Can a Forklift Collision Detection System Show You What You Need to Know? If You Have the Right Technology.
If you only had a forklift collision detection system. As a safety professional, don’t you wish you could have eyes everywhere? Wonder if the forklift operator was telling the truth… or not when you saw the damage done to the racking system? Or saying to yourself, “I could have sworn I saw the forklift on the other side of the facility.” Wondering how the forklift got from here to there when the operator was gone for the day. So many questions. Can these and other questions be answered? If you have a SIERA.AI forklift safety system you can. Let’s take a look at what a forklift collision detection system can do.
What is a Forklift Collision Detection System?
Whether you call it a forklift safety system, forklift collision detection system or a forklift proximity detection system, fundamentally we’re discussing how to avoid forklift accidents or collisions with either people, other equipment, or the facility itself. However, the approach and result can vary based on the technologies used such as RFID, sensors, or AI artificial intelligence with machine learning.
Different Technologies
Technologies have been moving fast. Some forklift safety systems use RFID technology, which certainly did wonders for the industry. When it first came out, there were antennas of RFID placed on the pallets so they can be read accurately with content, weight height etc, which kept the chance for theft down to a minimum. It also helped keep delivery and inventory accurate as well. However, applying the technology to moving vehicles like forklifts was good for its time, but was reliant on people wearing a vest or badge for the technology to identify if someone was present. It also relied on hardware being installed, mostly in high traffic areas, in order to identify if a person was around the vehicles. You probably can figure out on your own why this worked pretty good, but has many holes.
Sensors are good as well. Depending on how the sensors are applied to the situation, they can include no to little intelligence. Sensors are only detecting what you want them to detect. So the solutions can range from identifying one thing to having intelligence to include multiple identification tactics.
And Along Came Artificial Intelligence
With all of the ups and downs in the news with AI and machine learning, this technology can be created and used for good. Within a forklift safety system such as SIERA.AI’s, AI has been taught to learn the difference between a person and an object with great accuracy and warn the forklift driver with the critical information and take action. The smart forklift safety system comes with a set of learnings, all it just needs is the fine tuning of learning your particular facility. Understandably.
Because it’s AI, each forklift acts on its own. It doesn’t need repeaters, or badges to identify something is nearby. The smart sensors constantly scan, interpret the information and warn when necessary. The benefit also is within the capturing of what it ‘sees’ and keeps a visual report in the telemetry Dashboard. This all means that you can have eyes out on the facility floor at all times, and you can be many places at one time because the forklift safety system with AI machine learning technology will make that happen. Just watch it in the telemetry Dashboard.
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