INDUSTRIES
Utilities
Animal Systems have been working with companies who provide,
- Power transmission solutions
- Control and automation systems
- Monitoring
AS engineers developed a 4U Industrial Computer platform that could be configured to suit a number of different applications – the installation of multi monitor cards for control systems or intelligent serial I/O cards for down stream automation devices.
It was imperative that the systems were identical every time as the wrong installation position of serial card made the I.P addresses change. Also the unit had to be qualified with the latest Automation software. So even a BIOS change could not be tolerated. The units also needed to be powered by 110VDC. This needed a modification to the power supply which AS undertook. The unit was also installed near heavy switch gear and high voltage electrical gear. So EMC and vibration were critical. AS designed a special anti-vibration mount for this project.
In addition to the customised configuration the machines were also required to reflect the global brand of the company. This meant having the machines sprayed in the corporate colours with the company logo silk screened on the font panel.
- Power station and water treatment control systems-monitoring and operations.
- Control room IT.
- Switching control systems
Oil & Gas and offshore
AS work with various off shore and Oil and Gas companies. Providing rugged IT , bespoke design servers and Edge solutions. AS are a Lenovo OEM and a HP OEM providing custom servers and OEM roadmap solutions not available on the channel market. This with our Microsoft embedded membership helps provide a locked down and secure platform.
Transport
Animal provides a full range of rugged embedded computing systems particularly suited for rolling stock applications covering in-vehicle computing, wayside monitoring, Advanced Driver Assistance Sysyem (ADAS), in-vehicle surveillance, online diagnostics, Passenger Information System (PIS), Media and Entertainment System (MES), mobile in-vehicle communication, pantograph inspection and any AIoT/Industry 4.0 applications in harsh environments.
- Customer Information Systems (Multi Monitor)
- Data acquisition.
- Network Control Rooms
- Voice Recording
Telecommunications
AS provide a customised 1U,2U and 4U server for use as a Unified Messaging/ IVR platform.
The prime driver with this project was to reduce the amount of work carried out by the customer in terms of purchasing, integration and support. AS worked extremely closely with their engineers to not only develop a hardware platform but to also document a very customised installation of Windows Server.
Over the past two years the relationship between customer and supplier has developed and AS now provide a totally customised package :
- Fully branded platform
- Fully tested and configured buffer stock
- Custom packaging
- On site support
- Voice recognition
- Unified messaging
- Voice messaging
- Billing systems
- Call centres
- Satellite base stations
Security & Emergency Services
A Vehicle Computing system for ANPR and Video survielance with dedicated design and ultimate for strict in-vehicle environments to secure the tasks in each trip. It involves rugged reliability, mobile computing performance, mobile communication availability, computer circuit protection, power management, system integration, capacity of storage, critical operating environments, safety validations, friendly user interface and maintenance efforts. Boosted by advanced CPU and chipset solution, fanless design for max -40°C to 85°C operation, multiple external SIM card sockets for WiFi 6, 5G, 4G/LTE, 3G/GPRS or UMTS wireless communication, powered PoE+ LAN for video capture, CAN Bus for in-vehicle system management, multiple SSD/HDD with RAID data protection, rugged X-coded/A-coded M12 connectors, Ignition Power Control, Surge Protection, up to 6V to 160V wide range power input, E13, EN50155 & EN50121 certified, Vecow rugged vehicle computing system is powerful & high-reliable engine for real-time in-vehicle embedded applications.
- CCTV
- Maritime security-vessel tracking
- Airport security
- Access control systems
- Police, Fire and Ambulance
- In-Vehicle
Defence
AS work in many Defence arena’s with some of the top tier military contractors.
- C4ISR
- C-UAS
- Tactical Data Links
- Field deployed Failover rugged servers
- Communications
- Cybersecurity
AS have a very close relationship with various manufacturers in industrial and rugged solutions . This relationship provides Animal Systems with direct links to their engineers for support and also first hand information with regard to product changes and improvements. Also worldwide warranties and support
- Ruggedised Server & Edge platforms
- Embedded computer systems
- Command & Control Systems
- COTS Systems
- 5-7 year revision control
- Rugged Mobile platforms
- HP, Lenovo OEM
Automation
Machine vision systems are performance-driven computing engines for mission critical real time AI inspection at the Edge. Featuring multiple super speed 10G USB 3.2 Gen 2 connections for video capture, multiple 10G/1G GigE LAN ports support IP cameras, IEEE 802.3at PoE+ (25.5W/48V) for simpler infrastructure requirements in limited operation space, OpenVINO/CUDA Core supported for AI computing, optional Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Optical Character Verification (OCV) and Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) AI inspection training models embedded, machine vision systems are your proficient solution for any computer vision applications for machine learning, deep learning and any edge AI computing for inspection.
- Multi I/O
- Vision systems
- Process and control systems
- SCADA control
Broadcasting
AS work with various customers in the Broadcast field. From outside broadcast vehicles to in house automation.
Bespoke solutions were produced for specific requirements.
- Outside broadcast
- Cluster and Render Servers
- Edge computing
- High end failover servers
- Automation solutions
- Bespoke Control Solutions for Stage and Concerts
- Video Servers
Financial Services
AS work very closely with a company well respected in the financial market – their products provides voice & video solutions to trading rooms and banks throughout the world.
We provided them with a 4U platform that was almost entirely specified by their own engineers. In order to give them continuity with their legacy platforms they specified the full Server components with a detailed OS configuration.
- Multi Monitor for trading rooms
- Conferencing systems
- Security systems
- Number crunching clusters
- Multi I/O and COMMS