Hyster announces the launch of a pedestrian detection event dashboard, which uses data from the company’s award-winning Hyster Reaction™ pedestrian awareness camera system to track pedestrians near a lift truck in both indoor and outdoor applications. The dashboard is available free of charge to operations that already use the pedestrian awareness camera and the advanced tier of the Hyster TrackerÔ wireless verification telemetry solution.
The pedestrian detection event dashboard tracks pedestrians at ranges up to 5 metres from a lift truck. This information enables operations to reduce the risk of pedestrian- and lift truck-related accidents by adjusting pedestrian boundaries, having discussions with operators, or taking other actions.
The camera system was developed using extensive real-world photographic data and adapts to various lighting and environmental conditions to track for physical human features, increasing tracking accuracy and allowing the system to catalogue the total and average number of detection events per day and per truck, how close pedestrians get to the truck, and the number and location of events. It also captures the quantity of events that occurred when the truck was moving or stationery, as well as the date and time of each event.
“Demanding materials handling applications are already characterised by harsh conditions and businesses can’t afford the added safety risk of improper operator behaviour,” said Clay Hendricks, Global Telemetry Product Manager, Hyster. “This dashboard equips operations with the information they need to address safety concerns, keep teams moving and deliver the high efficiency and productivity they require day in and day out.”
The pedestrian awareness camera solution, which collects the data for the dashboard, can accurately identify pedestrians at ranges up to 5 metres through a 110-degree field of view and provides automatic alerts to the lift truck operator when a pedestrian is detected. Operations can choose a camera system with audible and visual alerts only, or with optional traction alerts. The audible and visual alerts use a tone sequence to communicate pedestrian proximity and a light to indicate which zone the pedestrian is in on the truck-mounted operator remote. Optional traction alerts automatically and gradually slow down the lift truck, encouraging lift truck operators to take action to avoid the detected pedestrian by slowing down, steering away or both.
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