Plantforce have installed the latest pedestrian detection system from FTC Group on one of their new excavators. FTC’s Pedestrian Detection Camera provides the operator with a clear and simple visual and audible alarm system to notify them of people entering the machine’s working area.
Despite its easy-to-understand operator interface, the technology solution that powers the system is far more complex. The rangefinder is linked to sophisticated software that can distinguish between not only animate and inanimate objects, but also between people and things.
FTC business development manager Sean Hamill explained: ‘In essence, this system offers customers a completely modular safety system that is easy to manage and extremely effective, tracking pedestrians in real time with a full HD screen and any configuration of alerts required.
‘With a detection zone of up to 30m, which can be divided into programmable green, amber and red areas, pedestrians are tracked in cab on an HD screen with each of them marked in red, amber or green, depending on their distance from each camera.’
