COMPUTEX Highlights: Intel, Transcend, Acrosser

Intel Strides into Smart Greenhouse Solution with IoT Gateway
Greenhouse farming usually takes grower a lot of patience and efforts to keep the plants in the best growing environment. When it comes to distributed greenhouse farming, not only it will be time-consuming but also manpower-demanding to control the climate conditions in every plant house. Only if there's a solution to maintain the climate inside efficiently!

With deployment of Intel IoT Gateway, the agriculture sector can now turn the daily farming data into a more meaningful decision-making basis. Sensors for temperature, humidity, pH, and luminosity in the greenhouse pass the data to the local Galileo gateway. Galileo, via ZigBee, transmits the useful data to Atom processor-based gateway, and then uploads all the information to the cloud system.

According to the preset climate conditions, the analytic system will intellectually turn on the lights, fans, sprinklers or open the windows if necessary, just to keep the spaces under the desired growing environment. In the meantime, the data collected will be a valuable database for further farming research and business planning, making sure that the farmer can effectively learn from day-to-day experience.

Transcend Watches Out for Safety on the Move
In order to provide law enforcement officials and security guards a secured working environment, Transcend releases a full HD body camera, DrivePro Body 10.

This compact body camera is easy to clip on the uniform, featuring 160-degree wide viewing angle, infrared LED, IPX4 water resistance, and shock resistance. The built-in battery supports at least three-hour ongoing recording; therefore, this body camera can also be used as dashboard camera for motorcyclist.

As most of the dashboard cameras are designed to record road traffic with camera facing outside of the vehicle, some areas such as the Middle East are having even higher concern on in-vehicle safety as the crime rate has kept surging.

Therefore, keeping this market demand in mind, Transcend gives the world DrivePro 520, the dual-lens car video recorder, with both cameras feature full HD high-resolution recording. With one camera facing inside, the driver is able to run the business with a peace of mind. With Emergency Recording function, when the car camera detects severe shock, it will automatically keep the recording footage of the incident in a different folder, making sure that the crucial forensic evidence will not be rewritten.

Furthermore, the dashboard cameras by Transcend are all embedded with GPS receiver, keeping track of driving route even when offline. With built-in Wi-Fi on the car recorder, the user is able to download and playback the footage via smart phone app.

Acrosser Announces Ultra Slim In-Vehicle Computer
With decades of experience in industrial computing, Acrosser provides a lighter and thinner choice for powerful in-vehicle task. Acrosser Ultra Slim AIV-HM76V1FL, featuring 35mm in height and rugged fanless design, is convenient to put away anywhere on a vehicle.

It is the most important for the in-vehicle computer being able to integrate with various systems, in order to provide multiple functions for fleet management. Security camera and GPS functions are the most common requirements for vehicle application; however, when it comes to fleet management, a more comprehensive solution is demanded. Just to give an example, in-vehicle computer can server as a database center, collecting data with RFID technology and transmitting to the back-end server for inventory management or tasks scheduling.

Acrosser's industrial computer is also applied for driver fatigue management. An infrared sensor installed over the driver's seat detects driver fatigue based on eye movement. The triggered sensor will automatically send out audio alert and instantly vibrate the driver's seat as a warning; meanwhile, the computer will notify the control center with this incident which may help them to better arrange drivers' work shifts in the future.