Raspberry Pi Industrial Design Partner OnLogic Unveils Its First Raspberry Pi-Powered Device
In celebration of Pi Day, OnLogic unveils the first details about their upcoming industrial grade Raspberry Pi-powered system intended for use in industrial, automation and IoT applications.
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT (MARCH 15, 2021)
Global industrial computer hardware manufacturer and IoT solution provider, OnLogic (www.onlogic.com), is celebrating Pi Day by unveiling their first Raspberry Pi-powered industrial computer. Measuring just 102.5 x 129 x 38 mm, the tiny device made its debut on the OnLogic website on Pi Day (3/14), after first being shared with OnLogic’s community of hardware enthusiasts and device builders who signed up to receive more information in advance of the system’s public availability.
Raspberry Pi Industrial Design Partner OnLogic Unveils Its First Raspberry Pi-Powered Device roboticstomorrow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from roboticstomorrow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Geeky Gadgets
10:03 am
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has today announced a new initiative to provide extra support for industrial customers using the Raspberry Pi range of mini PC systems. The team has developed a new dedicated area on their website offering “For industry” resources. Created to provide industrial Pi users “the best place to go for industrial applications of Raspberry Pi”.
As well as the new Raspberry Pi Industrial online resources for industry, the Foundation has also announced a new programme to help customers looking to integrate the Raspberry Pi mini PC into their products. The new Raspberry Pi Approved Design Partners programme is a way of connecting trusted design consultancies with customers who need support designing Raspberry Pi computing solutions into their products.
The website section serves as a hub providing all the guidance and information that businesses deploying Raspberry Pi devices, or aspiring to do so, should need. It includes advice for using the single-board computer across business deployments, including links to datasheets, all the required compliance documentation, and software.
“The industrial market for Raspberry Pi has grown over the years, and now represents around 44% of our annual total sales,” said the Raspberry Pi Foundation s principal hardware engineer, Roger Thornton.
“We’ve seen this borne out with new releases of Raspberry Pi products: typically sales of a consumer product drop off once a new product is released, but we still see incredible sales of older models of Raspberry Pi. Our inference is that these are destined for embedded applications, where changing to the latest model is not practical.”
SEE: (TechRepublic Premium)
But a big chunk of its sales are destined for industrial applications. Raspberry Pi estimates 44% of the computers are sold to the industrial market each year. It bases this figure on the observation that large numbers of older models continue being bought after sales of the latest Raspberry Pi decline. Typically sales of a consumer product drop off once a new product is released, but we still see incredible sales of older models of Raspberry Pi. Our inference is that these are destined for embedded applications, where changing to the latest model is not practical, said Roger Thornton, a Raspberry Pi hardware engineer in a blogpost.