ACTIA Group

ACTIA Accelerates the digitalization of Off-Highway Machines

Our areas of expertise

ACTIA supports OEMs in structuring and evolving their electronic and digital architectures. With recognized expertise in embedded systems, cybersecurity, diagnostics, and lifecycle management, ACTIA helps manufacturers build machines that are safer, smarter, and ready for future digital services. This holistic approach accelerates innovation while securing time to market.

Construction and Mining

Robust machines, extreme conditions, maximized reliability.

Material Handling and AWP

Safety, stability, and connected maintenance.

Lifting equipment

Precise control, secure load management.

Agriculture and Forestry

Durability, energy efficiency, smart farming solutions.

Specialized industrial applications

Tailor-made technologies for specific needs.

Interoperability & ecosystems: ACTIA is engaged in key industry ecosystems, including AEF/ISOBUS and AEM, to ensure architecture interoperability, accelerate integration, and secure long‑term technological choices throughout the entire machine lifecycle.

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ACTIA, Driving digital transformation in the Off-Highway world

Facing the digital transformation of the Off-Highway sector, manufacturers must tackle complex challenges: accelerating innovation, leveraging data, while ensuring reliability, safety, and performance in the field.

This transformation is supported by strong expertise in functional safety, cybersecurity, connectivity, data management, and embedded systems, enabling OEMs to anticipate regulatory and technological developments.

For nearly 40 years, ACTIA has established itself as an expert in embedded systems, electronic architectures, and connected solutions. Its technology DNA, focused on machine intelligence and data exploitation, makes it a key player in this industrial revolution.

ACTIA supports OEMs with a modular and scalable approach that covers the entire vehicle lifecycle. Its unique technological ecosystem enables manufacturers to build new connected services, optimize time-to-market, and personalize the customer experience.

At ACTIA, we believe that mastering vehicle architecture, data, and connectivity is essential to sustainably transform the Off-Highway sector. As an embedded systems architect, we help manufacturers build smarter machines capable of leveraging their data to optimize performance, anticipate maintenance needs, and enrich the user experience. Our strength lies in a complete, modular, and secure technological ecosystem covering the entire vehicle lifecycle. This approach allows OEMs to gain agility, create customized connected services, and meet efficiency, sustainability, and competitiveness challenges specific to each field application.

Davide Loy, Off-Highway Market Director, ACTIA

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The digitalization of Off-Highway Machines:
A transformation lever

Machines in full transition

Connectivity, automation, data: special-purpose machines are becoming true digital platforms. To remain competitive, OEMs must integrate scalable, sustainable, and secure technologies throughout the entire lifecycle. ACTIA supports them with proven expertise in embedded systems, cybersecurity, and connectivity.

Evolving and growing needs for construction and agricultural machinery

Construction and agricultural machines face increasingly specific requirements: enhanced safety on worksites, greater precision for farming, profitability of plots, and optimized machine usage. These needs also vary by region: Europe & North America: environmental standards and cybersecurity issues accelerate electrification and digitalization. Asia: rapid urbanization and AI integration drive automation. Africa & South America: reliability, remote maintenance, and onboard diagnostics are top priorities.

Digital as a performance driver in this segment

Manufacturers of special machines are focusing their innovation efforts on the ability of machines to communicate with their environment. Connections must be direct and continuous, not only with their surroundings, primarily for safety reasons, but also with users, operators, and the manufacturers themselves.

Predictive maintenance, remote services, pay-per-use business models… Digital technology is reshaping economic models. To keep pace, OEMs need modular, interoperable electronic architectures that are ready to evolve. In this context, diagnostics have become a major strategic issue. These machines, often complex and operating in remote environments, cannot afford long downtimes. Manufacturers are therefore investing in advanced diagnostic solutions capable of quickly identifying failures and proposing targeted repairs. Leveraging real-world use cases helps automate maintenance processes. To be effective, these tools must be mobile, intuitive, and comprehensive. Technologies such as FOTA also enable remote updates of embedded systems, enhancing responsiveness and machine availability.

In response to these challenges, ACTIA deploys a modular and secure approach that supports OEMs in evolving their machine ranges: leveraging data, digitalizing services, ensuring regulatory compliance, and continuously optimizing lifecycle performance.

ACTIA, the strength of a pioneering group serving the digitalization of off-highway vehicles

ACTIA plays a key role in the digital transformation of industrial vehicles. With proven expertise in embedded electronics, vehicle architecture, and connectivity, the group has established itself as a major player in the Off-Highway market.

Industrial expertise rooted in the Group’s DNA

Historically a trusted partner of industrial vehicle manufacturers, ACTIA supports OEMs from the definition of electronic architectures to system integration. This close involvement in design offices gives ACTIA an in-depth understanding of field requirements and sector constraints.

Complete Control of the Value Chain

Unlike many market players, ACTIA designs, develops, manufactures, and integrates all technological components in-house: ECUs, telematics, cybersecurity, diagnostic tools, and embedded software. This fully controlled approach guarantees technical consistency, performance, scalability, and long-term reliability for manufacturers.
This end‑to‑end mastery ensures coherence, durability, and security across all technological building blocks—from architecture to software—providing OEMs with a partner capable of supporting every phase of development and operation with a high level of dependability.

