• Kontron Technology India Private Limited

Chassis Monitoring Board

Kontron Technology India Pvt Ltd offers a Chassis Monitoring Board (CMB), recently selected as an Editor’s Choice product by Military Embedded Systems Magazine. The CMB is designed as an effective VME and VPX system condition monitoring and management unit that enables improved reliability and availability of mission-critical COTS applications. It is a unified solution for VPX and VME systems that streamlines system monitoring and management of rugged applications. The Kontron CMB centralises out-of-band monitoring and management of installed boards and relevant system parameters such as temperature, airflow and power supply in mission-critical COTS systems with high demands on reliability, availability and ruggedness. The Kontron CMB is currently deployed in a VME chassis used for a satellite navigation system program, which has resulted in optimised application development and improved Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The new CMB is the synthesis of Kontron's experience in delivering highly available (99.999%+ uptime) telco systems with the expertise of 20 years of rugged embedded computing expertise. Instead of relying solely on chipset and firmware implemented management features, the Kontron CMB uses the proven and tested approach of an additional monitoring hardware. This helps OEMs to optimize system availability since a reset or system crash does not influence the crucial monitoring and management solution. Additionally, the Kontron CMB allows customers to add application-dependant information to the managed data and is designed for multi-board and multi-vendor environments.