Enhancing Your Home Office Setup: The Benefits of Fanless Mini PCs

The world of technology is constantly evolving and Mini PCs are a perfect example of it. The bulky and loud desktop setups are a thing of the past. Industrial Fanless Mini PCs are the modern counterpart with a smaller form factor and low noise packing a punch of power. They have already started revolutionizing the work setups. So, if you are a digital creator, a space-conscious developer, or simply like a clean setup, then you are in for a treat. In this blog, we will peel the layers of benefits that Fanless Mini PCs offer. In addition, you will discover how they can enhance your home office setup.

What are Industrial Fanless Mini PCs

Before we get into the specifics of how a fanless Mini PC is the next best choice, you should know what it is. Basically, industrial-grade fanless Mini PCs are a solution designed to bear the deployment load and manage IoT workloads. Especially in challenging situations or high-traffic situations for connectivity, processing power, or storage.

Benefits of Industrial Fanless Mini PCs

Get ready to dump the bulky stations and mess of strangled wires. Because these Mini PCs are engineered to operate without a fan, the problems fans bring are wicked away. On top of that, it offers an array of benefits, which are as follows.

Small form factor and noiseless operation

Chunky and large PCs with fans require more space to circulate air and are actively cooled. Because fans have to spin frequently and often rapidly to circulate more air, large PCs tend to be loud. With PICOPC MNHO-081 and PICOPC MNHO-082 Industrial Fanless Mini PCs, you will never have to work in the noise. But, why does it not require a fan? These mini PCs are passively cooled through heat syncs and heat pipes which keeps them running smoothly without any fans. Moreover, this is the reason for its smaller form factor. Any extra space is eliminated because fans are no longer required. Thus, smaller fanless PCs can easily fit anywhere. Besides, they are easy to move and set up. These features make them a great choice for a compact but powerful home office setup.

Minimal downtime

Downtimes cost a lot of damage, and fans are the weak link which causes breakages. Especially in dusty environments fans tend to bring in dust. In return, this causes component overheating, clogging, and damage. Thus, eventually, it results in downtime. However, if you go with the MNHO-082 Industrial Fanless Mini PC you never have to face downtime because of the environment and working conditions. The MNHO-082 can easily handle heavy workloads and constantly output peak performance due to its 4.60 quad-core processing and smart cache features. On top, the concept of clogging and overheating is out of the question.

Higher MTBF

MTBF is the mean time between failures, or simply put, for how long the PC can work between breakdowns. PCs with fans are less resilient to vibrations and failures, which makes them unfit for environments like manufacturing lines. On the other hand, the MNHO-081 and 082 fanless PCs cover all aspects. Its aluminium alloy is dustproof which makes them perfect for any environment. They come equipped with a wide range of ethernet and wireless network support for secure and stable connection with fast data encryption. Moreover, these fanless PCs do not require cleaning and maintenance increasing uptime. 

Lower power and operation costs

So fanned computers consume more power because of the constant need for cooling. In addition, they require maintenance from time to time increasing operational costs. On the contrary, an industrial Fanless Mini PC is free from such issues. Besides, both MNHO-081 and 082 are highly energy-efficient operating on low energy because of their efficient CPUs and passive cooling technology. So, you can run the home office setup without worrying about the energy bill.

PICOPC’s Industrial Fanless Mini PC’s

Home office setups to Point of sales systems with diverse needs can benefit from Industrial Fanless Mini PCs. The MNHO-081 and MNHO-082 fanless mini PCs particularly outshine fan-based PCs in an industrial environment where air and dust particles clog the system. They feature low noise and operational cost, due to the aluminum dustproof alloy. One-piece rugged aluminium alloy forms the chassis of these fanless PCs making them durable. The fanless design eliminates all noise for peaceful working conditions and improves portability due to its compact size. Strategically designed copper piping is for passive efficient cooling and throughout optimal performance sets these in a class of their own. So, you can perform networking, operational, and industrial tasks without any hindrance at full power. 

These mini PCs offer lower power and operational costs due to energy-efficient CPUs. Easy connectivity and high security with Gigabit RJ45 Ethernet and WiFi 6 network support. Quick HD display and 4K connectivity support are a few features that make these fanless mini PCs the optimal choice for your home office setup. Our industrial fanless Mini PC supports wireless networks and has multiple network connection options as well. Besides, these can support various and latest OS like Windows, Linux etc. Experience the power and speed with the latest memory and storage components. Protect your business and workflow with seamless, energy-efficient, reliable, and completely fanless Mini PCs. 

