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Endpoint Controller

About

About Endpoint Controller

Endpoint Controller provides a secure communications and control endpoint between an operator interface and one or more machines fitted with compatible FORT hardware. It transmits safety-related commands such as stop, enable and mode selection through FORT’s wireless network and receives machine status for display to the operator. A single controller can address fleets of up to 30 connected assets.

The device is used with mobile robots, autonomous machines and heavy equipment operating beyond a fixed wired control station. Integrators connect its outputs to machine safety and control circuits and configure permissions, groups and command behaviour through the wider FORT platform. FORT Robotics supplies the controller as part of a commercial machine-safety architecture that includes onboard endpoints, remote controls and fleet-management software.

Timeline

  • FORT Endpoint Controller receives SIL 3 certification

    2023-09-06 - Regulatory - FORT's Endpoint Controller received SIL 3 functional safety certification under IEC 61508 from exida. The controller can send and receive SIL 3 safety commands over Wi-Fi or Ethernet. FORT said the system can communicate with up to 30 machines simultaneously.

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Context

Market context

FORT Endpoint Controller is a safety-control device for autonomous machines, supporting wireless stop, machine inputs and networked control behavior.

  • Target environment: Mobile robots, heavy equipment, industrial machines and physical-AI deployments operating near people.
  • Workflow context: Installed as part of the safety and supervisory control layer around autonomous or remotely operated machines.
  • Customer context: Robot OEMs, fleet operators, heavy-equipment builders, industrial integrators and safety engineering teams.
  • Deployment model: Commercial safety-control hardware and platform integration.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial deployment infrastructure with safety-certification positioning.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on safety architecture, certification requirements, radio performance, integration effort, fleet workflow and operator procedures.
  • Market position: Machine-safety infrastructure for autonomous-machine deployments.
  • Adjacent products: Adjacent to wireless E-stop systems, functional-safety controllers, remote-operation stacks and fleet supervision tools.

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