Innovative fanless mini PC for the medical environment

With the new midi PC e‑medic™ Silence ST‑M(i), the Lübbeck-based com­pa­ny Baaske Med­ical has devel­oped anoth­er robust and qui­et small com­put­er (218 x 222 x 77 mm) for low-main­te­nance long-term use in med­ical­ly used areas. Thanks to the EPDM (eth­yl­ene propy­lene diene rub­ber) sealed full met­al hous­ing, the Silence ST‑M(i) is IP65 pro­tect­ed from five sides. Rear: IP50. In accor­dance with DIN EN 60529 and ISO 20653 stan­dards for degrees of pro­tec­tion by enclo­sure (IP code), the unit has full touch pro­tec­tion, pro­tec­tion against dust ingress (dust-tight) and pro­tec­tion against water jets (noz­zle) from any angle, with the excep­tion of the rear panel.

There is also a pres­sure equal­iza­tion ele­ment to ensure tight­ness under all work­ing con­di­tions. The full met­al alu­minum hous­ing is pro­tect­ed against elec­tro­mag­net­ic inter­fer­ence (EMI), and the EPDM gas­ket is made of elec­tri­cal­ly con­duc­tive mate­r­i­al. There is no sig­nif­i­cant aging effect. Many com­mon chem­i­cals (includ­ing dis­in­fec­tants) do not harm the hous­ing or the seals.

A high­light of the prod­uct are the RS232 and RJ45 inter­faces, which are already gal­van­i­cal­ly iso­lat­ed and insu­lat­ed up to 4 kV, thus elim­i­nat­ing the need for addi­tion­al exter­nal iso­la­tors. Last but not least, the Mini-PC is insen­si­tive to mechan­i­cal vibra­tions and shocks: The proces­sor, a 10th gen­er­a­tion CPU, is sol­dered down to the board and the RAM sock­et and cable entries are mechan­i­cal­ly pro­tect­ed. In addi­tion, the ST‑M(i) shines with high-qual­i­ty fea­tures: 3 HDMI mon­i­tor out­puts, WLAN mod­ule 802.11 b/g/n/ac with 2x com­bi anten­na for 2.4 and 5GHz, heat pipe cool­ing sys­tem with full alu­minum heat sink pro­file hous­ing as well as VESA mount and DIN / wall mount bracket.

The prod­uct meets the elec­tro­mag­net­ic com­pat­i­bil­i­ty require­ments of EN / IEC 60601–1‑2. In addi­tion, the pow­er sup­ply of this prod­uct is TÜV test­ed for com­pli­ance with the safe­ty stan­dards EN / IEC 60601–1 for med­ical elec­tri­cal equip­ment. The e‑medic™ com­put­er may be used with­in the patient envi­ron­ment. How­ev­er, con­nect­ed periph­er­al devices with­in the patient envi­ron­ment, such as print­ers or cam­eras, must either also com­ply with the require­ments of IEC 60601–1 and IEC 60601–1‑2 or be addi­tion­al­ly equipped with two-lev­el pro­tec­tion for the patient. This addi­tion­al pro­tec­tion can be pro­vid­ed, for exam­ple, via iso­lat­ing trans­form­ers or iso­la­tors in the con­nect­ing cable.