When it comes to choosing a PC for industrial and manufacturing processes fanless Mini PCs are the best. And when it comes to buying one, PICOPC IS the go-to place for top-notch and high-quality networking, storage, and cybersecurity products at competitive prices. Besides, you get to choose from an array of options. If you have any questions or want help selecting a suitable Mini PC, then contact us and we will be more than happy to assist.

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SD-WAN include 5G and WIFI 6

5G and SD-WAN as a pair make ideal network connectivity options for branch offices and Work from home employees.

SD-WAN combines Multiple physical WAN links into one logical network and provides traffic prioritization to accelerate the performance of applications that are deployed in internal data centres and in the cloud.

WAN services market was replaced by cellular wireless services. 5G offers data services equal to or faster than wired WAN service options, e.g. MPLS or Internet Broadband.

5G services offer new features to enterprise IT teams, which include speed over 1GB, low latency, and network segmentation. Some future improvements will be network slicing requiring a new wireless core system. Existing 5G networks offer equal and better performance than comparable wired internet broadband offerings.

5G networks deliver speeds over 150 Mbps, which is sufficient for branch office requirements. In near future, 5G radio deployment will drive bandwidth capabilities beyond 1GB with low latency. This will provide cellular wireless capacity to branch WAN requirements.

Role of SD-WAN in 5G networks

SD-WAN combines with fast cellular wireless connectivity, It enables a new WAN architecture for enterprises with a large number of employees in hybrid or permanent work from home settings.

SD-WAN introduces a new wireless service that replaced existing wired services.  LTE is already used by organizations at branch locations e.g., retail stores and restaurants. 

Cellular wireless delivers an additional WAN connectivity option to organizations with remote branch offices or in WFH scenarios. 5G services are driving new unlimited data plan options to organizations that require higher bandwidth at remote work locations with fixed budgets.

Benefits of using SD-WAN and 5G together

• SD-WAN has become standard technology, organisations are using multiple WAN links. It improves the security of links and higher performance, which increases WAN bandwidth capacity at a reasonable price.
• SD-WAN suppliers introduce software-defined branch services, they can offer end-to-end traffic visibility from device to LAN to WAN to cloud  
• SD-WAN technology continues to advance its breadth of functionality as well as its native security and traffic management.
• High speed 5G provides organizations with a WAN option to add to their SD-WAN-driven architecture. 5G links are simple and provide link diversity to protect against cable cuts such as backhoe-caused outages.
• 5G brings a cableless option that can be easily purchased, deployed and managed.
• The benefit of SD-MAN is the simple management of multiple links for redundancy, load balancing and traffic segmentation. While professionals can see 5G as WAN transport.

SD-WAN is becoming attractive because it enables hybrid WAN. It reduces expensive wired circuits and gives less costly bandwidth-rich internet connections. With 4G LTE and 5G services to the mix, IT leaders gain wireless links and some places replace existing wired services.

4G and 5G with in-house WIFI provide secure high-speed links, from IoT devices to the LAN, WAN and Cloud. such connections can be facilitated by SD-Branch solutions. It will combine SD-WAN, routing, integrated security and LAN/WiFI functions that will be managed centrally. SD-WAN suppliers provide SD-Branch Solutions for end-to-end traffic visibility.

Pondesk had committed its valuable resources to further developing its advanced network appliances and SD-WAN hardware solution. Because of these efforts, the PICOPC 1U rackmount server NSHO-002 had developed as a perfect service/network machine for most IoT business networking applications. It supports WiFi 6, 4G and 5G. You can add 4G/5G LTE failover to make sure your internet connection never goes down again.

WiFi 6 will be able to support a greater number of devices at the same time without facing any network congestion issues. 

The integration of SD-WAN and WiFi 6 can enable edge computing, IoT, and complete visibility of the traffic at the branch. The combination of wifi with SD-WAN will give more cost-effective options but will also lead to a surge in edge computing.

The coming year will see the availability of more WiFi 6 access points and will witness a greater use of the technology to enable SD-WAN.

Pondesk PICOPC MNHO-084,  PICOPC MNHO-085, and PICOPC MNHO-086 support wireless networks with internal USB AC Wi-Fi along with WiFi 6 and 4G LTE. They have Intel® AES-NI for secure and fast data encryption and decryption and  Intel® SGX  for trusted execution protection for applications’ sensitive routines and data

Pondesk PICOPC not only provides products with high reliability but also networking appliances and products with the best scalability and manageability in the industry. 

Pondesk  is your best choice for building servers and workstations in today’s industrial IoT environment

Are you looking after securing your business with Firewall?

Almost a million malware threats are released in the web environment every day. This shows the real importance of securing the most critical business data with the firewall. With Firewall not all businesses would afford to keep the expertise on the site whereas they would opt for the solution which offers them assistance in setting it up and provides regular support time to time to make sure all the upgrades are being made and remain secured against ever-growing threats from the intruders.

