Prevent Threats with a Forklift Alarm System

A forklift alarm system is all about identifying threats and proactively avoiding them. Easier said than done. When you are in a manufacturing, warehouse or distribution center, there’s threats all around. How can it be controlled when workers have a job to do…a quota to fill and customer orders to get out. Preventing threats is a full-time job in itself, but can a forklift alarm system be enough? Well, it depends.

Pedestrians are Threats

Pedestrians are asked to keep themselves safe by utilizing identified pedestrian crosswalks. It’s there, its painted on the ground and yet, how often do you see workers and guests walking outside of the pedestrian walkways? Yup. All the time.

The responsibility then rests with the forklift driver. With the work that the forklift operator is doing, last time we checked, they don’t have eyes in the back of their head. Mom’s do, but we can’t rely on all moms to drive forklifts. Which means forklift drivers need an extra set of fast moving ‘eyes’ like a sensor.

Other Equipment & Customer Product

Facilities just don’t have people and forklifts, there’s other equipment, manual equipment and customer product everywhere. Many times, forklift get too close and hit the objects, back into the objects or accidently put their forks through the objects. So, the same question comes back up…how can objects be protected from the constantly moving forklifts? The forklift alarm system can help.

Forklift Alarm System

Whether you call it a forklift alarm system, pedestrian detection system or simply a forklift safety system, it’s all the same thing. However, each forklift safety system approaches safety a little bit differently. Some use RFID tags, some use beacons and the more advanced companies like SIERA.AI uses machine learning AI technology.

What Does It Do?

The SIERA.AI S3 Pedestrian Detection System does more than just protect pedestrians; it also detects objects. It’s true that other systems detect pedestrians and objects as well, but when the detection occurs, the driver does not know if it is a person or an object. The SIERA.AI S3 PDS safety system can.

In a forklift safety system, the forklift operator wants to know when there’s something in its path. But to know the difference between a person and an object is a big difference.

Pedestrian Detection and Object Detection

The SIERA.AI S3 Pedestrian Detection System will sound an alarm and provide a visual cue with either the symbol of a human or a symbol of a box representing an object. Sometimes when there’s a person and a box, you wonder which one will show first? Easily said, it will be the pedestrian every time. But what if there’s a person behind the object and only the head, or foot or arm is showing?

Forklift Alarm System for Partial Human Detection

Partial detection is a very important aspect when the driver is working on the facility floor. What if the person is stooping, bending, crawling behind the product or boxes? Won’t it be boxes that show as it is the largest item in front of the scanner? You would think so, but that’s not the case. The forklift safety detection system will identify the person’s head, foot or arm…whatever is showing. It will report partial human detection to the forklift driver before the product or box.

Preventing Threats

By utilizing a forklift collision avoidance system like the S3 Pedestrian Detection System, you’ll prevent threats to the forklift driver with the visual and audio cues that alert the forklift driver to take action to avoid a forklift accident. The intelligence in the S3 will provide accurate information to the forklift driver so he can make the best, and most informed decision.

Data Collection

Always remember, that when a forklift is out working, the S3 forklift safety system will gather information and report it to the online telemetry Dashboard. This will give you proactive and practical information so you, as a manager, can make the best decisions possible in order to keep your facility safe.

Get a trail of the S3 today by contacting SIERA.AI at sales@siera.ai.