What is an Industrial host?
Industrial host, also known as industrial control main machine, is short for industrial control computer. It is also the industrial computer that we often hear from others.
What are the hardware components of the industrial host?
The industrial host has the basic characteristics of a computer. Its composition is composed of industrial motherboards, central processing units, north-south bridge chips, memory, hardware, graphics cards, sound cards, cooling systems, network cards and other I/O peripheral interfaces, etc. The casing is generally Use metal design.
For special industrial mainframes, a fanless low heat dissipation design is adopted for heat dissipation, and the case is a large-area metal shell (such as aluminum-magnesium alloy).
Of course, there are also some industrial hosts that use high-power CPUs. At this time, the traditional cooling system with fans is used.
Application system used by industrial host
Generally speaking, the application system of industrial host computer is XP/Win7/Win8/Win10 or Linux series of Windows series. Here to explain the pros and cons of these two systems on industrial mainframes.
The advantage of Windows is
User interface settings: Its intuitive and efficient object-oriented graphical user interface makes it easier to learn and use than Linux systems.
Software system support: At present, the number of software developed based on windows on the market is far more than that developed based on linux system. Most companies often only release windows version due to software development costs and market sales.
The disadvantage of Windows is
Platform service support: The windows system is mainly provided by Microsoft's official support and services, there is no open source situation, and the software on the windows platform is mostly paid software.
System stability: The host installed with Linux can continue to run without shutting down for more than one year, but the windows system has black screen, crash and other problems.
Security: Windows system is often patched and installed and system security updates, there are still viruses and Trojan horses; and there is basically no need to worry about poisoning when using Linux systems.
The advantage of Linux system is
Software system support: Most of the linux systems are open source and free software, and users can modify, customize and redistribute; but there is a problem that insufficient funds make some software quality and experience lacking.
Platform service support: Linux source code is open, making secondary development easy, and all Linux developers and free software communities around the world can provide support.
High degree of modularity: Linux's kernel is divided into five parts: process scheduling, memory management, inter-process communication, virtual file system and network interface, which is very suitable for the needs of embedded systems.
Compatibility: hardware support and network support. Fully compatible with unix. High security.
The disadvantages of the Linux system are:
Linux user interfaces are mostly graphical and command-line interfaces, which require memorizing a large number of commands.
Application of industrial mainframe?
Industrial hosts are widely used in AI intelligence, machine vision, drones, special equipment, rail transit, new retail, industry 4.0, smart cities, automobile manufacturing, libraries, archives, smart transportation, rail transit, logistics, clothing, pharmaceuticals , Aviation, ticketing, item tracking and anti-counterfeiting.
