Access Auto Flow Control RS-485 on IGT-20 in CLI

Auto Flow Control RS-485 on IGT-20 Due to the fact that RS-485 is half-duplexed, it can either send or receive messages in any single moment. This fact results in some cumberson work to switch the direction of messages of the RS-485. When this RS-485 plays as ...

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ETHY-100 – A Solution to Limited Expansion of Fanless Computers

Industrial fanless computers are nowadays very commonly seen in industrial applications due to its robustness and the compact-sized design. But these industrial fanless computers are usually not quite good when it comes to expansion. Though some of them provid...

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Switching Modes of Serial Ports on IGT-20 to RS-232, RS-422 and RS-485

Designed as an industrial gateway for IoT, IIoT, Industry 4.0 and automation applications, IGT-20 has two serial ports enabling the connection to various sensors and devices. And among the sensors and devices, serial communication, i.e. RS-232, RS-422 and RS-4...

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IGT-20 OS Image and Disk Usage

Currently the pre-installed OS of IGT-20 is Debian 8, and the OS image is less than 1GB in a 8GB microSD. By using df command, one can observe the real disk usage as below: root@igt20:~#df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 10240 0 10240 ...

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IGT-20 / IGT-21 microSD Access Speed

IGT-20 and IGT-21 provides dual microSD slots and supports up to SDHC. Read/Write test has been performed with the default 8GB MLC microSD. Here’s the methodology and test result: Reading the microSD root@igt20:~# hdparm -tT /dev/mmcblk0 /dev/mmcblk0: Ti...

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