Generally speaking: industrial computer than ordinary computer stability is better, such as ATM is often used industrial computer.
Industrial Computer definition: industrial computer is industrial control computer, but now, the more fashionable name is industrial computer or industrial computer, English abbreviation IPC, the full name of Industrial Personal Computer. Industrial computer is commonly said to be specially designed for the industrial site of the computer.
As early as in the early 1980s, the United States launched similar IPC MAC-150 industrial computer, then the United States IBM Corporation officially launched the industrial personal computer IBM7532. Due to the reliable performance, rich software, low price, IPC in the industrial computer, and a sudden rise, catch up, increasingly widely used.
Other lPC accessories are basically compatible with PC, mainly CPU, memory, video card, hard disk, floppy drive, keyboard, mouse, optical drive, monitor, etc.
Application field:
At present, IPC has been widely used in all aspects of industry and people's life.
For example: control site, road and bridge tolls, medical, environmental protection, communications, intelligent transportation, monitoring, voice, queuing machines, POS, CNC machine tools, refueling machines, finance, petrochemical, geophysical exploration, field portable, environmental protection, electric power, railway, highway, aerospace, subway and so on.
Industrial computer features:
Industrial computer is commonly said to be specially designed for the industrial site of the computer, and the industrial site generally has strong vibration, particularly much dust, and a high electromagnetic field force interference characteristics, and the general factory is continuous operation that is, there is generally no rest in a year. Therefore, compared with ordinary computers, industrial computer must have the following characteristics:
1) The chassis is made of steel structure with high anti-magnetic, dust-proof and anti-impact capabilities.
2) The chassis is equipped with a dedicated baseboard, which is equipped with PCI and ISA slots.
3) There is a special power supply in the chassis, which has strong anti-interference ability.
4) The ability to work continuously for long hours is required.
5) Standard chassis for easy installation is generally adopted (4U standard chassis is more common)
Note: Except for the above characteristics, the rest are basically the same. In addition, because of the above characteristics, the price of the same level of industrial computer is more expensive than the ordinary computer, but generally not too much difference.
Disadvantages of industrial computer at present:
Although industrial computer has unique advantages compared with ordinary commercial computers, its disadvantages are also very obvious -- poor data processing ability, as follows:
1) The disk capacity is small.
2) Low data security;
3) Low storage selectivity.
4) The price is higher.
Some differences with ordinary computers: industrial computer is also a computer, but more stable than ordinary computers, moisture resistance, shock resistance, diamagnetism is better, 24 hours running without problems. But also depends on the configuration, low match to play large games is certainly not good.
Industrial computer does not have a display, can be used with a display. Household is a little waste, generally used in harsh environment or the machine performance requirements are relatively high.