KURT

In this short paper, we explain how e-mobility and the drive towards autonomous driving and MaaS is being disruptive for the traditional automotive vehicle makers. We show how’s KURT’s Software Driven approach meets the challenges.

VirtuosoNext for emobility

Altreonic has published a new article on the Move Forward website. 

This is the 4th part of the series on applying packet switching for mobility. In this article, we bring it all together. In attachment the complete series of four articles in a single text.

Altreonic will be exhibiting and presenting at the IDTechEx conference/exhibition in Berlin 27-28 April 2016. Altreonic will provide a presentation "KURT E-Vehicle For Enabling Urban Mobility: Versatile, Scalable And Cost-Efficient".

Visit us in the exhibition hall booth I13.

Peter Harrop, Chairman of the IDTechEx market research company : “Years ago I pointed out that the 100 or so manufacturers of car- like specialist electric vehicles should not design every one from scratch but have a common platform. The industry is ridiculously fragmented. Altreonic’s KURT vehicle is one of the first that has the potential to overcome this uneconomic fragmentation”.

Dr. Bodo Schwieger from Team Red (an international consultancy firm on mobility and transport), stated in an interview: “Amongst the mobility solutions of 150 providers we evaluated, the modularity of the KURT concept is unique”.

Altreonic has demonstrated for the first time "steer by web" capability for its KURT vehicle. Using a camera input and a smartphone, the vehicle was remotely steered over internet using a web application. Even with the application server and the vehicle being widely apart (about 3000 km) and using a standard ADSL connection, the control was with minimal delay. This brings KURT in the domain of Internet of Things, enabling semi-autonomous driving for a fleet of KURT vehicles. 

The KURT light-weight vehicle is completely modular and driven by a redundant software and hardware architecture. Internally, Altreonic's VirtuosoNext network-centric RTOS is used to execute the distributed control strategy of 4 independent wheels each with their own motor. Further work will focus on increasing security and error resilience. For more information, contact Altreonic.

Altreonic has been showcasing the KURT production prototype at Autotechnica 2016 in Brussels Expo from 20st to 23rd March 2016. Altreonic was guest at the TRAXIO booth. Traxio is the Belgian federation of the automotive industry in Belgium. We had the pleasure to welcome the Federal and Flemish ministers of Mobility, Mme Galant and Mr. Weyts.

The exhibition was cut short following the blind terror attacks on 22nd March in Brussels. All our sympathies to all victims of this senseless violence.

Altreonic received the seal of excellence from the European Commission for its SME-II project proposal under the title "Sustainable electric mobility for urban environments by deploying a novel and disruptive e-vehicle system for city logistics and people transport".

This means that Altreonic passed all stringent Horizon 2020 assessment thresholds for all award criteria: excellence, impact, quality and efficiency of implementation. The very positive evaluation by independent international experts is a very positive encouragement for our efforts over the last 3 years to develop KURT as a modular and scalable electric vehicle. Uniquely versatile, it might well be an enabler for urban electro-mobility to take off.

Altreonic presented its KURT e-vehicle for urban mobility at the City Car Summit in Berlin. The KURT concept is an enabling solution for urban mobility by its modular and scalable design. It takes into account many of the issues with existing electric vehicles by a radical design concept that takes the benefits offered by electric propulsion into account from the very beginning. The result is an astonishing new type of Light Electric Vehicle that covers multiple classes in the L category. More information on the City Car Summit 2016 website.

Join Altreonic for a full day at the Transport for smart cities conference day on 28 January 2016 in Brussels. Conference website: http://www.smartmobility2016.eu

Altreonic will discuss under the topic "Mobility as a Service: what does it mean?". Mobility as a Service is often mentioned as the next step on the Mobility roadmap. This is often interpreted as a providing additional services to an existing mobility and transport infrastructure. We argue that this might not be enough to reach the next step. We should define it as a next level of Quality (QoS) in the exercise of our Mobility needs. In this short presentation we explore the idea of applying the principles of packet switching to filling in the mobility needs, especially in the context of sustainable urban mobility whereby electrification goes hand in hand with taking another look at how a vehicle is developed, used and supplied with energy.

Many of you expect to receive my annual poem at the year's transition. I must admit, becoming a poet once per year is getting harder. I guess our brain evolves eliminating gradually the free-form associations, our life experience patterns taking over. Nevertheless, for those who prefer to skip the next philosophical ramblings, I still managed to write a short one.

This being said, best wishes for an inspiring new year!

(The sun's energy and carbon, source of all life).

Now that we are using electricity for transport, it is high time that we rethink the vehicles themselves.” That is exactly what Eric Verhulst and his team of engineers at Altreonic in Lubbeek have done. The result? The remarkable KURT e-vehicle, the lab prototype of which has elicited very positive reactions from the market. Read further on the beautomotive.be website