Industrial Automation Magazine India

ASRock Industrial launches the iEP-7020E Series IIoT Controller for Intelligent Control at the Edge

Published on : Wednesday 29-03-2023

Ideal Edge Controller and IoT Gateway in smart manufacturing, factory automation, robotics, process automation, etc.

Taipei, Taiwan (March 28, 2023) – ASRock Industrial has announced the release of the iEP-7020E Series Industrial IoT Controller enabled by 13th Gen Intel® Core™ Embedded and Industrial Processors (Raptor Lake-P) for optimised performance and scalability. With Intel® Iris Xe graphics for fast AI and Intel® In-Band ECC support, delivering intelligent and reliable control over vital processes at the edge. The iEP-7020E Series feature optimal flexibility in I/O and expansion design with Intel® TCC and TSN support for real-time computing to flawlessly connect edge devices in one compact form factor. The systems fan-less and rugged design guarantees functionality in harsh environments with -40~70°C wide operating temperature and 9-36VDC wide range DC-IN power inputs. It is the ideal Edge Controller and IoT Gateway in smart manufacturing, factory automation, robotics, process automation, smart city, smart retail, AI surveillance and more.

With CPU and GPU enhancement, the iEP-7020E Series enables streamlined solutions through high-performance data acquisition and control capabilities in edge computing, delivering real-time visual insights with intelligence. The iEP-7020E Series Industrial IoT Controller include powerful and versatile models- iEP-7020E-000 (Basic SKU), iEP-7020E-001 (PoE SKU), and iEP-7020E-002 (5LAN SKU) charged by 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7/i5 Embedded and Industrial Processors (Raptor Lake-P). The performance hybrid architecture supports up to 14 cores and 20 threads for computing-intensive process control, securing optimized performance and energy efficiency while delivering up to 1.08x faster single-thread performance and up to 1.05x faster multi-thread performance. The Intel® Iris Xe Graphics provide up to 96 execution units (EUs) for graphics boosts, along with dual channel DDR4 3200MHz SO-DIMM DRAM up to 64GB supported Intel® In-Band ECC for fast AI inference use cases while ensuring reliable data integrity.

The iEP-7020E Series come in fan-less and compact sizes of 55 x 170 x 134 mm (W x H x D) for iEP-7020E-000(Basic SKU)/002(5LAN SKU) and 68 x 170 x 134 mm (W x H x D) for iEP-7020E-001(PoE SKU). They are equipped with rich IO extensions, including four RS232/422/485 serial ports, one 4DIs/4DOs with power-on/reset, three USB 3.2 Gen 2x1, one USB 2.0, and one line out/mic in for connection to multiple factory equipment. In addition, there are three 2.5GbE Intel® i226-IT LAN with vPro support, two 1GbE Intel® i210-AT LAN (PoE SKU/5LAN SKU) plus optional two Intel® i210AT supporting IEEE 802.3AF PoE (PoE SKU) with Intel® TCC and TSN for real-time computing at the edge. They also support two DP++ 1.4a for close-to-perfect computer vision processing. The Series implements flexible I/Os design to satisfy diverse and simultaneous IIoT application requirements.