OnLogic – Driving Rugged Infrastructure at the Edge
OnLogic capped Edge Field Day 3, and they brought a fantastic story to the event. Lisa Groeneveld and her team described how OnLogic is not the typical VC-funded startup. They are a 20+ year old company headquartered in Burlington, Vermont and led by a husband and wife team that are co-founders of the firm.
They drive infrastructure anywhere – delivering industrial computers, rugged computers, panel PCs, and edge servers to a wide variety of edge deployment use cases.
They specialize in expert technical consultation and built-to-order solutions. They listen to their customers and work to deliver solutions that meet what customers require most. The team shared details of the actual infrastructure. Starting with the far edge, they break down infrastructure requirements as devices and edge servers, and they look at landing infrastructure in these environments to meet temp, dust, space, and vibration realities that exist in these environments.
To tell the story of their infrastructure, the team utilized a series of deployment examples including agriculture. OnLogic’s customer sought foundational compute for robotic food harvesting. Enter the Karbon 800 series computer offering a fanless design, extended temperature range, and military grade shock and vibration tolerance. This computer runs an embedded Intel i9 processor and GPU expansion ports for AI acceleration and comes in three configuration options. The Karbon fueled the robotic solution the customer required to improve crop yields and save costs.
The team shared an example in the mining sector with a partner called Flasheye. Flasheye was seeking to tap visualization to reduce belt downtime to mining operations in horrifically rugged environments. Their customer operated a mine in Northern Sweden whose belt experienced spillage and required human intervention increasing safety risk. With the Flasheye solution, powered by an OnLogic Karbon 400 series platform. This computer can drive uptime up to -40-degree temps with an efficient Atom processor and flexible I/O that supported the visualization integration desired by the customer.
The conversation next turned to a steel mill use case where intense heat and grime and other particulate are a constant challenge. The customer, Steel Dynamics, sought to deliver monitoring of the fabrication environment. Enter the OnLogic Tacton TC401, an all in one panel PC, PCs that are built into the panels of industrial equipment. This PC operates from temperatures between -20C to 70C and features Intel 12th Gen CPU with a ModBay I/O expander supporting wifi and cellular connectivity.
The team rounded out use cases with a residential application, more specifically in hi-rise elevator control. Nantum AI brought OnLogic a challenge for an interesting use case – how to deliver AI control to elevators to predict a power outage and avoid stranding people on elevators. Enter the Helix Industrial Edge Computer featuring a 10th-12th Gen Intel embedded Core processor, solid state design, and operating temps between 0C-50C. The Helix offers slightly less ruggedness than the other solutions mentioned making it perfect for a building deployment.
Finally, the team walked us through their partners. This started with Intel, which was no surprise given the continuous refrain of Intel processors across their fleet. While processors begin the collaboration, OnLogic is also tapping the OpenVino toolkit to optimize software for their targeted solutions. The depth of this partnership, given my own personal history, comes as no surprise. Intel has invested deeply in embedded, IoT, and edge optimization including ruggedization of long-life CPUs. OnLogic’s depth of collaboration extends to AWS. OnLogic is providing infrastructure for AWS Greengrass. The company also extended their collaboration discussion with software providers RedHat, Avassa, and GuiseAI.
What’s the TechArena take? If I ever head back to industry, OnLogic represents the type of culture I’d want to be a part of. This company is led with integrity, and my guess is that extends to customer and partner relationships. But beyond that, they deliver the meat and potatoes of what is required at the edge – computing tailor designed for rugged environments with the core capabilities needed to ensure long life, continued uptime, and feature options to fuel desired workloads. They’ve built a reputation for both broad product configurability as well as trusted reliability. We expect their business to continue its growth path as edge use cases advance.
OnLogic capped Edge Field Day 3, and they brought a fantastic story to the event. Lisa Groeneveld and her team described how OnLogic is not the typical VC-funded startup. They are a 20+ year old company headquartered in Burlington, Vermont and led by a husband and wife team that are co-founders of the firm.
They drive infrastructure anywhere – delivering industrial computers, rugged computers, panel PCs, and edge servers to a wide variety of edge deployment use cases.
They specialize in expert technical consultation and built-to-order solutions. They listen to their customers and work to deliver solutions that meet what customers require most. The team shared details of the actual infrastructure. Starting with the far edge, they break down infrastructure requirements as devices and edge servers, and they look at landing infrastructure in these environments to meet temp, dust, space, and vibration realities that exist in these environments.
To tell the story of their infrastructure, the team utilized a series of deployment examples including agriculture. OnLogic’s customer sought foundational compute for robotic food harvesting. Enter the Karbon 800 series computer offering a fanless design, extended temperature range, and military grade shock and vibration tolerance. This computer runs an embedded Intel i9 processor and GPU expansion ports for AI acceleration and comes in three configuration options. The Karbon fueled the robotic solution the customer required to improve crop yields and save costs.
The team shared an example in the mining sector with a partner called Flasheye. Flasheye was seeking to tap visualization to reduce belt downtime to mining operations in horrifically rugged environments. Their customer operated a mine in Northern Sweden whose belt experienced spillage and required human intervention increasing safety risk. With the Flasheye solution, powered by an OnLogic Karbon 400 series platform. This computer can drive uptime up to -40-degree temps with an efficient Atom processor and flexible I/O that supported the visualization integration desired by the customer.
The conversation next turned to a steel mill use case where intense heat and grime and other particulate are a constant challenge. The customer, Steel Dynamics, sought to deliver monitoring of the fabrication environment. Enter the OnLogic Tacton TC401, an all in one panel PC, PCs that are built into the panels of industrial equipment. This PC operates from temperatures between -20C to 70C and features Intel 12th Gen CPU with a ModBay I/O expander supporting wifi and cellular connectivity.
The team rounded out use cases with a residential application, more specifically in hi-rise elevator control. Nantum AI brought OnLogic a challenge for an interesting use case – how to deliver AI control to elevators to predict a power outage and avoid stranding people on elevators. Enter the Helix Industrial Edge Computer featuring a 10th-12th Gen Intel embedded Core processor, solid state design, and operating temps between 0C-50C. The Helix offers slightly less ruggedness than the other solutions mentioned making it perfect for a building deployment.
Finally, the team walked us through their partners. This started with Intel, which was no surprise given the continuous refrain of Intel processors across their fleet. While processors begin the collaboration, OnLogic is also tapping the OpenVino toolkit to optimize software for their targeted solutions. The depth of this partnership, given my own personal history, comes as no surprise. Intel has invested deeply in embedded, IoT, and edge optimization including ruggedization of long-life CPUs. OnLogic’s depth of collaboration extends to AWS. OnLogic is providing infrastructure for AWS Greengrass. The company also extended their collaboration discussion with software providers RedHat, Avassa, and GuiseAI.
What’s the TechArena take? If I ever head back to industry, OnLogic represents the type of culture I’d want to be a part of. This company is led with integrity, and my guess is that extends to customer and partner relationships. But beyond that, they deliver the meat and potatoes of what is required at the edge – computing tailor designed for rugged environments with the core capabilities needed to ensure long life, continued uptime, and feature options to fuel desired workloads. They’ve built a reputation for both broad product configurability as well as trusted reliability. We expect their business to continue its growth path as edge use cases advance.
