Wireless Embedded monitoring

[Daniel Eischen]

Anyone have any experience with PC/104 or other really small
footprint platorms and FreeBSD?

We need to build a small box for equipment monitoring (temperature,
pressure diff., vibration, indication).  Just a few discrete
inputs/outputs, and analog inputs would be good enough.  The
hard part may be sampling an A/D signal at up to 30KHz, so
having the I/O card do the sampling and buffer it would
probably be necessary.

The box would also need to have a supported wireless or a
spare PCCard slot.  Deployment would be in a shipyard in
the Northeast, so being able to handle -30F to 100F would
be necessary.  Maintenance engineers would walk around
on a daily or weekly basis and download sensor data from
the monitors with a laptop (or some other handheld PC)
for analysis (looking for equipment failures).

Any ideas on hardware (SBC, I/O board)?

-- 
Dan Eischen