Kithara Software and InoNet enter Technology Partnership
InoNet Computer GmbH and Kithara Software are combining their expertise to provide a highperformance industrial PC platform for demanding real-time applications. The goal of the partnership is to combine InoNet’s industrial-grade, high-performance industrial PCs with Kithara’s real-time system and to demonstrate this as a validated solution for industrial machine vision as well as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
The platform addresses applications with high demands on timing accuracy, computing power, and system reliability in industrial environments. Typical use cases include high-resolution image acquisition and processing, AI-based analysis, sensor fusion, and safety-critical control tasks in vehicles and machines.
Built on InoNet’s high-performance industrial PC architecture—specifically designed for compute-intensive and latency-critical applications—and combined with Kithara’s real-time system, the platform delivers a fully integrated solution that combines high computing power for machine vision and AI algorithms, an industrial-grade hardware design for demanding environments, hard real-time capability under Microsoft Windows, multicore support for parallel latency-critical processes, and scalability from prototype development to series production.
The combination of InoNet’s powerful industrial-grade hardware and deterministic software enables system integrators and OEMs to implement complex image processing and ADAS applications on a standardized platform. Development effort is reduced, integration risks are minimized, and time-to-market is shortened.
“With InoNet, we have found a partner whose industrial PC systems are ideally suited for compute-intensive real-time applications. Together, we demonstrate that demanding machine vision and ADAS functionalities can be realized on industrial standard platforms with deterministic behavior,” explains Uwe Jesgarz, CEO of Kithara Software GmbH.
The joint platform will specifically target high-performance application classes and will focus in particular on scenarios with heavy computational loads, high data rates, low latency and synchronized processing of multiple sensor streams. Kithara and InoNet are thus addressing system integrators, machine builders, and manufacturers of intelligent vehicle systems that require robust and scalable industrial PC solutions for real-time applications.