In house at Kinishi
Electronics and cable assemblies built in house
System electronics and cable assemblies are built by Kinishi in the UK, alongside the engineering team responsible for the product.
Onboard weighing for commercial vehicles
Axle weights, gross vehicle weight and payload, live in the cab — so the driver knows the load before the vehicle moves. Optional connected reporting carries it to the operation. Designed, manufactured and functionally tested by Kinishi in the UK.
Discuss a specialist application or partnership
Choose the route for your role
From light commercial vehicles to articulated combinations.
Current applications span commercial vehicles from 3.5-tonne cage tippers and vans to 44-tonne combinations, together with tanker, road-train, multi-trailer, forestry and agricultural-trailer configurations. The vehicle, body and suspension still determine the sensing and module arrangement.
- Light-commercial cage tippers3.5 tonnes
Cage-tipper chassis used for municipal, landscaping, construction, recycling and maintenance work.
- Vans and light trucks3.5–7.5 tonnes
Commercial vans and light trucks used for delivery, trade, service, municipal and multi-drop operations.
- Rigid trucks and HGVs7.5–32 tonnes
Rigid vehicles for construction, aggregate, refuse, skip and hook-loader, municipal, recovery and distribution work.
- TankersRigid and articulated
Tanker chassis and trailers carrying fuel, chemicals, waste, water, food-grade products and other bulk liquids.
- Articulated vehiclesUp to 44 tonnes
Tractor-trailer combinations including walking floors, bulk tippers, flatbeds, curtainsiders, low loaders and tanker work.
- Road trains / multi-trailer vehiclesMulti-trailer combinations
Road-train and multi-trailer configurations, with the axle, trailer, sensing and connection arrangement agreed through specification support.
- Forestry and loggingTrucks and trailers
Logging trucks, timber trailers and specialist forestry vehicles for collection, haulage and mill delivery.
- Agricultural trailersSingle, twin and tri-axle
Farm trailers carrying grain, silage, livestock, root crops and mixed agricultural loads.
One system.
Three ways in.
Fleet, build or specialist application — you're not choosing between products. One physical system connects sensing, modules and the core unit the driver reads — on a display or in the Onboard app — with optional reporting beyond the vehicle; what changes is where you meet it.
One cable runs the length of the vehicle. Everything taps off it.
The shared physical system uses a single 2-core cable running the length of the vehicle. Standard modules tap off it wherever the vehicle configuration requires.
- Vehicle sensingChosen for the vehicle, suspension and application.
- System modulesStandard modules tap onto the shared cable where required.
- Core unitAxle, gross vehicle and payload information in the cab — on a display or in the Onboard app.
- Connected reportingAn optional layer carrying information beyond the vehicle.
Fleet operators
The driver reads the load in the cab; the operation sees the same information through connected reporting — one system, one set of numbers.
Bodybuilders & installers
Sensors and modules are chosen for the vehicle and suspension — and the single-cable architecture lets them sit wherever the build puts them.
Partners & specialist applications
Your market and application knowledge, carried on Kinishi hardware, firmware and reporting — with responsibilities agreed for each application.
Built and tested by the people who designed it.
The system is designed, manufactured and functionally tested by Kinishi in the UK. Electronics manufacture and test happen alongside the engineering team, so what production reveals reaches the people who design the system.
Standard on every system
Full functional end-of-line test
Every system receives a full functional end-of-line test before despatch.
Manufacturer or franchised source
Controlled component sourcing
Components are sourced from manufacturers or franchised distributors. Kinishi does not use grey-market parts.
Connected reporting, beyond the cab.
When vehicle information needs to reach the operation, connected reporting continues the path beyond the cab. It is a Kinishi-engineered layer of the physical system, not a generic fleet-management platform.
The physical system works on its own — reporting is added when the operation needs the data beyond the vehicle.
Explore connected reportingVehicle systemWeight information in the cab
Reporting layerCarries weight information beyond the vehicle
Operational viewThe operation's view of the data
The system, part by part.
Every installation is built from the same parts: one core unit, the sensor input modules for the vehicle's sensing method, and extension modules where the application needs them — all on one system cable.Whatever the combination, there's one thing to configure: the core unit.Every unit is IP67-rated except Core Display, which lives in the cab.
Core units
Every system has one core unit: it takes the sensor inputs and calculates axle, gross and payload weights. All three connect wirelessly to the Onboard mobile app, for reading the load and configuring the system.
Core
The core unit on its own — the driver reads the load in the Onboard app.
Core Display
The core unit with an integrated OLED display — the in-cab unit the driver reads.
Core Connected
The core unit with connected reporting built in.
Sensor input modules
One module per sensing method. Sensors are chosen for the vehicle, suspension and application; the input module connects them to the system.
Mechanical Suspension Sensor Input Module
Connects solid-state sensors used to measure load-related movement in mechanical or leaf-spring suspension systems.
Pressure Sensor Input Module
Connects air-pressure or hydraulic-pressure sensors to the system.
Load Cell Sensor Input Module
Connects load-cell sensors to the system.
System extension modules
Add connectivity, switched outputs or tilt compensation where required.
Connected Module
Adds connected reporting to Core or Core Display.
Power Output Module
Switched outputs that let the vehicle respond to load — warning lamps, strobes or signals to other systems.
Tilt Compensator Module
Corrects the weight reading for the angle the vehicle is standing at.
Cables and connections
One system cable runs the length of the vehicle; every unit taps off it.
Cables and connection components
System cable, bus tee connectors for each tap-off and 7-pole 24N trailer connectors for flexible, coiled Susie cable connections.