Reliable and High-Performance Solutions for Industrial, Building, and Energy Applications
The QNX® OS 8.0 offers a robust combination of reliability and performance, leveraging its microkernel architecture to provide freedom from interference and enhanced fault tolerance. This foundational software reduces latency and jitter, ensuring the predictability and stability essential for high-demand automation, energy management, and building control applications. Here are tailored examples for nuclear power plants, elevators, and PLCs in the context of industrial, building, and energy automation and control.
PLCs in industrial automation require high performance and real-time response to optimize control processes across manufacturing lines and machinery. With QNX, PLCs benefit from low latency, fault tolerance, and predictable behavior, ensuring uninterrupted control and precise coordination. This architecture minimizes jitter and supports integration with complex automation systems, enhancing efficiency and reliability in fast-paced industrial environments.
In nuclear facilities, reliable, real-time data processing and control are essential for safe and stable operations. The QNX microkernel architecture provides freedom from interference and fault tolerance, ensuring continuous monitoring and precise control of critical systems. Low latency and deterministic response are vital for managing reactor controls, safety mechanisms, and emergency shutdown procedures, delivering the predictability needed in highly regulated environments.
Elevator control systems depend on precise timing and reliability to ensure passenger safety and system efficiency. QNX enables smooth, real-time control for elevator functions, such as door operation, acceleration, and emergency braking. The microkernel’s fault tolerance and reduced jitter provide the stability required to handle variable demands across building systems, supporting daily operations and emergency scenarios.
Safety Certifications, Compliance, and Conformance
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QNX Hypervisor for Safety
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QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks
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IEC 61508 SIL 3
Functional safety standard for electronic systems requiring a high level of reliability and risk reduction, including transportation, energy generation and process control.
Functional safety standard for electronic systems requiring a high level of reliability and risk reduction, including transportation, energy generation and process control.
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ISO 26262 ASIL D
The highest classification of injury risk in the functional safety standards for automotive applications.
The highest classification of injury risk in the functional safety standards for automotive applications.
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Road Vehicles - Cybersecurity Engineering.
Road Vehicles - Cybersecurity Engineering.
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Software and Solutions
FAQ about QNX for Industrial, Building and Energy Automation and Control
The QNX microkernel architecture isolates critical system components, providing freedom from interference and enabling reliable operations even in complex automation environments. Fault-tolerant mechanisms such as component isolation and error detection ensure that issues within one part of the system don’t propagate, thus maintaining overall stability. This architecture is particularly suited for applications where operational continuity is essential.
The QNX RTOS is optimized for hard real-time performance, achieving sub-millisecond response times with minimal jitter. The RTOS guarantees deterministic response behavior, ensuring precision in applications that demand strict timing adherence, such as high-speed machinery control, PLC coordination, and sensor data management in industrial automation. This deterministic behavior supports precise task execution required in real-time environments.
QNX and affiliated products are designed to comply with cybersecurity standards like IEC 62443, cybersecurity in industrial automation, and ISO/IEC 27001, information security management. Our foundational software also provides security features such as data encryption, network isolation, and system monitoring, which facilitate compliance with these standards, supporting resilient operations and reducing vulnerability to cyber threats in critical infrastructure.
QNX software is widely deployed across the sectors, supporting critical applications that require reliability and precision. For example, it is used in wind turbine controllers and nuclear power plant control systems, providing real-time performance and fault tolerance for energy management. In industrial settings, QNX powers programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, ensuring accurate control and monitoring of complex machinery and processes. QNX also supports smart building systems to enhance automation and efficiency in building management.