ReliaCOR 40-13

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Overview

The ReliaCOR 40-13 is a compact, fanless platform that supports a wide range of workloads at the Edge.

Designed for industrial use cases, it offers reliable operation thanks to industrial grade ruggedization and a robust power supply. Very compact and power efficient, the ReliaCOR 40-13 can be deployed in dense installations; an optional mounting accessory further increases its versatility. Completely fanless and without ventilation grids, it offers great resilience and reliability even under extreme load.

The ReliaCOR 40-13 features a top-of-line 13th Gen Intel Core i9 CPU, to deliver power efficient computational crunch, with plenty of RAM thanks to a dual SO-DIMM. It offers a very complete set of interfaces, including dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet with TSN support, eight USB3.2 ports (10Gbps each, great for camera input) and two serial ports; thanks to dual universal bays, additional interfaces and devices can be added (such as 4G/5G cellular modules, 2x 10GbE ports, 4x GbE on RJ45 or M12, with optional PoE, more USB ports). The ReliaCOR 40-13 is also rich in Fieldbus interfaces, with CAN, RS-232/422/485 and isolated Digital I/O.

The ReliaCOR 40-13 offers best in class Cybersecurity: it leads the market with ISA/IEC 62443-4-1/-4-2 SL2. Protection starts at the hardware level, with full support for TPM 2.0, Secure Boot and an always-on physical antitampering monitor/logger that is active even when the system is removed from power. For most demanding customers, special production-only images can be configured with full hardware hardening (interface disabling) to further reduce the attack surface.

Eurotech configuration management service offers a simple and fast way to fine tune the ReliaCOR 40-13 to your project requirements; examples of personalized configurations include custom branding (with logo and custom colors) and can go to deep customization with a range of options such as frame grabbers, choice of internal components, etc.: call us for more information on how to take advantage of the ReliaCOR 40-13 flexibility.

The ReliaCOR 40-13 comes with Everyware Software Framework (ESF), a commercial, enterprise-ready edition of Eclipse Kura, the open source Java/OSGi middleware for IoT Edge Gateways. Distributed and supported by Eurotech, ESF supports ready-to-use field protocols (including Modbus, OPC-UA, S7), MQTT connectivity, web-based visual data flow programming and deep configuration. ESF is also integrated with Everyware Cloud (EC) SaaS, Eurotech IoT Integration Platform, enabling advanced diagnostics, zero-touch provisioning, and full remote device access and management.

Hardware Description

Datasheet

• ReliaCOR 40-13 Datasheet

Standard Kit Contents

Depending on the order code, you will receive the ReliaCOR 40-13 ready to be powered on with no additional hardware. By ordering a DevKit, you will also receive a Power Supply for your region, and the required accessories to start operating with your device.

Visit the product page for info on ordering codes.

• ReliaCOR 40-13 Web page

User provided items

A PC (Windows, Linux or Mac OS) with an Ethernet port and an Ethernet cable or Wi-Fi(TM) to connect to the device.

3rd Party purchasable items

Not Applicable.

Set up Your Development Environment

Operating System

Your ReliaCOR 40-13 runs Eurotech Everyware Linux, an optimized version of Ubuntu Linux OS specifically aimed at supporting industrial environment.

Tools Installation

The ReliaCOR 40-13 is distributed with the latest version of ESF already installed and ready to start.

In order to develop and deploy applications on ESF, you can follow the dedicated guides here.

If you need to build your native applications on this target hardware, please contact us to receive the latest toolchain.

Additional References

Detailed documentation on the features provided by the available services running on the ReliaCOR 40-13 can be found in the ESF official documentation, here.

Set up Your Hardware

Front Side Overview

Rear Side Overview

Setup Your AWS Account

Refer to the online AWS documentation at Set up your AWS Account. Follow the steps outlined in the sections below to create your account and a user and get started:

• Sign up for an AWS account and
• Create a user and grant permissions
• Open the AWS IoT console

Pay special attention to the Notes.

Create Resources in AWS IoT

Refer to the online AWS documentation at Create AWS IoT Resources.

