applications possible.
- Allows control applications to communicate, transact and collaborate over a network to create a distributed computing environment.
- Built-in RAD framework.
- PCI open standards.
- Network- and protocol-independence allows communication with any hardware device configured to OEM specification.
- Hardware-independent architecture.
- Application-builder GUI debugs applications.
- Built-in selectable OPC client option.
Specifications
- 233 MHz Pentium board
- Windows CE 3.0
- 2 PCI communication card slots
- 64 MB flash memory
- 64 MB RAM
- On-board Ethernet port
Applications
- Plant-wide control and optimisation
- Replacing PC-based control applications
- Connecting plant systems to enterprise applications
- Control and monitoring of complex plant equipment
- Distributed control applications
- Robotics and precision engineering
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