Do I Need to Spend Hours on the Telemetry System?

Lift truck telemetry. Do we know what this means? Is it meant only for industrial applications, or did it come from a bigger source. In researching its use, telemetry has been applied in various industries. There’s the telemetry unit within a hospital, it can be used to track animals in the wild, spacecrafts, chemical plants and even lift trucks. So, what is the benefit of lift truck telemetry. Let’s first take a look at its meaning.

What is Telemetry?

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, telemetry is the science or process of telemetering data. Meaning, it is measuring and transmitting data. For lift truck telemetry, this means measuring and transmitting data from mobile equipment, or the lift truck, to a central repository, or the real-time, online Dashboard. Let’s explore what this means and the benefits we derive from it.

How to Collect Data

There are two parts to the lift truck telemetry solution by SIERA.AI. There is the device that needs to be installed on the lift truck itself, and then the online, real-time Dashboard that houses the data collected in the facility. The device on the lift truck serves to:

• Collect data to measure and ensure OSHA compliance
• Collect data to measure impacts or the potential for impacts on mobile equipment within the facility
• Provide guiding answers to questions – what are those questions, well what do you want to know

Benefits of Lift Truck Telemetry #1

OSHA compliance is critical to every company. Are your forklift drivers safe…is the equipment operating effectively and efficiently? By answering questions in a forklift inspection, you can get the answers. However, human nature says, “I know what it’s going to ask, I know what to answer, so let’s get this done.” SIERA.AI took these actions into consideration and created the forklift inspection questions and answers and randomized it. This way…we get closer to the actual truth.

Benefits of Lift Truck Telemetry #2

Lift trucks can go anywhere in the facility. Many of these corners may not be ‘covered’ or transmitting data. So how can you get a clear picture? The forklift safety solutions offered uses AI machine learning technology along with WIFI or cellular that captures and collects the data in real-time. However, with those spots that may not have WIFI or cellular coverage continues to work and collect data. Once the lift truck captures that data, it automatically transmits to the Dashboard, ready for analysis.

Benefits of Lift Truck Telemetry #3

Now that you are compliant and capturing information from all for corners of the facility, there is data that is ready to be turned into information. A lift truck telemetry system starts with a blank slate. What do you want to know in order to institute change? These are the main factors EHS and safety professionals want to know over a period of time. That time can be set to whatever you want to analyze: day, week, month, year or all time. Your choice.

• Failed Forklift Inspections – is there a commonality to the failures? Is it by truck, operator, a part on the truck, or an environmental that’s causing a failure? You can find out, fix the environment around and make change for the better.
• Near Misses – What almost happened. Is there a problem brewing? Where, what, who are data points to begin reviewing, analyzing and deciding how can the close call be averted so it doesn’t end up being in an impact.
• Low, Medium, High Impacts – Why are these impacts occurring? By analyzing the data, you’ll begin to put reasoning together as to the potential cause so you can take action for it to (hopefully) never happen again.
• Drilling Down for Specific Information – When needing further insights, getting down to the finer details can help draw conclusions on specific changes that need to be made so safety is at its paramount.

With That Said…

It’s time to implement the data capturing solution of the Lift Truck Telemetry. For SIERA.AI it is automatically included in both the S2 Digital Inspection and the S3 Pedestrian Detection System. In our opinion, you can’t have one without the other. Get a look at our telemetry Dashboard by contacting us at sales@siera.ai.