Yale Lift Truck Technologies announces a new pedestrian awareness camera solution to its Yale Reliant portfolio of active alert and assist technologies, designed to boost operator awareness and help support overall warehouse safety.
“Operator awareness is a foundational element of lift truck and pedestrian safety, and the Yale Reliant technology portfolio is designed to provide a helping hand for warehouses facing an increasingly transient labor pool and inexperienced lift truck operators,” says Brad Long, global activation manager, Yale Lift Truck Technologies. “We’re continuing to target the challenges of real-world warehouse environments with research and development, and the pedestrian awareness camera solution offers the capability and configurability that real-world warehouse environments need.”
Key takeaways:
- The pedestrian awareness camera system can accurately identify pedestrians at ranges up to 16 feet through a 110-degree field of view and provides automatic alerts to the lift truck operator when a pedestrian is detected.
- Operations can get the camera system with audible and visual alerts only, or take advantage of a third type of notification with the addition of optional traction alerts. Upon pedestrian detection, a voiceover communicates pedestrian proximity and a light indicates which zone the pedestrian is in on the truck-mounted operator remote. Traction alerts automatically and gradually slow down the lift truck, an effect similar to the operator removing their foot from the accelerator. While the operator remains in ultimate control of the equipment, this deceleration effect is intended to get their attention and encourage action to avoid the detected pedestrian by slowing down, steering away or both.
- The pedestrian awareness detection system was developed using extensive amounts of real-world photographic data and adapts to various lighting and environmental conditions.
- The system is optimized for travel speeds of 5 miles per hour or less.
