Vision-Based Forklift Safety Systems
Leading safety solutions, such as those designed by ELOKON, innovate on and utilize sensing technology like UWB, radar, and lasers. This technology can detect and prevent lift-truck-related collisions wirelessly and effectively. Collision hazards like blind spots, accidental speeding, and VNAs are no match for these safety solutions. But now, there’s a new player in automated warehouse safety technology.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is here and now readily available through end-user solutions. AI is transforming material handling through its applications in vision-based forklift safety systems. Whereas UWB relies on communicating modules and lasers and radar rely on object detection, AI-powered vision-based forklift safety systems combine AI and camera technology to identify collision risks. Since AI tech is fairly new, what does this mean for material handling teams? Are they reliable? Scalable? Cost-efficient?
Here, we’ll explore these questions and a new solution to power your team’s safety. But first, we’ll take a closer look at what intelligent vision is. These are all important questions to ask and have answered before you implement this new tech.
What is Intelligent Vision?
AI-powered vision-based forklift safety systems utilize intelligent vision to identify collision risks in real time. This technology uses algorithms and machine learning to capture and analyze information from a camera. It uses its programming and computing power to assign objects as collision risks.
Depending on the vision-based forklift safety system solution, the AI could make a lift truck slow down in the event of sensing a potential risk, like an oncoming pedestrian or one in a blind spot. The intelligent vision capabilities of this kind of solution learn to identify a hazard and react accordingly in real time. This removes the chance of human error causing accidents and associated injuries.
Compared to technology like UWB and radar, intelligent vision can adapt and react to hazards on its own. AI-powered vision-based forklift safety systems are built to handle the complexities of the ever-evolving warehouse.
AI has applications beyond risk identification in forklift safety. Next, we’ll dive into how these vision-based forklift safety systems revolutionize material handling safety.
Capabilities of Artificial Intelligence in Forklift Safety
Vision-based forklift safety systems identify collision hazards in real time, but their capabilities don’t end there. New developments in safety tech can provide more ways to keep employees safe throughout the warehouse. The right AI-powered camera-based detection system offers wide viewing angles, a powerful and durable design, and tagless safety. Each feature should be designed to optimize safety and operations.
1. Wide Viewing Angles
Wide viewing angles of vision-based forklift safety systems increase forklift safety because they mitigate blind spots. Large horizontal and vertical viewing capabilities are critical to efficiently identifying collision risks before an accident occurs. Luckily, newer AI-powered camera forklift safety systems grant warehouses this safety net so drivers and pedestrian employees can work with increased assurance.
2. Powerful and Durable Design
Material handling workspaces can be very harsh environments. Such environments can include high or low temperatures or corrosive material exposure. These environments can break down safety systems and equipment over time, and they can affect a driver’s ability to respond to a collision risk in time. However, modern vision-based forklift safety systems are built to withstand harsh working conditions so that they can protect your team. New hardware ensures that forklift safety is possible throughout the warehouse, especially in harsh conditions where lift truck operators may need even more help staying safe.
3. Tagless Safety
Perhaps one of the most notable features of AI-powered vision-based forklift safety systems is that they offer tagless safety to material handling teams. UWB is certainly still a valuable forklift safety tool because it offers protection against specific proximity detection events. Tagless safety offers additional warehouse protection because it uses optical data to identify risks and prevent accidents, regardless of warehouse area.
Wide viewing angles, powerful and durable design, and tagless safety are just some of the capabilities of vision-based forklift safety systems that can transform warehouse safety. Now, we’ll explore one of ELOKON’s latest safety solutions, ELOvision, a vision-based forklift and pedestrian safety solution.
ELOvision: ELOKON’s Forklift and Pedestrian Safety Solution
ELOKON redefined wireless warehouse safety with solutions like ELOshield, ELOprotect, and ELOspeed. One of our newest innovations in lift truck safety is ELOvision, our AI-camera-based forklift safety and collision avoidance system.
ELOvision
At ELOKON, we’re no stranger to implementing the latest safety tech to keep material handling teams safe around the world. ELOvision uses AI to identify pedestrian employees in real time and automatically slows down lift trucks to prevent collisions. This AI application enhances forklift and pedestrian safety, ultimately saving lives.
ELOvision offers a number of features, including tagless hazard detection, ultra-weathered design, wide viewing angles, and integration with our other UWB proximity detection and fleet telematics systems. ELOvision reduces computing time to react quickly to evolving lift truck collision risks. This forklift and pedestrian safety solution also offers customizable alert zones so your team can tailor it to meet your warehouse’s specific safety needs.
ELOvision, like any ELOKON solution, is reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient–we design our solutions to improve safety and increase productivity, all while remaining feasible solutions to implement. ELOKON is reliable because it utilizes powerful AI computing and accurately and quickly detects possible collision risks. It’s scalable because it can work with any size warehouse team while staying cost-effective since it relies on less equipment to function.
We believe that safety systems should be efficient yet remain elegant and user-friendly. At ELOKON, we combine the latest safety tech with intuitive interfaces and functionalities.
Upgrade Your Safety Solutions With ELOKON
At ELOKON, we’re drivers of innovation. We’re dedicated to designing state-of-the-art safety solutions, and now, we’re creating automated safety and driver assistance systems that leverage the power of artificial intelligence. By prioritizing ease of use and high visibility, ELOKON safety solutions can protect the workforces of some of the largest companies in the world. Reach out to us to implement revolutionary safety tech today.