LTTS has opened an engineering hub in Plano, Texas that will provide product development services to local clients.

LTTS is a unit of Larsen and Toubro, a Mumbai-headquartered industrial conglomerate. It’s one of two large, publicly-traded subsidiaries through which Larsen and Toubro provides IT consulting services. LTTS is also active in several other areas, most notably hardware engineering. The firm helps clients develop products such as chips and industrial equipment.

The company’s new Plano hub is one of about two dozen design centers that it operates worldwide. The office has capacity for 100 engineers on launch. In the long term, LTTS intends to create more than 350 high-skilled jobs at the site. The firm’s staffers will support client projects across areas such as manufacturing, AI and cybersecurity.

LTTS engineers held a technology demonstration during the facility’s ribbon cutting ceremony last week. They showcased several of the firm’s internally-developed products, including a maintenance support system called TrackEI. It’s an AI module that can be installed on trains to scan for railway track faults. 

TrackEI collects data about defects with a combination of cameras and laser sensors. It processes the data using Nvidia’s Jetson chip series. Introduced in 2014, the Jetson product line comprises more than a half dozen power-efficient AI processors designed to power Internet of Things devices. They cost a fraction of what Nvidia charges for its top of the line data center GPUs. The most capable chip in the series, the Jetson AGX Orin, combines a small graphics card with a CPU and a computer vision accelerator.

Plano is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, a tech hub that is home to firms such as Dell. That gives consultancies setting up shop in the city access to a large pool of IT talent. Plus, the tech industry’s strong presence in the region creates a sizable market for engineering services.

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