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News Release from: Sysgo | Subject: PikeOS
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 August 2007
RTOS to keep German traffic flowing
German traffic technology and solution specialist Signalbau Huber has chosen use PikeOS as the future application platform for its traffic control systems.
PikeOS will be the foundation for the urban traffic control and management systems built by Signalbau Huber Using PikeOS, the number of boards used in the traffic control system could be reduced significantly which lead to an increase of the stability and availability of the whole system without losing any functionality
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"PikeOS gave us the freedom to move ahead with our legacy software while concurrently base our new developments on open standards like Posix, Linux and Java", says M Rosskopf, Head of Development at Signalbau Huber.
"Reaching this level of innovation in our product development gives us the freedom to offer various functionalities while maximise stability and availability of the whole system".
PikeOS will be used in the new generation of Actros, Signalbau Huber's series of urban traffic controllers.
This new Actros generation will be available starting summer 2008.
Actros is designed to control highly complex traffic situations, embedded in centralised traffic control networks, and includes an OCIT (Open Communication Interface for Road Traffic Control Systems) interface.
Using the partitioning technology of PikeOS, Signalbau Huber has been able to consolidate several boards on one new hardware platform, without any compromise regarding the separation of applications with different criticality.
On top of that, PikeOS virtualisation technology has enabled Signalbau Huber to reuse its various legacy applications, minimising porting and migration efforts.
All new developments at Signalbau Huber will be based on open standards like Posix, Linux or Java, which are all supported by PikeOS.
"For our highly innovative product developments and customisation efforts, here at Signalbau Huber, we need a flexible and safe foundation".
"That's why we choose PikeOS", confirms J Lock, Actros Software Architect.
"The whole team also uses Codeo, the Sysgo integrated development environment".
"So we only have one development environment for Posix, Linux and Java applications as well as driver developments".
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