Intel vPro® Enterprise for Industrial PCs

What is vPro Enterprise?

Elevate your business computer performance and reduce IT overhead with the Intel vPro® platform. Designed for zero-touch fleet management, vPro Enterprise enables IT departments to secure, manage, and repair PCs remotely—regardless of OS health or power status. By providing a consistent, professional-grade foundation, it streamlines hybrid work security and simplifies the complexities of managing a distributed workforce, lowering the total cost of ownership.

To maximize your companies efficiency, Intel vPro® Enterprise delivers a robust foundation of multilayered security and AI-powered threat detection. Furthermore, it provides persistent remote access via Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) to ensure total control in any scenario. As a result, your organization benefits from a stable, consistent hardware platform that significantly reduces IT overhead and long-term costs.

Key Features & Benefits of vPro Enterprise

If you run a business, handle sensitive data, or, more specifically, need remote IT management capabilities, an Intel vPro processor is a great choice. It enables IT teams to remotely monitor and manage computers across a network, reducing the need for physical access and minimizing downtime.

Advanced Security (Intel Hardware Shield)

Intel Hardware Shield delivers a robust, hardware-based defense that protects your entire computing stack. It works seamlessly with the operating system and security software to detect threats and secure data during active runtime. By reinforcing security at both the hardware and software levels, it neutralizes advanced threats that software alone cannot stop. This multilayered approach establishes a foundation of trust that safeguards critical system resources from the moment of boot. Ultimately, these advanced capabilities enable business devices to meet or exceed Microsoft’s stringent Secured-core PC requirements.

Remote Manageability

Intel vPro® Enterprise continues to define professional-grade computing through the power of Intel® Active Management Technology. In fact, this platform sets the industry’s gold standard by providing true out-of-band remote manageability. Furthermore, because it is a hardware-based solution, it operates entirely independently of the operating system. Consequently, IT teams can maintain full control over their PC fleet even if the OS is unresponsive or compromised. Ultimately, this ensures that critical systems can be diagnosed and repaired regardless of their current power state.

Performance & Productivity

The Intel vPro® platform delivers a comprehensive, professional-grade ecosystem that seamlessly integrates hardware-rooted security, remote manageability, and AI-accelerated performance. Moreover, this foundation is beautifully complemented by the latest Intel® Core™ Ultra processors, which leverage a dedicated NPU for efficient AI-driven collaboration. This powerful combination, along with high-speed Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, ensures elite productivity for the modern, hybrid enterprise.

Stability & Consistency

The Intel Stable IT Platform Program (Intel SIPP) serves as a foundational element of the Intel vPro® platform. Specifically, it ensures long-term hardware consistency by strictly limiting changes to key components until the next generational release. As a result, this extensive validation process significantly simplifies IT operations. Ultimately, it reduces the ongoing burden of frequent re-testing and certification for system images and drivers

Remote Data Protection

Intel vPro® Enterprise provides critical Remote Data Protection capabilities to help IT administrators secure or sanitize devices that are lost, stolen, or decommissioned. Furthermore, these hardware-based tools operate entirely independently of the operating system. Consequently, sensitive data remains protected even if the device is powered off or the OS has been compromised.

Advantages of vPro Enterprise

To maximize impact, Intel vPro® Enterprise delivers critical advantages to industrial control environments. Specifically, it excels in settings where system uptime, hardware longevity, and edge security are paramount. In these high-stakes settings—such as factory floors, power grids, and automated logistics centers—vPro serves as a vital bridge between Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT). Furthermore, it provides the essential stability and protection required to maintain continuous operations in the most demanding 2026 industrial landscapes.

Extreme Reliability & Industrial Validation

• Industrial-Grade Certification: vPro-enabled edge processors are certified for 24/7 reliability and extended temperature ranges, ensuring stable operation in harsh environments that lack standard climate control.
• Deterministic Performance: For time-sensitive industrial tasks like robotics or synchronized manufacturing lines, vPro hardware supports deterministic performance, reducing latency jitter to ensure consistent execution of control commands.
• Intel SIPP for Long Lifecycles: The Intel Stable IT Platform Program (Intel SIPP) ensures that core hardware components remain unchanged for at least 15 months, preventing the driver and compatibility issues that often plague high-mix industrial fleets. 

Out-of-Band Recovery for Zero-Touch Maintenance

In environments where controllers or Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) are located in hazardous zones or hard-to-reach industrial sites, Intel® Active Management Technology is essential for business continuity. Use out-of-band management to remotely diagnose and repair systems, significantly reducing the need for onsite manual intervention in high-risk areas.

• Hardware-Level KVM: Technicians can remotely access a controller’s BIOS or boot screen even if the operating system has crashed. This allows for remote troubleshooting of “blue-screened” systems without physically opening a control cabinet or dispatching a technician into a dangerous area.
• Remote Power Management: Bridge the gap between operations and security with Intel® Active Management Technology. IT/OT teams can remotely wake, reboot, or power down devices on a predefined schedule. This ensures automated maintenance windows are utilized for critical updates without onsite staff, while simultaneously reducing energy consumption across the plant floor.
• Remote Boot Redirection: Drastically reduce your Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) with Remote Boot Redirection. This out-of-band system restoration allows for rapid recovery of HMIs and controllers without a technician ever stepping on-site.

Hardened Security for Critical Infrastructure

Industrial control systems are frequent targets for advanced persistent threats and firmware-level attacks. Intel® Hardware Shield provides a multi-layered defense starting at the silicon level. 

• Hardware-Rooted “Below-the-OS” Security: Strengthen your industrial cybersecurity with a hardware-based Root of Trust. Technologies like Intel® Boot Guard and Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) ensure that only cryptographically verified code launches during startup. This “Below-the-OS” protection prevents malicious firmware injections, shielding critical industrial processes from high-level hijacking.
• AI-Powered Edge & Ransomware Defense: Deploy advanced AI-powered edge security to combat modern ransomware. Intel® Threat Detection Technology (Intel® TDT) leverages real-time CPU telemetry and machine learning to identify behavioral anomalies. By detecting supply chain attacks and zero-day threats at the silicon level, Intel® TDT neutralizes risks before they spread across your plant network.
• Data Isolation: Achieve Zero Trust data isolation using hardware-accelerated virtualization. Intel vPro® uses virtualization-based security (VBS) to enclave critical control logic and operational data. This creates a hardened environment that isolates sensitive systems from the standard OS, ensuring operational continuity even if a user application is compromised.

Real-World Economic & Sustainability Impact

• Downtime Reduction: Organizations using the full vPro feature set have reported recovering from system-wide failures in as little as 48 hours, compared to two weeks for those PCs without it.
• Operational Efficiency: Factories utilizing vPro for remote management have estimated energy savings of up to 64% through optimized power state control and reduced the need for physical on-site visits by 90%.

Maple Systems’ vPro Enterprise PC

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Our embedded Industrial PC with a vPro Enterprise processor provides a high-quality solution in the market. Customize your PC to meet your needs. With plenty of built in I/O connections, Maple System PCs can be an ideal alternative to the high cost of other PC solutions.

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