Area X.O is equipped with asset tracking and situational awareness capabilities
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Plug and play sensors, connectivity and data collection
Address your specific goals, requirements, projects and use cases.
- Leverage the ‘plug and play’ sensors, power and fibre connections embedded throughout our facility – from our private and public test tracks to our Smart City Zone and smart fields
- Take advantage of simple and seamless sensor connectivity and data collection while onboarding any additional sensors you might require
Area X.O Smart Railway Crossing
The Smart Railway Crossing aims to help improve the safety of railroad systems. It enables you to:
- Quickly onboard and test new technology, sensors and devices, and interact and communicate with road users and CAVs
Safety is our top priority. Our novel asset tracking and situational capabilities help deliver on this objective as:
- All assets, including our drones, CAVs and shuttles, immediately and seamlessly connect to, and self-identify on, our secure network
- You can easily connect multiple technologies and control systems across our network to manage our drones or vehicles
- All information generated through these systems is shared with our airspace management tools and live incident management systems
The command centre is the heart of our facility with a broad array of sensors and IoT devices, authentic city infrastructure, and leading-edge networks, data analytics and cloud storage. It enables you to:
- Test different devices and sensors with numerous control endpoints that generate real-time data and facilitate real-time automated actions and operations
- Orchestrate and manage these actions with a unified real-time view into all smart city assets, infrastructure and services
Mobile mannequin test targets
We operate a suite of crash avoidance target equipment. These target systems:
- Enable you to conduct precise and repeatable test scenarios between autonomous shuttles and vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists
- Feature three different active articulated motorized test targets
- Are pulled by a track system and synchronized to produce dynamic conflicts between the shuttle and the Vulnerable Road Users (VRU)
- Can be used for testing in wet conditions with the ability to withstand crashes up to 60km/h
- Operate on battery power with a minimum operating time of 10 hours at low temperatures
Put our autonomous bywire-enabled Lexus 450H to work by:
- Leverage our fully functioning AV driving sensor and R&D platform created with AutonomouStuff
- Develop and validate your technologies and algorithms
- Develop ROS drivers that “plug-in” to our open-source environment for data collection in parallel with standard vehicle reference sensors
We have available two four-seater Aurrigo Low Speed Autonomous Shuttles (LSAS). As the first organization in Canada to transport, own, insure and operate LSAS vehicles, we have performed numerous deployments on private and public roads and test beds. Our shuttles are:
- Specially designed for first and last mile applications
- Compact and highly maneuverable fully electric vehicles equipped with a SAE J3016 level 5 compliant autonomous control system
- Equipped to enable autonomous mobility having brought together on-Pod stereo cameras, LIDAR sensor, dGPS unit IMU, wheel odometry, safety laser and ultrasonic transducers
Area X.O Emergency Command Station
Our mobile emergency command station is a fully standalone and secure 5G and 4G network that can be deployed anywhere and anytime – without any external connectivity. Completely customized, this 24-foot sprinter van features:
- An extendable antenna to spin-up a private 4G/5G network
- A tethered drone that provides increased height and additional wireless network coverage up to 30 km
- Additional onboard drones that utilize this private network to fly and offer the ability to mount a variety of sensors, cameras, radars, and LIDARS
- Band 14, the spectrum reserved for first responders, enabling the validation of defence, security and public safety products and technologies
- A fully integrated command centre that provides a unified real-time view into all IOT assets and services
- A completely integrated situation awareness system that provides a view of the airspace, vehicles and personnel
Cybersecurity testing and solutions
As the automotive industry evolves towards connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and introduces increased connectivity, new cybersecurity threats emerge. Area X.O:
- Offers technology and expertise to analyze cybersecurity risks and implement key security measures to preserve the safety of vehicle passengers and other vulnerable road users.
- Gives access to a robust cybersecurity cluster
- Is a comprehensive environment for testing, validating and demonstrating cybersecurity threat scenarios and solutions
- Is equipped with technology and expertise from organizations such as BlackBerry QNX
- Has experts who can help formulate cyber testing, validation and implementation of customized cybersecurity plans
- Facilitates opportunities to collaborate with innovators and policymakers on the development of standardization, policy and regulatory frameworks for the cybersecurity domain