Increased Awareness for Mounted Combatants

Increased Awareness for Mounted Combatants

On patrol in North East Bamyian with Kiwi Team One, performing both mounted and dismounted patrols The NZ PRT Bamyan is tasked with maintaining security in Bamyan Province. It does this by conducting frequent presence patrols throughout the province. The PRT also supports the provincial and local government by providing advice and assistance to the Provincial Governor, the Afghan National Police and district sub-governors. Thirdly the NZ PRT identifies, prepares and provides project management for NZAID projects within the region. These are contracted to Afghan companies who hire local workers to assist with the completion of these projects. Thus each project provides new amenities, and also provides employment in the region.

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Mounted combating teams often suffer from a heavy burden of information and tasks. An innovative device can help increase intelligence, awareness, and safety while reducing the cognitive burden for military vehicle crew members. The RuggedCONNECT smart video switcher developed by Pleora Technologies as a standalone device that acquires, processes, and displays real-time video sensor data for vehicle-based local situational awareness (LSA) and driver vision enhancer (DVE) applications. 

It is a scalable platform helping implement advanced and future capabilities like machine learning, artificial intelligence, and new sensors to increase mission effectiveness with minimum integration effort.

The system acquires and processes data from several cameras and sensors into a standardized feed that transmits over a low-latency, multicast Gigabit Ethernet network to processors, according to militaryaerospace.com.

The RuggedCONNECT uses the company’s distributed video architecture to enable systems designers to network several units together to create large-scale video switching systems with different video input/output combinations.

Combining the high-performance networking capabilities of RuggedCONNECT with an NVIDIA graphics processing unit, designers can add artificial intelligence (AI)-based image processing and graphics overlay decision-support capabilities to reduce the cognitive burden and increase mission effectiveness.

The configurable product architecture enables fast development to address various sensor and display interfaces, such as HD-SDI, VGA, or custom sensor/display requirements.

The technology has recently won the 2020 Military & Aerospace Electronics and Intelligent Aerospace Innovators Awards.