The proliferation of low-cost embedded system platforms has allowed the creation of large communities of developers,\nas well as the development of new advanced applications. Even though some of these applications can be of\nindustrial relevance, their immediate application to real products is not straightforward since most of them require a\ncomplete and expensive hardware redesign of the considered embedded solution. To speed up the technological\ntransfer of custom embedded solutions while overtaking the limits imposed by a complete hardware redesign, the\narticle presents AMBER, an innovative embedded platform leveraging on a design based on System-on-Modules (SOM)\nand Extender modules. AMBER decouples the processing part of the system, which is fully contained on the SOM,\nfrom the peripherals, which are contained on the main board and Extender modules. This allows a smooth industrialoriented\nredesign of the embedded solution. In the article, AMBER is first presented starting from its philosophy and\ndesign choices while highlighting its main features. Then, an application of AMBER as an enhanced gateway to be\nused in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) scenario is reported by considering a monitoring and actuation use case.\nThe IIoT-oriented AMBER solution is hardware and software configured to support real-time communications with\nactuators compliant with the Powerlink standard, as well as to interact with sensors compliant with Bluetooth Low\nEnergy. Performance results show the effectiveness of the proposed solution in the selected industrial scenario while\npromoting a fast and immediate transfer in new embedded products targeted to IIoT applications
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