Key criteria would play a key role in making the right decision about the best firewall for your business:

• Network accessibility: if you block too much incoming traffic, there is a good chance that you may miss some of the important communication coming to your business. How much do you want to block or allow by always analyzing and recommending by considering incoming traffic would?

 

• Business size: Small business should go for small office, home office solution which is small in easy and easy to configure. Large companies would require an enterprise level. If your business is growing rapidly, that is also a key part in investing right now with future to avoid high investment.

 

• Remote working: This information is very important as in today’s world, many companies offer their employees remote working and more flexibility. Are they allowed to access everything or certain information would decide the risk to your systems?

 

If you think that you are looking for firewall solution for your business, Pondesk can help you and recommend you the best suitable option to satisfy your immediate needs with future considerations.

Intel® E3845 4 LAN 1 COM AES-NI 4G Fanless Firewall Router

8 LAN 10Gig Fiber SFP+ 4G NGFW Firewall 1U Rackmount Server

Intel J1900 4 LAN HD Dual Display 4G Fanless Firewall Router

Intel 3855U 6 LAN 1 COM WiFi 4G Firewall 1U Rackmount Server

Internet of things & Automation for all industries!

Development of the Internet of things is believed to be one of the biggest development for the modern industrial revolution. Companies with higher aspiration want to drive bigger market share with creativity and marketing leading innovations into the system and machines. Internet of things has made it possible to drive more efficiently with fewer efforts at an affordable price. Devices and instruments are being made to be very easy to adapt to the internet of things to provide seamless integration with existing systems. Demand is more seen across small to medium organization to focus on driving automation where research companies have increased their focus to developing things can make huge differences in day to day task in small scale industries.

Business has changed its focus on having more valued and connected devices in their setup. Devices, platforms, systems, software are developed nowadays with the great focus being put into consideration that they should be IoT ready and adaptive. More flexible applications and instruments are, the better companies will approach to reduce long term savings.

Applications in healthcare, home automation, buildings, and construction are leading the other industries in getting more connectivity of devices through the Internet of things. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are offering great automation benefits in the manufacturing sector. Analyzing a huge amount of data to help developed predictive modeling helps the car manufacturing sector.

All the above benefits are great but the development of new technology drives more challenges to provide high-end security as with more devices connected, the world would be easier to provide a gateway to cyber attacks, data privacy, and data security.

At Pondesk, we offer all our devices to easily connect with your existing system and are ready with the Internet of things built into our instruments.

 

Strong Firewall is a must for businesses!

2017 saw 45% increases in identity theft over 2016. Hacking was one of the most commonly used methods in the reported breaches which includes phishing, malware, and skimming. More than 70% of the US-based companies have accepted that they have experienced a breach in their network or systems. Cost of such attacks are averaging around $4m for big companies, small companies can’t even think of surviving if they have to find such big money if they become a victim of the breach. We are getting toward wearable and connected devices which poses more threats of becoming a victim in such open world which will provide more options for criminals to get access to the most critical information of your clients, employees and businesses.

 

Top reasons to get a firewall:

•  The firewall acts as the first point of defense against the unknown threats coming to your systems and asset of your businesses.
• Stop accessing not secured websites to your internal users from being exposed to unknown territories.
• The firewall will monitor traffic coming in and going out and set the network bandwidth limit to make sure videos, images, music and software downloads will keep the higher allocation of bandwidth for business uses.
• The firewall will block viruses, worms, spam. A firewall allows you to list out applications to make sure only legal software can be downloaded.
• A firewall can provide the site to site connectivity using a virtual private network (VPN). This will help you to access network file and other important data using fully secured connection.

industrial PCs evolution!

Industrial PCs are mainly used for process control or data acquisition. Sometimes their sole purpose is to be the front end of the other connected computer when they work together in a distributed processing environment. Industrial PCs offer is different than our day to day use of laptops and computers as they are developed based on the industrial needs, reliability, compatibility and expansion options for helping industries in medium to long term future.

Key features of Industrial PCs:

1. 8^th generation Intel quad-core processor with 8 MB cache * Intel AES-NI for secure and faster data encryption and decryption.
2. Fanless aluminum alloy, small and less occupancy of the space for controlling the computing operations, process automation and capable of managing a good number of communication and networking tasks.
3. Ready for the Internet of things
4. Great energy efficiency with only 10W power consumption
5. Compatible with all major operating systems such as Windows/Linux.
6. Manage to support high range and low range temperature to work perfectly in the industrial environment.
7. Great heat dissipation to keep the temperature under control of a processor and improve work efficiency with hardly any noise disturbance.

