KDAB’s Customers and Industries Automotive, Medical, Industrial Embedded, Data Visualization, 3D, Consumer Software…

KDAB’s strong position with OEMs and Tier 1s in the Automotive industry enabled KDAB to create the Qt Automotive Suite 1.0 and Qt Automotive Suite 2.0 in collaboration with The Qt Company and Luxoft (Pelagicore). KDAB’s expertise in the development of touchscreens for IVI and navigation systems has also been used for Aircraft and Nautical Infotainment systems.

 

Case study: Lufthansa Technik

»nice« is the industry standard in cabin management and in-flight entertainment developed by Lufthansa Technik with Qt and KDAB for VIP and business aircrafts. Their systems are designed for simplicity, convenience, and pleasure.

KDAB helped »nice« move from multiple native approaches to Qt and QML enabling them to develop their Red Dot Design Award winning in-cabin environment used by VIP, government and business jets like Bombardier.

The system features wireless media playback on all mobile devices, a unique touch dial, featuring business aviation’s first application of an OLED display, a personal control unit, a 7″ pop-up display delivering immersive video combined with full cabin control, a wireless system controller and a lot more.

Case study: unu
KDAB helped unu to build a stylish, embedded high-resolution display for their second-generation electric scooter using Qt.

KDAB created a navigation framework running on an industry standard Yocto-based platform. The dashboard of the scooter is built up with three separate device parts. The 3rd party map software was integrated with Qt Quick scene and the speedometer was implemented using OpenGL shaders to optimize the visual performance. The translation back-end code was customized without touching the UI-code to provide full flexibility for the copy writer.

“Working with the KDAB team has been amazing since they have a lot of experience in development and came on board real fast”
Guilherme Müller, Director of embedded engineering, unu

KDAB expertise in Qt 3D, OpenGL, OpenCL, WebGL, Shaders and Vulkan has helped many gaming and online companies to take their products to a new level, enabling them to create ultra-realistic 3D graphics, accelerated 2D UIs, HW accelerated compute etc. KDAB’s Qt consultants originated, lead and continue to shape Qt 3D as well as many other core areas of the Qt framework.. wiki.qt.io/Maintainers

KDAB’s Kuesa 3D Studio
Kuesa™ is a KDAB solution for 3D asset creation with an integrated and unified workflow. The KDAB group can help you exploit the power of multiple GPUs for non-graphical solutions, supported by nVidia, AMD, ARM, Samsung, Google, Vivante, Valve and many others.

KDAB has helped many customers in the automation and transport industry with the development of control panels, including UI components and complete client-server systems for controlling the HW.

Case study: Migari
The development of a comprehensive software system for managing, monitoring and automating precision industrial measurement systems in a quality control context.

KDAB worked with Migari from the early concept stages to create and engineer a solution – a system using QML as a domain specific language to describe the layout of each machine setup in 3D as well as to describe measurement and analysis plans. QML is also used to adapt visualization screens dynamically, and the architecture allows for the visualization to be run on a separate device from the data acquisition. Near-real time rendering of monitoring data is achieved using the heavily optimized, OpenGL-based KDPlot library. The system can run on Linux, Windows or any operating system platform that provides drivers for the connected hardware. Find out more…

Toradex
KDAB works closely with Toradex, a leading vendor of ARM based Computer on Modules(COM) / System on Modules(SOM). We use their products in our embedded training courses and help their Qt customers in all areas, particularly on the embedded Windows platforms..

Froglogic
KDAB has a long, in-depth experience with Automated User Interface Testing and is the main partner for Froglogic’s services and trainings.

Research and Development The KDAB group supports and researches development for multiple companies on small, low end / low cost, embedded devices. Example. Qt Quick without a GPU: i.MX6 ULL

When Blackberry adopted Qt on the BB10 platform, KDAB helped port and optimize Qt for tablets and smartphones.

Case Study: IPC – IQ/MAX. Multi-award winning secure communication device for trading

Initially KDAB helped IPC to switch to embedded Linux and Qt on their turrets. In the coming years KDAB supported IPC to modernize their software, moving from a button and display design to a responsive touch UI with animations on a high-resolution screen on low-end hardware. The work resulted in the creation of a multi-award winning Trading Floor Communication System.

