KRYPTON DAQ: Rugged Measurement for Road Load, Durability, and Harsh Environments

22/06/2026

KRYPTON DAQ: Rugged Measurement for Road Load, Durability, and Harsh Environments

KRYPTON DAQ is built for field measurement, vehicle instrumentation, rugged sensor layouts, and harsh environments where measurement stability matters.

When testing moves outside the laboratory, the requirements for a data acquisition system change significantly. The hardware must not only measure accurately, but also remain stable under vibration, dust, water, changing temperatures, long cable runs, and limited installation space.

In road load, durability, vehicle testing, heavy machinery testing, and field measurement, sensors are often distributed across many locations. A centralized DAQ architecture can increase analog cable length, wiring complexity, noise risk, and setup time. KRYPTON DAQ addresses this challenge with a rugged, distributed EtherCAT-based measurement architecture.

KRYPTON CPU rugged datalogger for KRYPTON DAQ systems

Distributed measurement for harsh environments

KRYPTON modules can be placed close to the sensors, connected in a daisy chain, and synchronized through EtherCAT. This keeps analog sensor cables shorter, simplifies installation, and makes the system easier to expand by measurement location.

Road load measurement system architecture with DAQ, sensors, and CAN FD

Road load and durability testing

For road load and durability testing, the system can combine strain, wheel force, acceleration, temperature, pressure, CAN/CAN FD, vehicle speed, position, and control data in a synchronized DewesoftX workflow. Engineers can monitor signals in real time, record long-duration datasets, analyze events, and prepare technical reports without separating the data into isolated tools.

Vehicle road load and durability testing in real-world conditions

CAN FD and rugged data logging

KRYPTONi-1xCAN-FD brings CAN FD data into the distributed EtherCAT measurement chain. The module can be installed close to the bus being measured, reducing CAN wiring complexity while keeping vehicle network data synchronized with analog, temperature, strain, vibration, GPS, or video data.

KRYPTON CPU adds rugged processing and data logging capability to KRYPTON modules. It supports stand-alone measurement architectures where the system must record data in harsh environments or tight spaces without relying on a standard office computer.

Configuration based on the measurement objective

A practical KRYPTON configuration should start from the measurement objective: sensor locations, signal types, environmental exposure, sampling requirements, CAN FD needs, data synchronization, power supply, mounting, cable routing, and DewesoftX workflow. When these elements are handled during system design, field testing becomes more stable and data analysis becomes more reliable.

Conclusion

KRYPTON DAQ is suitable for road load data acquisition, durability testing, field measurement, CAN FD measurement, strain, force, vibration, temperature, pressure, long-duration monitoring, and test bench systems that require rugged distributed data acquisition.