ROCKSAND

Applications / Operating contexts

Different environments create different sensing, integration, control and verification priorities. ROCKSAND organizes engineering around those practical conditions.

Engineering Applied Where Systems Must Work

01

Industrial Automation

Typical engineering challenge
Coordinate sensing and control around machinery, interfaces and operating sequences.
Relevant capability
Sensing · embedded control · hardware integration
System context
Machine and industrial systems
02

Inspection & Testing

Typical engineering challenge
Create consistent acquisition and verification paths for inspection or test tasks.
Relevant capability
Optoelectronics · calibration · signal processing
System context
Inspection, test and measurement
03

Smart Devices

Typical engineering challenge
Fit sensing, control, communication and processing into a compact product architecture.
Relevant capability
Electronics · embedded systems · product integration
System context
Connected product systems
04

Monitoring

Typical engineering challenge
Acquire and communicate useful information across ongoing operating conditions.
Relevant capability
Data acquisition · communication · edge processing
System context
Equipment and environment monitoring
05

Autonomous & Intelligent Systems

Typical engineering challenge
Support local awareness and response within an integrated platform.
Relevant capability
Intelligent sensing · edge computing · system control
System context
Mobile and intelligent platforms
06

Specialized Applications

Typical engineering challenge
Resolve unusual combinations of environment, interface and delivery constraints.
Relevant capability
System architecture · multidisciplinary integration · validation
System context
Purpose-specific technical systems
Conceptual optoelectronic sensing system in a mountain monitoring environment.

Application lens

Context changes the engineering priority

The same technical discipline can play a different role depending on operating environment, product envelope and verification need.

  1. 01Operating environment
  2. 02System behavior
  3. 03Delivery condition

Place the system

Define where the technology must operate and what it must accomplish.

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