Last week the 15th Annual Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering & Technology Symposium (GVSETS) took place in Novi (Detroit area, Michigan). This year GVSETS has put the focus on partnering with industry, government and academia to meet the Army’s transformational needs; especially talking about Ground Vehicle applications, from the mechanical platform itself, to the most breakthrough in-vehicle communication systems.

SoC-e, as a specialist in communications equipment for critical applications in general, and particularly for Ground Vehicles, was present in two ways at the event.

Our CEO, Mikel Idirin, attended the event in person, where he was able to meet with multiple customers, potential customers, partners, institutions and working groups around Ground Vehicle.

We had a live demo about TSN, together with Aitech in their booth. The demo generated a lot of interest. It demonstrated the ability of our TSN technology to carry high priority traffic in a congested network without any loss. To do this, a RELY- TRAF-GEN traffic generator was used to inject traffic into a network where two cameras cast video to a screen. The traffic from one of the cameras was sent as best effort traffic, while the traffic from the other camera was sent over TSN, observing loss and latency errors in the former but not in the latter.

A very fruitful few days at GVSETS, confirming once again the importance of the convergence towards Ethernet in on-board communications (Ground, Navy, Avionics). In addition, it is truly remarkable the role that TSN is taking in the various US ARMY Programmes.

This year’s 15th Annual Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering & Technology Symposium (GVSETS) has put the focus on partnering with industry, government and academia to meet the Army’s transformational needs. We will be represented at this meeting by our CEO Mikel Idirin, who will attend various meetings given the interest in our TSN technology in the sector. In addition, we will also be present at the Aitech stand as we have collaborated in the demo they are going to present there, based on our TSN technology. Our joint, innovative, live showcase demonstrates a future deterministic Digital Backbone built on The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA™) and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN). This existing technology replaces older and slower communication standards such as CANbus and MIL-STD-1553B with a modern, high-speed, unified network backbone built on the Ethernet physical layer. This demo will be conducted to demonstrate the ability of our TSN technology to carry high priority traffic in a congested network without any loss.   To do this, a RELY- TRAF-GEN traffic generator will be used to inject traffic into a network where two cameras will send the captured video to a screen. The traffic from one of the cameras will be sent as best effort traffic, while the traffic from the other will be sent over TSN, observing loss and latency errors in the former but not in the latter. In addition, two RELY-TSN-PCIe cards, one of our flagship products, will be used to connect the cameras to the network based on a TSN switch based on SoC-e’s TSN technology. All this is going to happen in a week, in Novi (Detroit). See you there!