TeleCANesis has introduced an advanced embedded software environment aimed at teams developing smart industrial, medical, and mobility products. This toolkit, leveraging the QNX Operating System, promises to streamline the interconnection of system nodes using standardised communication protocols. The solution is designed for mission-critical applications in sectors such as robotics, medical devices, and industrial controls, offering a significant reduction in software development costs — by over 70% — and accelerating time to market.
The toolkit features a web-based graphical design application, a VSCode extension for seamless editing and integration, and a runtime core ensuring real-time control and connectivity. Engineers can specify their connection requirements at a high level, with the system automatically generating the necessary code and managing interactions between nodes. It supports a broad spectrum of bus standards, communication protocols, and HMI frameworks, efficiently bridging different communication models.
Jonathan Hacker, CEO of TeleCANesis, stated, “We created TeleCANesis from our own experience as application developers, to overcome the time-consuming challenges when building today’s increasingly complex and interconnected systems. The tools let software teams work efficiently and get to market faster than conventional approaches allow. They can focus on the differentiating features of their products and avoid repeating the same tasks in subsequent projects. Building this toolkit on QNX technology is a statement of our commitment to low-latency, real-time connectivity for our customers.”
The toolkit is accessible online, bundled with an engineering support package providing personalised assistance from TeleCANesis specialists to facilitate integration with existing workflows. It consists of three core components: TeleCANesis Hub, a web-based drag-and-drop GUI with built-in templates for hardware configuration; TeleCANesis Builder, a VSCode extension offering signal exploration and routing visualisation; and TeleCANesis Engine, the runtime core for real-time operations.
Justin Moon, Vice President, Core Product Engineering at QNX, remarked, “Our collaboration with TeleCANesis expands our growing partner ecosystem and reinforces the value of QNX technology. We are thrilled to support the team bringing this product to market and are honoured they recognise that QNX provides the right foundation to help customers develop quickly, safely and cost efficiently.”
Engineers can leverage TeleCANesis to design systems using various hardware buses, including CAN, SPI, I2C, RS485, Ethernet, Bluetooth Low Energy, and LoRa. It also supports prominent industrial protocols such as JSON, MQTT, Modbus, J1939, ZeroMQ, Protobuf, and ISOBUS, alongside HMI frameworks like Crank Storyboard, DiSTI GL Studio, Flutter, Slint, Qt, and Unity.
