You should at least consider a mini-ITX solution if you can provide
the following for the control system:
- controlled environment (temperature, humidity, dust, vibration)
- a relatively large space
- plenty of power (20W or more continously, 50W peak)
- ample development platform set up/installation time
(for the first project)
You should definitely look into a mini-ITX solution if you provide the
previously mentioned prerequisite, and you require the following from
the control system:
- lots of processing power
- lots of RAM to run complicated programs
- lots of storage to store data
- many features of a full-blown OS, such as
- full TCP/IP stack
- file storage system
- web server, email server, file server, etc.
- multi-processing and multi-threading
- remote administration
- database backend
- standardized programming languages/envirionments
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