Forklift Blind Spots: Can Technology Be the Watchful ‘Eye’
Forklift blind spots are real. Just as real as the blind spots when driving the car. That’s why there’s technology today so when a car goes in reverse, a screen comes on to show us what’s in back of the car. There’s also technology that cues us visually and with audio alerts when there’s a car close to the side of the car. So if there’s all of these precautions for a car, why haven’t companies adopted technology address forklift blind spots? You can’t argue with that.
What are Forklift Blind Spots
Forklift blind spots is when you need to see a particular area in order to proceed with driving or a task and the view is naturally obstructed. Mirrors are not able to help as they cannot reflect the activity within the forklift blind spots. These forklift blind spots are susceptible to pedestrian accidents, product damage or both.
Blind Spots Today
Forklift blind spots continue to exist today. Millions of forklifts that are in production do not have a solution. Drivers and pedestrians take precautions, as much as possible, but cannot avoid the inevitable result. An accident will happen…eventually. What can be done to reduce it down to nothing? Technology.
Technology to the Rescue
Forklift safety system technology exists today to reduce, to a minimum, blind spots. Cameras with sensors can be installed at the front or the back of the forklift to ensure these critical areas are covered. Within the telemetry Dashboard, management can set the limit of what is a safe distance before the alarms go off. Do they need to be set at 2’, 5’, 7.5’ or 20’. If you find that the distances need to be changed, you can change them at any time and the altered distance will take effect immediately. Now that the settings are in place, the cameras with sensors can begin to do their job. Scan.
The AI technology has already learned what a human is and what an object is. This distinction is important so management can easily determine how much of their cost savings is due to human protection or product protection. Both have a value, and this means bottom line savings.
Proximity Detection
When the camera with sensors begin their job with AI machine learning technology, they scan in the assigned distance searching every 60ms for either a human or an object. When either of these are discovered, the system informs the forklift driver with visual and audio alarms. When the forklift safety system’s proximity detection system is activated, the visual alarm shows either a symbol of a human or a symbol of a box. Along with the symbol is the alarm sound. This is to ensure the notification that a human or object is within the defined distance. All notifications are recorded in the telemetry system so that they can be sure everything is being recorded.
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