Loading ...Ann Arbor, MI – Solidica, Inc. announced today the award of a multi-year contract with the United States Marine Corps to integrate its market leading PantheonTM embedded diagnostic and health monitoring system into a variety of light armored vehicle-based platforms. Based upon Solidica’s award wining ChorusTM vehicle network, sensor interface and vehicle telematics module, the project will support the military’s ongoing Condition Based Maintenance and Sense and Respond modernization programs.
Dr. Ken Johnson, Solidica CEO notes, “Our technology is in most cases 5-10 years ahead of the current competitive offerings in this market as we have approached military embedded diagnostics in a fresh and forward-thinking way. Specifically, we have taken the best of Michigan-based automotive advancements, imbued it with deep military domain adaptations, and created an affordable, scalable and open architecture system that addresses the flexibility and ruggedness demanded by this market.”
Solidica further notes that the recently updated PantheonTM platform adds several new features designed to expand the technology’s use into a wider variety of fleet customer applications that will be unveiled on June 10th at the 2008 Sensors Expo in Chicago (Booth 915). Some of the new features include an updated GPS core, 802.11g WiFi and 802.15.4 mesh wireless networks, 8GB of on-board Secure Digital Storage, built-in vehicle network message parsing (J1939 CAN, J1708, etc.), RS232, TTL Serial, RS485, Ethernet, USB 2.0, all in addition to an updated military specification housing option and a multi-analog to digital port to interface for use on analog-rich legacy systems.
John McGinnis, Vice President for the Pantheon Products Division notes, “We are extremely pleased that the Marine Corps has selected the PantheonTM system to support their Sense and Respond vision. This purchase represents a critical milestone in our pursuit to be the leading provider of military and mobile fleet diagnostic and telematics solutions.”
About Solidica
Headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI, Solidica is a rapidly growing technology solutions company that captures mobile platform health, performance, and logistics information and seamlessly provides them to local stakeholders and enterprise management systems.
The company leverages its expanding technology capabilities to provide customers with innovative smart sensor network and solid-state additive fabrication solutions in industries such as military, automotive, aerospace, industrial, and consumer products. Visit www.solidica.com for more information or contact Jeff Jorge at (734) 222-4680 x116.
