Made by Rutronik: Innovation and Future DNA

Sensorfusion is the future and the basis of Artificial Intelligence. With the new Adapter Board RAB7 – Sensorfusion, you can benefit from state-of-the-art sensors. Compared to our first Adapter Board RAB1 for Sensorfusion, the RAB7 provides you with all next generation sensors from our suppliers. Specifically, the RAB7 is an Arduino shield adapter for environmental and inertial sensors from Infineon, Sensirion, and Bosch. Due to the Arduino interface, the Adapter Board RAB7 is easy to combine with other Base Boards and Adapter Boards from Rutronik System Solutions.

LEDs play a key role in creating efficient, adaptive and sustainable manufacturing environments and state-of-the-art automotive interior and ambient lightning applications. However, challenges such as energy efficiency, integration with IoT, and maintaining high performance under varying conditions are demanding reliable LED solutions. The Adapter Board RAB5 features the ams Osram OSIRE LEDs as a key component. The LEDs are designed for dynamic ambient lighting, offering individually addressable chips for maximum flexibility in color and driver selection. Impressively, up to 1,000 LEDs can be connected on a single bus, ensuring scalability for various applications. Discover the Adapter Board RAB5 with a clear focus on a development environment for high-performance LEDs.

The RAB4 is an Adapter Board that makes it possible to quickly test the performance of the Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) technology, which is much more accurate than conventional multi-GNSS systems and enables centimeter-precise positioning in real time. Therefore, the board features only state-of-the-art components like the high-precision UM980 RTK positioning module from Unicore, which uses the latest generation of the GNSS SoC NebulasIV. The module offers a high positioning rate of 50 Hz and supports all available GNSS frequencies. Thanks to the Arduino interface, the RAB4 is also easy to combine with other boards such as the RDK3, and ensures fast, cost-effective, and technically sophisticated realization of development projects.

The RDK4 from Rutronik System Solutions is an automotive qualified, compact Base Board to accelerate the pre-development phase of motor control units. Numerous features such as microcontroller, system base chip, and the most important automotive interfaces CAN FD and LIN are integrated in a very small space. At the heart of the RDK4 is the new PSoC^TM 4100S Max with an Arm® Cortex®-M0+ automotive microcontroller and the OPTIREG^TM Mid-Range+ system base chip from Infineon. Rutronik System Solutions also provides software examples and the Base Board is already integrated into the ModusToolbox^TM development environment. Due to its features, the RDK4 allows versatile use and helps to implement applications quickly.

With the RDK3 from Rutronik System Solutions, wireless low-power Bluetooth connections with state-of-the-art security features become reality in fast-growing future markets like Advanced Robotics, Smart Building, Smart Factory, and Healthcare.

Like its predecessor board RutDevKit-STM32L5 the Development Kit RDK2 offers a complete solution for hardware and firmware developers and a basis for a modular toolkit, so that proof of concepts can be created in a very short time. The board is run on the PSoC™ 62 MCU by Infineon. The microcontroller has a dual core CPU and is therefore ideal for secure edge computing and cloud applications. The PSoC™ 62 has an integrated power management IC for SMPS for all connected power supplies. The board's new and unique butterfly design allows for improved handling and user-friendly access to the Arduino connectors and reduces potential interference from electromagnetic effects, especially with RF IoT Arduino Shields. The integrated potentiometer can be used for testing the analog-to-digital conversion. A special feature is that the user can access all pins of the PSoC™ 62 via supplied headers. In addition, a capacitive sensor technology has been installed, the so-called CAPSENSE™.

The RutAdaptboard-TextToSpeech can be used for a variety of HMI (Human Machine Interface) applications e.g. smoke detectors, elevators, handheld devices, vending machines, access controls or health products. The speech output is available in different languages e.g.: British English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese (Mandarin). Because of its Arduino pinout it can be operated on any evaluation board with Arduino interfaces. For the speech output an external speaker is needed that can be connected with a 3,5mm Jack socket. The actual speech output is being generated through a PC software and controlled by the host microcontroller. Thus, the functionality of the corresponding HMI can be expanded and significant time and cost savings can be achieved.

The RutAdaptBoard-HMS allows the user to operate the HMS Anybus technology on any evaluation board with Arduino header. The HMS technology is being realised with the attachable PCBs "AnybusCompactCom B40" and the appropriate "Connector Board".

It enables the communication via all common fieldbus and industrial ethernet networks such as EtherCAT, PROFINET, Modbus, POWERLINK, CC-Link, PROFIBUS and many more.

HMS Anybus needs a host microcontroller, that is controlled through a serial interface. This system solution offers the quickest entry for industrial ethernet / fieldbus, that can be configured through software.

