Electric where it turns. Pneumatic where it pushes.
STE Integrated is the system we build today: one removable unit and one dock, set up for whatever controls your cab has, built on twelve machines across ten families at our own Test Facility in Alberta.
STE Integrated in an excavator cab.
One unit, one dock, your controls.
A cab is made of two kinds of motion. Some controls turn about a centre and some push along a line. STE Integrated drives each kind the way it wants to be driven, so the same unit can sit in an excavator on Monday and a wheel loader on Wednesday.
You buy a dock for each machine and one unit that moves between them. What you get is a seat you can fill on a night shift, on a hazardous station, or in a seeding window you cannot hire into.
- Joysticks and control levers
- Travel controls, pedals and the machine's own pilot lockout lever
- Dials, steering wheels and directional selectors
- Implement and harvest controls on agricultural machines
Every cab is different. The unit is the same.
A dozer's operator station.
The four questions buyers ask first.
- What does it do to my machine? Nothing. Nothing is cut, no harness is tapped, no controller is flashed and no OEM software is touched. The only wire is a fused power feed.
- How long is my machine down? The first fit takes days and happens once. After that the unit goes in and out of the dock.
- Who diagnoses it at six in the morning? Your machine's systems are untouched. Its fault codes stay its own, and no diagnostic path for the machine runs through us.
- What happens when I sell the machine? The unit lifts out and the dock comes off. The machine is standard.
Twelve machines, ten families, our own fleet.
STE Integrated is built on twelve machines the group owns and runs, at its own Test Facility in Alberta.
| Machine | Family | What Eddie works |
|---|---|---|
| John Deere 290G LC | Tracked excavator | Two joysticks, two travel controls, the throttle dial, the pilot lockout lever |
| John Deere 470G LC | Tracked excavator | The same controls in a heavier machine |
| Caterpillar D6T LGP | Dozer | Steering, forward-neutral-reverse, gear selection, parking brake, blade, ripper |
| Caterpillar 236 | Skid steer | Two joysticks, the auxiliary functions |
| John Deere 7720 | Agricultural tractor | Steering, pedals, implement controls, power take-off |
| John Deere 9400 | Four-wheel-drive tractor | Steering, pedals, implement controls |
| John Deere S670 | Combine | Propulsion, steering, header height, harvest controls |
| John Deere 310 | Backhoe | Driving controls at the front, hoe controls at the rear |
| JCB 510 | Telehandler | Steering, travel, boom, attachment controls |
| Caterpillar CS54B | Compactor | Steering, propulsion, implement control |
| Volvo A40D | Articulated rock truck | Steering, pedals, the gear selector, the dump control |
| Caterpillar 930 | Wheel loader | Wheel steering, pedals, implement joystick |
Ten families at once is deliberate. One system reaching an excavator, a dozer, a tractor, a combine, a backhoe, a skid steer, a telehandler, a compactor, a rock truck and a loader without ten development programmes behind it is the claim this product rests on, and we test it rather than assert it.
Your machine does not have to be modern.
Autonomy that talks to a machine's electronics needs a machine with electronics to talk to. Eddie works the controls, not the wiring, so a machine with no CAN bus, no ECU and no firmware is handled the same way as new iron. A mixed yard is one system, not one programme per make. In our experience the machine with the seat problem is usually the older one.
Three ways to take control away from Eddie.
Pull the machine's own pilot control lockout lever, which Eddie raises and lowers exactly as an operator does. Pull the red manual release on any actuator, with one hand, no tool, no air and no power. Or vent the air, which releases every drive at once. Each one works without the other two, and no single failure takes out more than one of the three. STE Integrated's safety functions are designed against the architecture of ISO 13849 and built toward ISO 17757, the standard for autonomous earth-moving machinery. We claim no certification and no performance level; the releases are yours to try at our own Test Facility in Alberta.