AI Takes a Proactive Stance to Powered Industrial Trucks
The industrial industry continues to evaluate and adopt forklift AI. This new proactive technology brings intelligent learning to warehouses, manufacturing facilities and distribution centers in order to increase productivity, reduce forklift accidents and maintain the safety of those working side by side with powered industrial trucks. How can a forklift AI technology work with the forklift operator? Let’s answer some of these questions.
What is Forklift AI?
Forklift AI along with machine learning works to know, or learn, the correct way something is to be done. In terms of PIT’s or forklifts by SIERA.AI, the AI camera is constantly scanning every 60ms to a desired distance set by you, the manager for the facility. When the forklift is in motion, the continuous scanning allows the forklift driver to complete their tasks without the constant worry of an object or person coming too close to the forklift. This relieves the driver of the constant pressure of watching for pedestrians or other objects such as equipment. This increases the productivity of the forklift driver in getting the task done while the Forklift AI is on a constant watch and notifies the driver when necessary.
Notification to the Forklift Operator
As the object or human comes within a pre-defined distance, let’s say 5’, 16’ or all the way to 33’, the forklift operator will be notified with both audio and visual alerts simultaneously working to notify the operator. The distinct audio alert is different than the sounds around the driver so he can be more attentive to the sound. At the same time, the visual alert is flashing. There are two different types of flashing that can occur. Based on what the forklift AI identifies, it will flash either a symbol of a human or a symbol of a box which represents an object.
What If There is Both a Person and an Object Together at the Same Time?
Let’s say there is a worker loading up boxes onto the racking system. There are a bunch of boxes around the worker which can only be visible by either the top of the head if standing straight, a shoe if the worker is on all fours, or an elbow if the worker is bending over. These common positions can cause an accident and seriously injure the worker. However, the Forklift AI by SIERA.AI has partial human detection, which can identify a person that may be hidden by objects. The Forklift AI technology will alert the driver that there is a person first, not the object. We certainly don’t want the driver to move the boxes while the individual is behind them. That is why the driver will be alerted first to the human’s presence before the boxes.
Proactive Safety
Forklift AI is constantly learning in order to make the facility you are in safer and smarter. As we know, each facility is different from the next, even if you are in the same company. The Forklift AI technology comes to you already smart, it’s simply learning very quickly your unique environment. As it will quickly learn, you can teach it to make certain adjustments so alarms do not sound. This could be a bump in the road that you know is there, and now the Forklift AI will know as well.
Forklift AI is a proactive solution ensuring the safety of the driver, pedestrians and other equipment around. Be sure to talk to us about our solution and how we can make your facility safety proactive.
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