With the steady increase in high voltage eMobility applications semiconductor-based resettable fuses are quickly replacing mechanical relays and contactors as well as traditional non-resettable fuses. The eFuse concept is an innovative new trend for protecting both the user and the hardware in high power applications. In a new reference design together with our focus supplier Vishay, an eFuse featuring SiC MOSFETs and a VOA300 optocoupler was designed to handle continu[1]ous power up to 40 kW. It has been designed to operate continuously at full power with less than 25 W of losses without requiring active cooling. The design features a preload function, continuous current monitoring and over[1]current protection. Shutting down after a fault only takes 2.5 µs.

IoT control applications have become a trend and with it the demand for sensing devices to collect information is increasing. Here radar sensing is highly robust and stable with respect to external conditions such as temperature changes and ambient light. With the RAB3, the board family of Rutronik System Solutions is expanded by an Adapter Board to test the use of a fully integrated module as well as the possibility of a discrete development. Only components that are on the Rutronik line card are integrated on the RAB3. The Nisshinbo 60GHz Smart Sensor Micro-Module offers a non-contact and highly accurate measurement solution. With the Infineon XENSIV™ 60 GHz Radar Sensor, a discrete radar IC complements the latest radar technology provided with the RAB3.

The RutAdaptBoard-RAB2 is based on two state-of-the-art CO₂ sensors from our focus suppliers Infineon and Sensirion. With this board our customers have the unique chance to evaluate both CO₂ sensors on one board. Rutronik as the distributor leaves the decision to the customers to decide which parts fits the most to their own application. With this board the customer is fully able to make all the necessary first tests and evaluations to know with which part they want to go into the full application development. This board is also equipped with Arduino headers and can therefore be combined with all other Rutronik development base- or adapter boards. Also with all other Arduino compatible boards. Through the supplied headers users can easily access all the pins of the parts.

The RutAdaptBoard-RAB1 based on Infineon, Bosch SE and Sensirion sensors is an easy approach for the usage of sensor outputs and different sensor combinations. Like all our other boards is has an Arduino header to combine this adapter board with all our other adapter boards but especially to use it together with our RDK2 baseboard. With state of the art sensors it can be used for many sensorfusion applications. Through the supplied headers users can easily access all pins. Operates on any evaluation board with Arduino interfaces and is therefore a perfect fit for our RDK2. With an additional MEMS sensor it can also be used for manipulation detection or navigation functions.

The HESS is a hybrid energy storage system makes use of the advantages of lithium ion batteries and super capacitors (super caps). When operating conventional battery-powered industrial systems in combination with highly dynamic loads (e.g. inductive load), high-frequency current changes with very high current amplitudes are continuously present. Highly dynamic charging and discharging of supercaps is used to provide or absorb this short-term energy. Only nominal currents are applied to the battery. Uncertainties in the system result from the unwanted and parasitic effects in the electronics of DC/DC converters. Oscillations occur in the system and have to be controlled (analog or digital).

The system solution electronic nose works like the human sensory organ. Like our nose the system detects volatile compounds and volatile organic compounds (VOC) that emit odors or can be harmful to ones health. This system selectively stimulates the compounds and analyses and characterises the behaviour of the compounds physically and biochemically. When observing volatile compounds in the air, the state is not stationary, it is a volatile state. The status depends on the chemical and physical parameters that are not constant. Thus, a volatile and multidimensional and ever changing system exists.

• Result of a collaborative research paper with a university within a thesis
• Contract research with universities and institutions
• Development of unique IP and corresponding IP protection

The system solution odor eliminator makes use of the odor destroying properties of UVA LEDs. Volatile compounds and volatile organic compounds (VOC) can cause odors and can be harmful in certain concentration. The state is not stationary, it is a volatile state. The status depends on the chemical and physical parameters that are not constant. Thus, a volatile and multidimensional and ever changing system exists. The odor eliminator is a system that selectively stimulates volatile compounds. The molecular composition of the VOCs is changed and analysed and destroyed with the help of UVA LEDs.

• Result of a collaborative research with an external development
• Contract research with universities and institutions
• Development of unique IP and corresponding IP protection

The system solution virus eliminator makes use of the disinfecting effect of UVC LEDs. When observing volatile compounds and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the air, the state is not stationary, it is a volatile state. The status depends on the chemical and physical parameters that are not constant. The virus eliminator is a safe and closed system, that precisely destroys the molecular and organic composition of viruses and bacteria in the air.

• Result of a collaborative research with a supplier
• Contract research with universities and institutions
• Development of unique IP and corresponding IP protection

The wasp scare is a system solution that selectively influences the sense of smell of wasps. The influence only occurs within a defined radius. The sense of smell is being limited, so that the insects cannot sense stimuli within that radius. This can be for example the smell of fruit or meat. The technical solution can be adapted to a variety of insects.

• Result of a collaborative research paper with a university
• Contract research with universities and institutions
• Development of unique IP and corresponding IP protection