A Unique Synergy Between Markets and Expertise

ACTIA’s historical partnership with industrial vehicle manufacturers ensures precise knowledge of operational needs and sector-specific challenges, enabling tailored solutions for every application.

A complete technological offering to digitalize industrial vehicles

ACTIA offers a complete, modular, and secure solution to support manufacturers in the digitalization of their off-highway machines. From design to field operation, every technological component is designed to optimize performance, ensure connectivity, and simplify maintenance. ACTIA designs open, scalable, and secure architectures that allow OEMs to rapidly activate digital services such as predictive maintenance, lifecycle optimization, remote diagnostics, advanced connectivity, and data‑driven business models. This approach fully supports manufacturers in their transition toward true Digital Business.

Vehicle Architecture: Integrated safety, cybersecurity, and scalability

ACTIA offers flexible and secure electronic architectures designed to integrate digitalization while ensuring long lifespan and remote updates.
ACTIA applies a safety‑ and cybersecurity‑by‑design approach aligned with key standards, including ISO 13849 PLd, ISO 25119, ISO 19014, ISO 26262 as well as ISO/SAE 21434, RED, and CRA. This ensures robust critical functions and prepares machines for future regulatory requirements.

Connectivity as the foundation of performance

Smart telematics units, adapted to extreme environments, enable optimized fleet management and real-time remote diagnostics.

A range of embedded ECUs designed for automation

ACTIA provides robust embedded ECUs that allow automation of critical functions and optimization of vehicle performance.

Innovation

HPC: A Key Technological Platform
to Support Manufacturers in Digitalizing Their Machines

The High-Performance Computer (HPC) from ACTIA centralizes all electronic functions of industrial vehicles, offering a more powerful, scalable, and secure solution.
Thanks to its unique fanless cooling technology and artificial intelligence capabilities, the HPC simplifies architecture, optimizes performance, and ensures enhanced security.
Discover how this innovation is shaping the future of industrial vehicles.

Embedded
Artificial Intelligence

Integrated
Cybersecurity

Passive Cooling
(Fanless)

Centralized Management
of Vehicle Functions

ACTIA’s approach to technological innovation is usage‑driven: each advancement—whether in AI, connectivity,
or embedded computing—aims to enhance safety, performance, durability, and scalability without adding unnecessary complexity to machine architectures.

Digital Cabin: Embedded Intelligence and Connected Services

ACTIA provides intuitive human-machine interfaces and modular connected services, enabling efficient data management throughout the vehicle’s lifecycle.

Anticipate, Act, Optimize: Diagnostics by ACTIA

Like the automotive world, the growing integration of embedded electronics in special machines is transforming industry requirements, particularly in diagnostics and vehicle maintenance. ACTIA counts major construction and agricultural equipment brands among its clients. The group has developed true expertise in diagnostics and predictive, remote maintenance tailored to off-road vehicles.

Securing the Digitalization of Off-Road Machines

ACTIA integrates security from the design stage, with a holistic approach combining functional safety and cybersecurity to ensure the reliability of critical functions, even in the most demanding environments.
With complete control of the electronic chain—from ECU to cloud—ACTIA offers natively secure solutions, compliant with the latest standards (ISO 26262, emerging cyber norms), and adaptable to future regulations.
Secure boot, data encryption, protected OTA updates, real-time intrusion detection… every component contributes to a resilient architecture designed for the vehicle’s entire lifecycle.
This integrated security vision is a major differentiator to help OEMs achieve safe digitalization of their machines.
By integrating functional safety and cybersecurity from the design stage, ACTIA protects critical functions, software, and data throughout the entire lifecycle. This approach includes secure update management, regulatory support, and development practices aligned with industry‑leading standards.

Use Cases: Digitalization in Real Conditions

ACTIA supports manufacturers in optimizing performance, reliability, and connectivity of industrial vehicles through tailored solutions.
Our use cases illustrate how our technologies deliver tangible benefits, from safety and compliance to fleet management and predictive maintenance.
Discover how ACTIA turns industrial challenges into sustainable, efficient solutions.

The Off-Highway Equipment Market Is Undergoing a Profound Transformation Manufacturers are rethinking their business models in response to growing technological, economic, and environmental challenges. Real-time data exploitation is becoming a strategic lever to optimize production, improve predictive maintenance, and accelerate time-to-market. In agriculture, issues such as plot profitability, precision farming, and adaptation to climate change demand increasingly intelligent and connected solutions. ACTIA supports this transformation by offering a unique technological ecosystem, structured in modular layers throughout the vehicle lifecycle. Our connected, robust, and secure solutions enable OEMs to develop customized services combining performance, flexibility, and reliability. ACTIA is not just a supplier but a strategic partner, helping manufacturers fully leverage data to enter the era of Digital Business and build a more resilient, sustainable, and high-performing future.

Davide Loy, Off-Highway Market Director, ACTIA

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