During the traditional era when there was no internet connection, to ensure that the devices deployed in different environments were normal, enterprises had to send employees to each website for routine inspection, maintenance, and component replacement regularly. If problems occurred during non-inspection times, the abnormalities usually could not be discovered first handedly and be eliminated, losing precious time and causing operating loss. Nowadays where everything is connected, dynamic environmental monitoring systems can explain the operating status of enterprise monitoring systems all year round; not only can on-site data be acquired in real-time, early warnings and immediate responses can also be achieved, providing more comprehensive and efficient management practices for enterprises.

Nuvoton NUC980 provides multiple interfaces for dynamic environmental monitoring devices, including two 10/100 Mbps network ports to achieve management of internal and external network segments, multiple serial ports, CAN bus, I2C, SPI, ADC, USB main control and other peripheral interfaces, realizing mutual communication with other subsystems. Not only is there Ethernet to achieve remote control, but the software package also supports the wireless modules from different manufacturers with different specifications. Remote wireless communication can achieve controlling and receiving even in environments that are difficult for workers to reach. Typical usage scenarios and products are as shown below:

Power system equipment monitoring system

Network base station equipment monitoring system

Not only are there many interfaces and peripherals that allow the NUC980 series to be connected to different sensors and subsystems, the NUC980DR41Y with the LQFP 64 pin package and 16MB DRAM built-in also provides a more practical selection for developers with a limited size or only requires minimal systems.

Also, the entire NUC980 series has hardware encryption and decryption engines with AES-256 symmetric algorithm, RSA-2048, and ECC-256 asymmetric algorithms, and SHA-512 has an algorithm built-in, in which the AES-256 algorithm can be used for the encryption of communication data between two devices, and industry’s leading RSA-2048 algorithm can achieve operation authorization between devices through the exchange of public or private keys, and the SHA-512 algorithm can match code integrities to prevent codes from being tampered with. Under the IoT trend where various productions or user data are becoming increasingly important, how to keep data confidential will become an issue that needs to be faced in the future.

 With the increase in labor and resource costs, using smart management practices can create profit for enterprises; through a long-term accumulation of data, there are opportunities to predict error occurrences and respond quickly to reduce possible big losses; further analyzing of data may even create more value. Environmental monitoring units can be extended and applied to fields including rack servo system monitoring, factory machine monitoring, agricultural environment recording, power data collection, equipment power, and network management, etc. For information on the NUC980 screen-less series and the NUC970 series with screens, please visit the website www.nuvoton.com