Eurotech Wins 1.2M USD Contract to Supply Embedded Computers for Industrial Material Handling Application

Eurotech Single Board Computers Power Industrial Systems

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Jul 06, 2010, 07:00 ET

COLUMBIA, Md., July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Eurotech, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, products, and systems, today announces a 1.2 Million USD contract to supply embedded single board computers to a leading global technology solutions provider for material handling in critical applications. The two-year contract will allow the customer to meet market demand for sophisticated systems with the Eurotech Viper and VGX embedded computers.

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The customer chose Eurotech to extend the lifecycle of the automated material handling systems using the ARM technology on the Viper and VGX embedded computers. These systems are designed for long-term, high-performance operation in the industrial environment. The Eurotech embedded computing platform controls key aspects of the systems, including automation control and user interface.

"This customer depends on reliability and long-life as differentiators for its material handling systems," commented Greg Nicoloso, Chief Executive Officer of Eurotech in North America. "By designing in Eurotech embedded computing solutions that meet those strict requirements at inception, they can extend the revenue-generating lifetime of their systems and stay on track to meet the market's high standards."

About Eurotech

Eurotech is a publicly listed global company (ETH.MI) that integrates hardware, software, services, and expertise to deliver embedded computing platforms and sub-systems to leading OEMs, system integrators and enterprise customers for successful and efficient deployment of their products and services. Drawing on concepts of minimalist computing, Eurotech lowers power draw, minimizes physical size and reduces coding complexity to bring sensors, embedded platforms, sub-systems, ready-to-use devices and high performance computers to market, specializing in healthcare, security, defense, transportation, industrial and energy segments. By combining domain expertise in wireless connectivity as well as communications protocols, Eurotech architects integrated solutions that simplify data capture, processing and transfer over unified communications networks. Our customers rely on us to simplify their access to state-of-art embedded technologies so they can focus on their core competencies. Learn more about Eurotech at www.eurotech.com.

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