Industrial parts. Names you already trust.
STE Integrate is engineered around the parts that already run mines, plants and vehicles: an NVIDIA AI computer on a rugged Connect Tech carrier, Sony imagers on Leopard Imaging cameras, an Ouster lidar, Parker mobile-machine controllers, Festo and SMC pneumatics, sealed TE Connectivity DEUTSCH connectors. Nothing exotic, nothing that cannot be bought again in ten years, and every part chosen for a reason we can show you.
The machine and its sensing set, from the engineering model.
Six groups of parts, one unit.
Eyes, computer, gateway, hands, stop and seat. The computer proposes. The gateway checks. The hands move the machine's own controls. The stop can cut power and vent air without asking any of them. This is the specification STE Integrate is built to: parts named by maker and family, ratings the makers' own.
An AI computer built for vibration, cold and dust.
The thinking happens on board, on hardware made for vehicles rather than for a rack, in a sealed two-chamber aluminium enclosure that keeps the computer and the safety hardware in separate rooms on separate power.
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin
The AI module that runs perception and planning on board, with thirty-two gigabytes of memory. The same family drives autonomous vehicles and industrial robots.
NVIDIAConnect Tech Rogue-RX XP
The board the module bolts to, rated by its maker from forty below to eighty-five above, taking anything from ten to thirty-six volts of machine power, with two ten-gigabit Ethernet ports, two solid-state drive slots and sixteen lanes of camera input. Every connector on it locks.
Connect TechInnodisk industrial solid-state drive
Two terabytes of industrial flash on the fastest PCIe lane, rated by its maker for the shock and vibration of a working machine and for a million-hour class of service life. It holds the signed software and the rolling record of what the machine did.
InnodiskMoxa managed industrial switch
A managed industrial Ethernet switch with power over Ethernet, keeping camera, service and gateway traffic apart, with hardware time-stamping so every sensor shares one clock.
MoxaTwo NXP automotive controllers
Two independent automotive-grade controllers check every motion command against its bounds before it reaches the drives. Each has its own supply, its own clock and its own watchdog, and a Texas Instruments isolated CAN transceiver between it and the machine's wiring.
NXP · Texas InstrumentsInfineon OPTIGA TPM
A hardware root of trust. The unit boots only software we signed, and the keys never leave the chip.
InfineonMEAN WELL railway-grade converter
A converter built for rail vehicles turns the machine's rough supply into clean, isolated power for everything in the box, with the surge and reverse-polarity protection ahead of it on our own board.
MEAN WELLEaton supercapacitor modules
Two supercapacitor modules carry the computer through a power loss for long enough to close its files cleanly. No battery to maintain, nothing to replace on a schedule.
EatonTE Connectivity DEUTSCH connectors
Every cable in and out of the unit ends in a sealed DEUTSCH connector, the same family the machine's own harness uses, bought genuine and through the authorised channel only.
TE ConnectivityTen cameras, a lidar, and a sense of where it stands.
Ten automotive high-dynamic-range cameras from one imager family, in four lens widths, so a low sun, a dark shop and a flashing beacon are all read by the same eyes. Above them a lidar that looks a full circle around the machine and ninety degrees top to bottom, a dual-antenna satellite receiver that knows its heading standing still, and an inertial unit that feels how the house moves.
The distinctive piece is a passive reflective band on the carbody. A downward camera reads it and gives the angle between the house and the tracks optically, so nothing touches the machine's own swing electronics. Radar for rain and dust is an option, added where a site's weather calls for it.
Leopard Imaging cameras on Sony IMX490 imagers
Ten sealed automotive cameras, IP67 and IP69K, rated from forty below to eighty-five above, with LED-flicker mitigation so a lit sign or a beacon reads as steady light. Four lens widths, one serializer, one colour response.
Leopard Imaging · SonyOuster OS0-128
A hundred and twenty-eight channels of lidar looking all the way round the machine and ninety degrees top to bottom, sealed to IP68 and IP69K, with the thermal design that makes a roof mount in the cold plausible.
OusterSBG Systems Ellipse-D
A dual-antenna GNSS and inertial unit that knows its heading while standing still, which matters on a machine that swings without moving, with RTK precision when a correction is available.
SBG SystemsVectorNav VN-110
An industrial inertial unit reading how the house moves, shakes and tilts a thousand times a second.
VectorNavSICK TMM88D inclination sensors
Two-axis inclination sensors on the boom and the stick, reading their angle to a hundredth of a degree over CANopen.
SICKThe coded band
A passive reflective band on the carbody, read by a downward camera, gives the house-to-chassis angle optically. Our own design, and the reason the whole attitude chain needs nothing from the machine's electronics.
Steady EddieA stop that no software can talk to.
Energy authority sits in a separate, certified controller on its own hardware. Below it the stop is deliberately simple and physical: two contactors, a valve that vents the air, and a hand valve with a padlock.
A certified mobile-machine safety controller
Decides whether motion energy is allowed, and removes it, on its own hardware. There is no path from the AI or the computer to it.
Certified to the machinery safety standards by its makerSchneider Electric TeSys contactors
Two contactors in series. Opening either one removes power from every drive coil; each reports its own state through a mirror contact, and the rail voltage downstream is checked independently.
