ReliaCOR 44-11

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Overview

The ReliaCOR 44-11 is a versatile platform that offers a very balanced combination of computational performance, storage capacity and network bandwidth for workloads that include data acquisition and fusion, AI inference and data logging.

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 44-11 can be deployed in dense installation; an optional mounting accessory further increases its versatility. User-serviceable filters offer the convenience of protection from airborne pollutants, such as dust and particulate, which are often found in industrial applications.

The ReliaCOR 44-11 features a top-of-line Intel Core i7 CPU, to deliver power efficient computational crunch, and provides AI acceleration thanks to a high-end NVIDIA® A2 GPU. Connection to the factory floor IP network and sensors is enabled by two 10GbE and two GbE interfaces: use cases requiring fieldbus interfaces towards assets (such as CAN/ CAN-FD, isolated RS-232/422/485) are optionally available as a professional service.

The ReliaCOR 44-11 is also a capable storage server, supporting two removable bays for 2.5″ SATA drives in RAID 0/1 configurations to provide high speed data recording and to offer extra protection to valuable information.

The ReliaCOR 44-11 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) (separately available here), enabling advanced diagnostics, provisioning, and full remote device access and management.

Hardware Description

Datasheet

• ReliaCOR 44-11 Datasheet

Standard Kit Contents

Depending on the order code, you will receive the ReliaCOR 44-11 ready to be powered on with no additional hardware. If you ordered a DevKit, you will also receive a Power Supply for your region, antennas for WiFi and Cellular connectivity and a Ethernet Cat 5 cable. Visit the product page for info on ordering codes.

• ReliaCOR 44-11 Web page

Custom Configuration

Eurotech configuration management service allows fine tuning the ReliaCOR 44-11 to meet and exceed your project requirements; Examples of personalized configuration include customer branding (with logo and custom colors) and can go to deep customization with a range of options for project specific requirements (such as frame grabbers, choice of internal components, etc.): call us for more information on configuration management options.

Set up Your Development Environment

Operating System

Your ReliaCOR 44-11 runs Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Tools Installation

The ReliaCOR 44-11 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 44-11 can be found in the ESF official documentation, here.

Set up Your Hardware

Front Panel Overview

Control Panel Overview

Interfaces Panel Overview

Rear Panel 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.

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 ReliaCOR 44-11.

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 the ReliaCOR 44-11 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 ReliaCOR 44-11 default development configuration is meant to ease access to the system 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 ReliaCOR 44-11, 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 Greengrass, 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, here.