General Micro Systems launched its battery-powered “X9 Spider Wearable” S1502-MP mobile computer intended for dismounted soldiers and Marines who need on-the-move high-performance processing, communications, video, database access and artificial intelligence (AI). Designed from the ground up to offer the most compute power and I/O in the smallest, lightest weight battery-powered package, X9 Spider Wearable can drive up to four on-body displays; connect to wireless LANs and personal area networks (PANs); uplink to mounted assets like vehicles or command posts; store up to 20TB of onboard data, and connect to high-rate body sensors while processing on-board AI algorithms such as image/facial recognition, target tracking or sensor fusion. The S1502-MP is one of several technologies GMS will feature at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition in Washington, D.C., October 10-12 (booth 8221, Hall DE).
General Micro Systems launches battery-powered wearable mobile computer for dismounted soldiers/Marines who need on-the-move high-performance processing, communications, video, database access and #AI. See S1502-MP at #AUSA next week! Booth 8221, Hall DE.
Modern warfare is digital, connecting air, sea, ground and US-based assets to soldiers and Marines as never before. A dismounted warrior needs access to the digital battlefield, but also needs wearable, autonomous compute power. A warrior’s modern equipment includes high-resolution range finder, NVIS HMD, smart weapon, moving maps with Blue Force Tracking, “buddy display” for squad members, and on-the-fly voice and facial recognition. These work best with local, on-the-body compute resources since wireless, RF and SATCOM links can be congested, denied or compromised. The X9 Spider Wearable “cloud computer” is the first product to provide this level of battery compute resources to soldiers and Marines in a manpack (MP) form factor.
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S1502-MP X9 Spider Wearable is battery powered from common solider-carried batteries and brings never-before capabilities to soldiers and Marines on-the-move. It frees them to receive and process data while on-foot, keeping them connected to the digital battlefield and joint assets without being “tethered” to computers in vehicles or command posts.
With X9 Spider Wearable, the dismounted soldier can receive and process, for example, range-finder data, video scanned via HMD or smart weapon, wireless comms data from over-the-air radio traffic (friendly and enemy), store the data, and process data for display or perform image enhancement for decision making. Captured data can also be run through on-board AI algorithms on the GPGPU to look for targets, assess patterns, perform voice or facial recognition, or crunch AI and vector mathematics all inside the X9 Spider Wearable with no need to transmit information to reach-back or other computers. X9 Spider Wearable gives cloud computing capabilities in a BDU pocket, vest, or backpack and drastically shortens the sensor-to-shooter time loop, increasing lethality and shortening a warrior’s decision-making to instantaneous.