A number of other industry-leading companies have also developed digital communications, smart homes, and in-company systems with the support of KDAB, including reduced memory usage and power consumption. Performance improvements at various layers.

In today’s world, analyzing as well as visualizing large amounts of data is increasingly important. Oracle had components for their ERP software engineered by KDAB. The German government uses a Groupware software solution we developed for thousands of users.

Case study: Quantitative Imaging Systems (Qi) – Advanced Data Visualization

The KDAB group supports Quantitative Imaging Systems (Qi) in its efforts to revolutionize cancer research, paving the way for new treatments. The focus is to speed up and enable the rendering of huge amounts of data so Qi-Tissue can analyze images of biopsies from patients and label individual cells with over a hundred biomarkers.

“Working with KDAB has been fantastic. We get things done fast, efficiently and economically. Our collaboration with KDAB has allowed QI Tissue to get off the ground much faster than we could have done alone. We’ve built a fantastic interdisciplinary team, also in the field of computer science through our KDAB collaboration. So we were able to create novel solutions that were not available before, to help fight cancer and ultimately save lives”.
Michel Nederlof, CTO of Quantitative Imaging Systems

KDAB are proven experts, with many years experience, in migrating legacy code to Qt. Migrations include MFC to Qt and Motif to Qt, Qt3 to Qt 4 and Qt4 to Qt5, C++98 to C++11/14/17 as well as Photon or GF toolkits to Qt.

Example:
SCADA
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems have been around since the 1950’s. In spite of their proven reliability, many of these systems have antiquated UIs. This situation is ripe for change. Now that everyone carries superior user interfaces in their mobile phone, users expect their SCADA human-machine interface (HMIs) to have a certain level of polish and sophistication. KDAB is experienced in implementing attractive SCADA HMIs for our customers using Qt, which we believe is the right tool to build the modern SCADA system.

Amazon Lumberyard
KDAB helped Amazon Lumberyard support the creation of a powerful and fully customizable game engine by migrating their old code base to a new modern Qt version that enables gaming developers to integrate with Twitch and AWS.

Case Study: Kurth Electronics – Porting Qt4 to Qt5 for a multi-tester of broadband technologies
KDAB helped Kurth to modernize the software for their powerful all-in-one tester, the KE3700 Multitester, enabling it to work with all common types of broadband services, protocols, and transports. After KDAB’s support, which included porting from Qt4 to Qt5, Kurth Electronics has a solid software foundation for their full Multitester product line.

Case Study: Meiller trucks
Developing a modern Qt-based smartphone app for Apple or Android devices out of an aging application.

KDAB helped Meiller modernize an ageing diagnostic app, developing a user-friendly Qt-based smartphone app with connectivity to truck diagnostic systems. The app is primarily icon-based, runs on either Apple or Android devices, and can be integrated directly into the truck’s infotainment system in the future. The app targets common trouble spots, helping drivers not only diagnose issues with the tipper but also to access crucial external information to allow trucks to reach their maximum utility. View the Success Story pdf…

The end user demands and expectations for multiple industries are very similar – Users today expect control panels in the factory, in a car, an aircraft or in a modern high-end tractor to act like the UI on their modern smart-phones. KDAB has a long experience in helping customers to manage such a modernization.

Case study: Competence Center ISOBUS (CCI) – Creating a smart-phone like UI for the agricultural vehicles KDAB helped Competence Center ISOBUS (CCI) put intelligence into high-end agricultural machinery, helping them to stand out in the field of agritech innovation.

CCI needed a modern smartphone-like user interface with multi-touch that could display in either portrait or landscape and show at least two applications at the same time. KDAB designed the architecture for a Linux-based system using Qt in QML. It consisted of a complete software stack, including the operating system, middleware, and frameworks. As part of this effort, KDAB built a number of custom Qt controls and internal communication components to let CCI developers rapidly build specialized apps on top.

“We had to take into account special requirements for the agricultural business and decided to use qualified support for the framework in particular. We therefore turned to KDAB.