Aftermarket augments off-highway autonomous efforts

Kontron and Intel experts explain how rugged, modular COM Express solutions reduce complexity and allow retrofit of autonomous systems on heavy mobile equipment.

Continually transformed with more than a century's advances in capabilities, hydraulics and fuel efficiency, today's heavy mobile equipment must also become more intelligent and better connected. Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, big data, GPS, 5G and computer vision are proving their mettle - empowering far more efficient ways of carrying out unique and demanding tasks via advanced telematics, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) or varying levels of autonomy.

Heavy mobile equipment (HME) that can gather and apply data in real time operates and makes decisions in ways that humans cannot. This evolution toward automation promises not only leadership for manufacturers of more advanced systems, but also increased safety, economy, efficiency and ecological compatibility.