Schneider ElectricROSS monitored double valve
A monitored double valve vents the air from every actuator on demand, watches itself, and latches if its two halves disagree.
ROSS ControlsFesto lockable hand valve
The valve a technician turns to cut the air and vent it, with a padlock on the knob and a gauge downstream to prove zero.
FestoKavlico pressure transducers
Three independent pressure channels prove the air is really gone. Low pressure alone is never taken as safe; the levers must also be back at neutral and every actuator physically clear of its control.
KavlicoVIAIR industrial compressor
A twenty-four-volt compressor rated for continuous duty feeds a rated receiver, and sits outside the safety function, so nothing it does can hold the stop.
VIAIRTwo red stops
Two mushroom stops, cab and outside, each on two channels. Either one drops the contactors and the valve and latches, and neither can be reset from anywhere but the machine.
Schneider Electric · Banner EngineeringMobile-machine controls, air-driven, and made to let go.
The parts that touch the machine's own controls come from the makers who already equip the machines: a Parker mobile controller, Festo valves, SMC cylinders, and sensors that read the machine's own stick rather than trusting the cylinder.
Parker IQAN-MC43
A mobile-machine controller from a hydraulics house, rated from forty below to eighty-five above, closing its loop every millisecond across five CAN buses with ten closed-loop outputs. It moves the controls on a fixed beat.
ParkerFesto proportional valves
Proportional valves meter the air both ways to each actuator, in a heated manifold so the valve pack stays above its cold limit on an Alberta morning.
FestoSMC compact cylinders
Compact spring-return cylinders push the joystick collar, one direction each, four to a stick, in the maker's cold-climate build. Cut the air and every one of them springs clear.
SMCNovotechnik RFD-4000
A non-contact angle sensor reads the machine's own joystick, so the loop closes on where the control actually is, not where the cylinder thinks it went. Sealed to IP69, rated from forty below.
NovotechnikSICK rugged inductive sensors
A sensor on each pusher body proves a real physical gap between the pusher and the stick, cold-rated and sealed. The proof is the sensor, never the command.
SICKFesto travel cylinders
Double-acting cylinders on the travel levers, pushing and pulling through a split clamp with a compliant insert. No drilling, no adhesive, no permanent change to the lever.
Festoigus · SKF · Southco
Self-aligning polymer contact shoes from igus so a pusher meets its pad square; SKF spherical rod ends on the travel cylinders; Southco quick-release pins so the brackets come off by hand.
igus · SKF · Southco
Named, signed, and kept out of the loop.
NVIDIA JetPack and TensorRT
The unit runs NVIDIA's own platform for the Jetson: JetPack for the board, TensorRT for the models, so every model runs where NVIDIA built it to run.
NVIDIASecure boot, encryption, signed updates
Jetson secure boot proves that the software booting is the software we signed. Protected data is encrypted at rest. Updates arrive signed, into a second slot, under the Uptane and TUF frameworks the vehicle industry uses to keep forged or stale updates out.
NVIDIA · Uptane · TUFROS 2 with Eclipse Cyclone DDS
Services talk over ROS 2 with the Cyclone DDS security profile: every service identified, everything denied by default.
ROS 2 · Eclipse Cyclone DDSEvery build lists its parts
Each software build ships a machine-readable bill of materials in the CycloneDX format, built under the NIST secure software development framework, with the AI governed under the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
CycloneDX · NISTA local Qwen language model
A language model on the machine answers an operator's questions from the controlled manuals, with no connection required. It can explain. It cannot command anything.
QwenA screen that cannot overstate itself.
A rugged, sunlight-readable touch screen
A twelve-inch industrial display, sealed at the front, bright enough for a cab in full sun and read through gloves and rain.
Cincoze · Winmate classYubico YubiKey
The operator signs each job with a hardware key. The approval binds the machine's own serial number, the plan, the tool, the work zone, the limits and an expiry. Change any one of them and the approval dies.
YubicoThirty-two screens, forty-two alarms
What was asked stays apart from what the machine did, on every screen. Each alarm is cleared only by the system that raised it. Stop and revoke on the screen is software; the red button is not, and the screen says so.
Steady EddieHow we buy.
Four lanes, each with its own rule, and no score that can override a failed one.
- Certified safety partsOnly through the maker's authorised channel, only the exact certified variant, and an independent review before any of it is credited.
- Compute, network and sensingManufacturer traceability, environmental evidence, country of origin and manufacturing site declared, firmware and its bill of materials reviewed, a disclosed update process.
- Ordinary valves, cylinders and fittingsFactory identity, samples, first-article inspection and a golden sample before any lot ships.
- Metalwork, harness and assemblyBuilt in Canada from released drawings, with end-of-line test on every unit.
Why these parts.
Every part on this page is chosen by a rule we can show you: a maker who publishes its ratings, a family that will still be made in ten years, a cold rating fit for the ground we work, and a sealed connector to bring it in. Where a maker's rating is quoted here, it is the maker's, about its own part. What the whole unit does, you judge with your own hands at our own Test Facility in Alberta. How the intelligence in the seat uses all of this.