@KXI Episode 5: ADAS in the Wilderness
WEST KELOWNA – Kelso Technologies Inc. has announced its subsidiary KIQ X Industries is establishing a Phase-One production facility to convert different classes of heavy duty ‘host’ vehicles at its research and development facility.
Kelso is an engineering company that specializes in the creation, production, sales and distribution of proprietary products used in rail and automotive transportation. The West Kelowna production facility is being designed and tooled to convert different classes of heavy duty “host” vehicles with the company’s patents pending proprietary Automated Traction Optimization Method for Vehicle Suspension Systems. These vehicles are targeted to be sold to customers operating in extreme terrain environments.
KIQ X Industries’’ method is the first successful specialized fully automated Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS) software system purpose-built for heavy-duty commercial wilderness applications. Their method is now compliant for sales to commercial wilderness operations including existing forestry roads, and its KXI Wildertec equipped vehicle is compliant for operation on all resource and private roads through an all-terrain vehicle insurance policy.
Once completed the facility is expected to have a production capacity potential to facilitate approximately $25 million of annual revenue commencing in late 2024. With the assistance of the landlord, the current facility can be scaled to meet long-term production volumes to service in excess of $100 million per year at the same location. The facility will house R&D, Phase-One production and an on-site test track.
The firm will concentrate its KIQX production resources on delivering safety enhancing technology solutions for customers in, but not limited to, wilderness firefighting, mobile medical treatment, evacuation and emergency response, mining and exploration, energy transmission, civil engineering projects, telecommunications and geographic/environmental data systems.
Kelso products are designed to address the issues of public safety, worker well-being and environmental harm while providing effective and efficient operational advantages to customers.
Business Examiner Staff