The AMT Collision Avoidance System (CAS) has been developed in response to industry requirements for a safer, more productive and less stressful working environment when using Heavy Vehicles (HV) and Large Mobile Equipment.
Quite apart from the risk of serious injury to personnel working in and around the vicinity of mobile equipment, the direct cost to operators of repairs and downtime is significant.
The CAS design enables the installation of the system in it’s entirety (CAS-CAM/RF®) or the high resolution colour video system (CAS-CAM) as a stand alone product, with the necessary inbuilt smarts to interface the RF later, should the client so desire.
The complete CAS-CAM/RF® System provides a visual and audible warning of impending danger in the event a tagged unit enters the designated “AT RISK” zone associated with the HV.
How It Works
The CAS-CAM/RF® System utilisies 2 state-of-the-art technologies to aid in the prevention of collisions:-
Colour video cameras with a high resolution LCD Display Unit and Radio Frequency (RF) transceivers.
These technologies have been integrated into a unique collision avoidance system providing the operators with advanced automatic object detection and classification.
The system also provides an automatic warning that identifies potential collisions and alerts the HV operator to areas where collisions could occur. At the same time, a warning is given to the “AT RISK” object of impending danger.
All HV, LV, personnel and stationary objects are fitted with an RF transceiver tag. The HV continually receives and transmits and is therefore, always aware of any “AT RISK” objects within the designated range.
These signals are also detected by the LV, personnel, stationary object or HV tags. All tags transmit an identification code which is deciphered by the CAS-CAM/RF® System and classified. The number of tags detected in each class is displayed on the HV Display Unit.