About Kontron
Kontron designs and manufactures standards-based and custom embedded and communications solutions for OEMs, systems integrators, and application providers in a variety of markets. Kontron engineering and manufacturing facilities, located throughout Europe, Americas, and Asia-Pacific, work together with streamlined global sales and support services to help customers reduce their time-to-market and gain a competitive advantage. Kontrons diverse product portfolio includes: boards and mezzanines, Computer-on-Modules, HMIs and displays, systems, and custom capabilities. Kontron is a Premier member of the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance. For half-a-decade now, Kontron has been named a VDC Platinum Embedded Board Vendor. Based entirely on user feedback, industry professionals evaluate vendors on over 45 non-product related criteria. Kontron is only one of two companies to receive the Platinum award 5-years running.

Rugged VME and CompactPCI hardware platform controls multiple unmanned aircraft (09/29/2009)
During 2007 a series of QinetiQ research activities culminated with a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot successfully controlling multiple unmanned aircraft from the cockpit of a Tornado ...

Kontron supplies multi-processor VME solution to power the world's most accurate satellite navigation system (09/29/2009)
The world's latest and most advanced Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Galileo, is now in its test and validation phase. At the heart of the system's Ground Control Center ...

Conduction Cooling Techniques for Rugged Computers (09/29/2009)
Conduction cooling for modular embedded computers has been used for many years in applications where air cooling is not appropriate. Standardization efforts have helped to maintain ...