Warehouse and industrial material handling scenarios always have scattered pedestrian activity areas that are easy to be ignored during forklift operation. Even with standardized operation training for forklift drivers, view blind spots, sudden crossing of personnel, and long-time operation fatigue may lead to potential safety hazards that cannot be completely avoided by manual management alone. Forklift pedestrian proximity sensors are an economical and practical starting point for enterprises to build a three-dimensional safety protection system for internal material handling, which does not need to modify the main structure of existing equipment in most scenarios, and can complete the safety function layout in a short cycle.

This kind of sensor system works by detecting the distance between the moving forklift and nearby pedestrians within the set sensing range. When the distance between the two is reduced to the first early warning threshold, the system will send out light and sound reminder signals to both the forklift driver and nearby pedestrians to remind both sides to pay attention to avoiding each other. If the distance continues to shrink to the second early warning threshold, the system will link the forklift control system to appropriately reduce the driving speed, and further issue enhanced warning prompts, so as to leave sufficient response time for both parties to take avoidance measures.

Different from single visual identification devices, the pedestrian proximity sensor will not be affected by low light, blocked line of sight or floating dust in the warehouse, and can maintain stable sensing performance in most daily operation scenarios. For small and medium-sized warehouses that are carrying out safety rectification, it is not necessary to invest a lot of cost to renovate the whole operation area at the beginning, and installing the supporting pedestrian proximity sensor for the core operating forklift can quickly cover most of the high-frequency personnel-forklift intersection areas, and accumulate actual operation data for subsequent expansion of the safety protection system.

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