Posted by Paul Moore on ninth October 2023
After in depth testing, Caterpillar Inc says it has accomplished the in-house validation of Rajant BreadCrumbs®, LX5 CA radios, which is able to allow subject trials with this Rajant product and Cat® MineStar™ Command for hauling.
“This validation is a key step to provide additional options for our mining customers when deploying Command for hauling in their operation,” mentioned Sean McGinnis, Vice President and General Manager of Technology and Global Sales Support at Caterpillar. ”We tremendously respect the help from the Rajant crew all through the validation course of.”
Rajant Corporation is the main supplier of Kinetic Mesh® networking methods, a category of networking utilising totally autonomous nodes to realize excessive efficiency even underneath ever-changing circumstances. Using its patented InstaMesh® routing know-how, Rajant networks present dynamic community connections in a cellular surroundings, routing site visitors by means of the perfect available route as community topology is consistently altering.
Rajant’s wi-fi nodes have a number of radios working at completely different frequencies and route site visitors by means of cellular nodes to enhance connectivity and throughput in dynamic environments. This strategy creates extra available radio paths, delivering uninterrupted communications the place different options have failed. The subsequent step is to validate the answer with Command for hauling in manufacturing at a mine web site to substantiate efficiency and scalability.
“Achieving Caterpillar validation has always been a critical requirement for Rajant, since our dealer/integrator network frequently gets asked about supporting autonomy,” mentioned Geoff Smith, Rajant Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing. “We are very thankful to the entire Caterpillar team for all of their support during this process and look forward to driving new business worldwide for all of our global customers.”
