Real-time Control is the capability to guarantee the execution of scheduled routines according to real-time events avoiding deadlocks and unpredicted behavior. Real-time control must provide fault-tolerance, fail-safeness, as well as robustness. Actua provides real time control with EKU, a Programmable Digital Platform built around DSP+FPGA, designed for expandability. EKU runs its own operating system (HRTOS), can be stacked with additional modules, and interfaced to a CPU module hosting Linux RTAI to achieve additional computational performance.

Power Handling is the capability to modulate efficiently the power transfer between batteries or grid and the motors, and vice-versa. Hardware flexibility and software/firmware enhanced strategies may greatly improve energy efficiency as well as vibration and acoustic performances. Actua's Power Handling can manage different technologies and topologies of Loads and Sources, allowing several applications within the same platform.

Rapid Prototyping is time-to-market. Actua's AKU is a rugged boxed solution conceived for the control of electric machines, no matter what they are. From the user's perspective, it is a black box that do not need access: indeed, a complete control software running on a PC, called RTC Suite, allows the control of a number of parameters to tweak the machine's performances as required. On the other hand, the system can be treated as a white box because the product comes in open source.

Electric Hybrid Powertrains are the solutions to reduced overall consumption and emissions of a standard Powertrain, they can be used to realize Zero Emission Vehicle, parallel or series hybrid with the Plug-In option to recharge the batteries using the plug-in to the domestic electric power grid.
The ACTUA's Electric Hybrid Powertrain named Power-On-Wheels is based on Motor-in-Wheel solution: the electric motors are inserted inside the wheels for better integration within the vehicle.
The brain of the powertrain is the ACTUA EKU 2.1 control unit which controls the electric motors, manages the battery and communicates with the other ECUs inside the vehicle.

X-by-Wire Systems in automotive industry replaces the traditional mechanical and hydraulic control systems with electronic control systems using electromechanical actuators and human-machine interfaces such as pedal and steering feel emulators.