China’s prospering economy has driven major population increases in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, and the attendant increases in vehicular traffic has caused traffic nightmares. Authorities are taking action to deploy traffic monitoring systems to help enforce traffic laws and maintain public safety. These traffic monitoring systems detect traffic violations, retrieve images, recognize vehicle plate numbers, and send the data to traffic authorities’ central server for further action. Such outdoor applications require extremely rugged and reliable industrial computers with high-computing power and rich networking connectivity; they are deployed on many main thoroughfares–especially around intersections.

ARK-2150, featuring an 3rd generation Intel core i7/i3 processor with a fanless design, has joined the team carrying out Beijing’s traffic control mission. With its -20 ~ 60° C wide temperature support, up to 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports, rich I/O interfaces and remote management, Advantech is proud to send the ARK-2150 to do battle in challenging environments.