Follow the steps outlined in these sections to provision resources for your device:

• Create an AWS IoT Policy
• Create a thing object

Pay special attention to the Notes.

Install the AWS CLI

To install the AWS CLI on your host machine, refer to the instructions at Installing the AWS CLI v2. Installing the CLI is needed to complete the instructions in this guide.

Once you have installed AWS CLI, configure it as per the instructions in this online guide. Set the appropriate values for Access key ID, Secret access key, and AWS Region. You can set Output format to "json" if you prefer.

Alternatively, you can use the AWS CloudShell to send the same AWS CLI commands directly from your browser.

AWS IoT Core Connection

This section provides a guide on connecting an ESF device to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT platform. This guide covers the usage of the ESF Cloud Connector for AWS IoT Core and other integrations with AWS IoT services like AWS Greengrass.

Prerequisites

In order to connect a device to AWS IoT Core, the following prerequisites are needed:

• An AWS IoT account
• A device with ESF version 3.3 or greater installed

Provision the Device with credentials

AWS IoT Core supports three types of provisioning:

• Single Thing Provisioning
• Just In Time Provisioning (JITP)
• Bulk Provisioning

You can find detailed instructions on Single Thing Provisioning in the ESF documentation website, here. JITP, Just In Time Registration and Bulk Provisioning require custom setup, usually involving a discussion with one of our Solution Architects. Please feel free to contact us if you need to enable JITP, JITR or Zero-Touch Provisioning on your Eurotech device.

Connectors Available

Two alternative ways can be used to connect to AWS IoT Core from ESF:

• Using the ESF Cloud Connector for AWS IoT Core (Requires ESF 6.1.0+)
• Configuring the Generic ESF MQTT Connector (Requires ESF 3.3.0+)

Both ESF Connectors support all three provisioning techniques.

Completing device provisioning is a prerequisite before an IoT device can successfully connect to AWS IoT Core.

Running the demo

ESF Wires can be leveraged to create a simple demo flow to test the connection to AWS IoT Core.

• Open the ESF Web Console, by accessing ESF from your browser.
• Login with your credentials (default credentials can be found in the ESF documentation)
• Navigate to the Cloud Connections section of ESF

Once your Eurotech device is connected to IoT Core, the relevant ESF Cloud Connector will look as follows:

• Click on "New Pub/Sub" and select a new AwsThingPublisher from the list. Assign it a name (e.g. demo.publisher)

A new Thing Publisher will be associated to this Cloud Connection. Select the newly created publisher and configure it with a unique topic (e.g. demo.topic)

• Navigate to the Wires section
• Add to the Canvas a Timer component and a Publisher component
• Link the components together
• Configure the Publisher component to link to the previously created AWSThingPublisher

• Apply the changes
• Navigate to IoT Core in the AWS Console
• Activate the MQTT test client
• subscribe to the topic configuired in the AWSThingPublisher (e.g. demo.topic)

AWS IoT Core will receive periodic timer events directly from the ESF Wire Graph.

Debugging

The Eurotech device default development configuration is meant to ease access and debugging.

• Ethernet Port 1 (7) is configured as DCHP Server with a IPv4 address of 172.16.0.1.
• Ethernet Port 2 (8) is configured as DHCP Client.

SSH protocol is enabled on standard port TCP 22 with, with guest user access. Password is the serial number of the unit, which you can find on the product label. To access the system, run:

ssh guest@<IP Address>

You can use the eth_journalctl command to access the aggregated logs of the system:

eth_journalctl -help

Use these links for detailed information on log management and debugging.

Depending on the order code used for your Eurotech device, the system might already be set up for production environments. Refer to the ESF Security introduction to know more about framework execution modalities.

Troubleshooting

For any issue you might face when working with ESF, feel free to contact the awesome Eclipse Kura community here. Chances are the issue you are facing has already been solved!

For detailed documentation, browse the ESF documentation.

If you need support for IoT Core, here it's a link to the FAQs.

And finally, should you need even more support, feel free to open a ticket on our ticketing system.