 

Opportunities with IoT for SMEs

The Internet has been with us for several years at homes and offices connected using devices. We have been always connected with the world using internet devices but we have started seeing more benefits as a consumer recently since the emergence of the Internet of things (IoT).

Customers have started getting access to IoT in the form of controlling central heating using mobile devices or accessing their physical fitness data using smartwatches. IoT has helped us to transform our normal physical devices into smart devices since they started sending vital information or data to the computers for analyzing and helping to get better in our daily life.

2019 is believed to be the year for small to medium businesses where infrastructure will improve using smart technology and wireless network speed. This will bring new devices such as tractors and vending machines into the connected world to send us information using sensors and beams. With a growth in the technology and better infrastructure cost of the IoT is coming down gradually to make it affordable to the small business in getting better with technology transformation.

It becomes very difficult for businesses to take the decision to invest in the technology where it is still maturing in the world and benefits are not clearly communicated.  At Pondesk, all of our devices are developed with built-in IoT technology to go hand in hand with the industry.

 

Connected & Secured is the way forward!

Businesses are adapting fast to the “Connected” environment where they connect with their partners, employees, customers and other systems using mobility, Internet of things and cloud services. Business data are accessible through Internet-connected devices but that brings a great challenge to all of us how can we make sure what technology upgrades are adding into our businesses are not causing issues with securities?

Most of the businesses are aware of that they would require firewall but does not know where to start or what to look for when they are in the market to purchase firewall? Should they go for a hardware or software firewall? Will it be easy to use and configure? Will it be scalable if the business expands?

Pondesk offers many great options to solve all the above problems. Our instruments are readily equipped to handle many networking and communication tasks. Offering great performance and great for VPN, connect multiple LAN or multiple WLAN with configuring and securing each segment to improve security and configurations.

 

Our instruments are compatible with all major operating systems like Windows 7/8/10 & Linux. It offers great industrial graded performance and can be used in traffic control, network security management, virtual private networks, and network firewalls.

IoT will make businesses even better!

In 2015, we had around 15 billion devices which were connected using the Internet of things (IoT). The industry is expecting to double by 2020 which means we will have around 30 billion connected devices. Not only devices but investing in the IoT technology will be in trillions. On an average, every year companies are increasing 15% compound spending.

Wearable devices, connected cars, and many more sensors will make life easier for businesses to get better with their decision making when they will have IoT technology injected into their business decisions. Is it just for big companies due to cost or can small companies afford as well?
Assistant is offering a great way to automate day to day stuff, smart locks and connected cameras offering better security solutions, march towards smart offices to use space and electricity more effectively, smart transport solutions for tracking shipment and packages with accurate information would help businesses to focus on keep improving day to day life.
Pondesk devices are ready for IoT functionality to offer you great assistant and support to make business decisions and process faster and better.

 

 

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5 steps to Securing Your IoT Devices

The issue is that the lack of security within the IoT realm is an issue and everyone knows these problems are down to poorly secured IoT devices.  The ability to enter an access point will leave users in a vulnerable state regardless whether they protect themselves against cyber crimes they will fall victim to pray.  The need for users to secure the perimeter of their security base in accordance to protecting themselves is important and ,anyone poses a cyber threat.  These steps provide you with a chance to secure your IoT device.

Step 1- avoid connection to your devices directly to the internet rather be safe and use a firewall. There are key issues with this when users choose to keep their firewall in front. The issue is most IoT products are not designed to have security in mind and these device over a public internet base could cause users vulnerable attack and cause issues that may be detrimental to your network gaining access to personal information keep your IoT devices behind the firewall as best you can

Step 2- Use complex password that will leave you in a secure position this is very important to create something that is not memorable. Keep these passwords secure and in a safe place always.

Step 3- Updated your firmware make sure that the hardware is updated often, and your security updates are frequent. In regards, to your firewall make sure your firmware is updated contact your O/S for any updates.

Step-4 The issue for IoT devices is Peer to Peer (P2P) capability either installs on their device or maybe build in this aspect will be problematic for your security and research shown that they can be reachable even through a firewall remotely over the Internet because they’re configured to continuously find ways to connect to a global, shared network so that people can access them remotely in the long term please bare this in mind and find solutions that can combat this problem and issues.

 

Step 5- The cost of IoT device various but depend on the purpose may vary but, one thing take note of the cheaper product might not be better and the correlation between price and security, has shown that devices that tend to be towards lower range are most likely to be the most accessible to cyber criminals and some device might have malicious ware already contained on the device. The vendors for these affordable devices might lack on the support and updates for firmware of these devices.

 

The conclusion to this article shell demonstrate the various steps to protect yourself whatever device you use in the Internet of Things.