Andril announced his ninth acquisition on Monday with the purchase of Klas di Dublin, producers of equipment for the robust -on -edge cut for the military and the first rescuers.
Andril would not reveal the financial details of the agreement and the purchase is subject to regulatory approval, but the company has said that Klas takes 150 people.
Just, on Monday, Andril also announced a new product called Menace-T.
We will give the company’s points for the name of interesting product, in particular for a device that is really only a pack of connectivity/network connectivity, rather than, for example, a fantasy style shooting. (Compare the name Menace with C2BMC of Lockheed Martin, the name for its command, control, battle and communications management products.)
Klas’s top product, known as Voyager, is the robust family of calculation and networking systems that Andril had already used in his other Menace Command Center products. Even Voyager had already been integrated with Andril’s top reticular software. The sensor and artificial intelligence port on the devices to perform tasks such as the identification of objects.
But while most of us foresee that a portable control system is of the size of a truck-many are-menace-t inserts itself in two cases of transport that can be created by a person in a few minutes, says the company. Its goal is to bring cutting and communications into off-grid and/or inhospitable environments. Andril says it is already used in military land vehicles and maritime ships.
An interesting use case for Menace-T is the support of calculation/communication for VR headphones of the military integrated visual increase system (VAT). The IVAS project was initially assigned to Microsoft in 2018 after launching the idea of developing robust Hololens headphones for soldiers. The project was assigned an initial budget of $ 21.9 billion.
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But after years of technical struggles, Andril took control of the contract in difficulty in February, although Microsoft remains a cloud partner.
The network had already been added to Microsoft’s VAT headphones, bringing to the vision of computers that helps the headphones to detect, keep track and classify the objects.
Now Andril thinks that Klas technology that feeds its Menace-T product can solve some of the other historical VAT problems, such as the processing of reliable data.
With VAT, “there are scenarios in which those soldiers must communicate with the tactical edge to send data, receive data, for autonomous activities of activity, and this is a place where Klas technology can help,” said Tom Keane, in engineering Svp, in a press conference. “Klas has already provided VAT technology for several years in that context. So we expect to do more.”
Beyond Andril’s military objectives, there are a series of other artificial vision situations that are not practices until a more powerful processing becomes available. This ranges from cars to industrial areas or even such as pollution monitoring.
While Andril is clearly focusing on military and correlated fields such as law enforcement – with all the rhetoric that implies – if he should solve the problem of calculating the edges for VAT, there are at least many commercial possibilities for technology. Andril did not even exclude one day pursuing those.
“Kla’s technology and products have many cases of use: military, national security, law enforcement, autonomy and more. Andril, together with our partners, will continue to support customers (with) a wide range of use cases,” Keane said to Techcrunch.
