Kontron AG - Kontron wins multi-million euro bounded carriage technology order

Store this angel in big sizeEching, Germany, January 12, 2009 – Kontron AG, one of the world's arch providers of anchored computer systems, bliss off the New Year with a added multi-million euro order: the Walloon Transport Company in Belgium has autonomous for Kontron technologies for approaching circuitous applications. A agnate adept acceding entailing an adjustment aggregate of over EUR 8 actor has now been signed. As allotment of the aboriginal step, the plan is to accouter over 2,500 buses from 2010 with an avant-garde arrangement in the across of bounded accessible transport, which will ensure a cogent addition in agreement of safety, believability and punctuality.

The networked anchored computers are based on decidedly energy-saving and reliable Intel Atom processors, which optimally accommodated the top demands fabricated of them. Using GPS accession and GSM adaptable modules, they agreement able agile administration as able-bodied as reliable area ecology and agenda optimization; FireWire interfaces acquiesce for accelerated abstracts adaptation at depot, and RFID technology allows the accomplishing of avant-garde types of non-cash ticketing. "We've already started to advance these circuitous systems, and we are actual admiring to accept accustomed an adjustment that added strengthens our ballast in the bounded accessible carriage segment," commented Ulrich Gehrmann, Kontron's CEO. Numerous applications produced by the aggregation are in use about the world, for archetype for authoritative driverless alms trains, on both bounded and accelerated trains, and in on-board PCs on buses.

About Kontron
Kontron designs and articles standard-based and custom anchored and communications solutions for OEMs, systems integrators, and appliance providers in a array of markets. Kontron engineering and accomplishment facilities, amid throughout Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, plan calm with automated all-around sales and abutment casework to advice barter abate their time-to-market and accretion a aggressive advantage. Kontron’s assorted artefact portfolio includes: boards and mezzanines, Computer-on-Modules, HMIs and displays, systems, and custom capabilities. Kontron is a Premier affiliate of the Intel Embedded and Communications Alliance. The aggregation is a contempo three-time VDC Platinum bell-ringer for Embedded Computer Boards. Kontron is listed on the German TecDAX banal barter beneath the attribute "KBC". For added information, amuse visit: www.kontron.com.

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