Medallion Touch Panel Computer for your ZigBee network
British Columbia-based embedded board and development services vendor Techsol announced a customizable touch-panel equipped single-board computer based on Linux. The wall-mounted, 4.6 x 3.7 x 1-inch TPC-43 comes with a 4.3-inch touchscreen with resolution 480×272. It’s powered by an undisclosed ARM-920T-based system-on-chip (SoC) clocked at 200MHz or 266MHz and has 64MB of “mobile SDRAM” and 64MB NAND Flash. The TPC-43 is based on Linux and supports both Qt and GTK+ for producing GUI.
Additionally the TPC-43 comes with zPoint Experimenter’s Kit to setup and control a ZigBee mesh network. As you may know ZigBee is a modern wireless technology for home automation. It’s a competitor of Z-Wave which looks more perspective for me.
In any case the price in $400 seems reasonable to such device. To have possibility play with ZigBee devices you should be 100 bucks additionally. So, the whole set will be $500.
This is a nice computer for a wide range. This is great for ubiquotious computing. I am going to implement a project that uses such devices embeded into tables. With a server-client architecture.
I am a Java developer. I have some experience in GTK+ too. I wonder if I can run Java on this computer. If I can (probably I can ) will I exprience any problems due too memory? Thanks…
Not sure about that because I don’t have device actually. But theoretically, it should be ok. Because it’s possible to run Java applications on mobile devices with small memory volume.