STW’s new Eb07 expansion board brings the latest in off highway telematics to our electronic controllers without the need for modems. The Eb07 expansion board has a 400 MHz PowerPC micro-processor with a full Linux operating system environment providing the following functions that can be accessed directly from the main controller through an API:
- Data-logging of key machine variables
- Networking
- Remote procedure calls (RPCs)
- File management and streaming.
The following optional software products may be run on a controller with the Eb07:
- Software updates for the ESX-3XL or ESX-3XM controllers through the USB port (the update hex file is on a USB flash drive)
- Modbus TCP protocol
- Vehicle Data System (STW’s web-based telematics package for data logging and real-time diagnostics)
The EB07 has 1GB of flash memory, an Ethernet port, a CAN port, a serial port (RS-232) and a USB port, as well as a real-time clock.
The Eb07 Linux environment provides a platform for adding capabilities that are becoming necessary in the rapidly evolving world of smart, connected vehicles such as around security, encryption, new communication protocols, autonomy, analysis, data mining and a host of other cutting edge applications.