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APS PreView Radar System an Advanced Driver Assisted System (ADAS)
An advanced driver assisted system (ADAS) includes technologies that assist drivers with the safe operation of a vehicle. Through machine – operator interface ADAS increases vehicle and road user safety. ADAS uses automated technologies like radar to detect nearby obstacles, particularly in driver blind spots. For the past 3 months APS has been working together with the team from Roy Hill and the City of Perth to create a customised and machine integrated solution that significantly improves operator awareness, particularly on the sides and rear blind spots of the council sanitation vehicles and street sweepers. “Over the past four weeks the system has proved to be a success within Perth’s inner-city environment. The technology gives the driver visual and audible warnings and sensors on the side and rear of the truck to avoid accidents.”
Gina Rinehart AO, Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hill Executive Chairman, instigated the approach to the City of Perth, recognising an opportunity to leverage Roy Hill’s skills and expertise in vehicle automation to enhance safety outcomes in Perth. The roll out of the technology will take place over the coming months. APS has enjoyed the opportunity to work with Roy Hill, City of Perth and other Australian local councils. All have been passionate about driving towards Vision Zero. A global safety road traffic goal that aims to achieve a roadway system with no fatalities or serious injuries involving road traffic and vulnerable road users.
Basil Zempilas, City of Perth Lord Mayor said he was thrilled the City could be a part of the ground-breaking trial and see the technology rolled out to create a safer environment for staff and the wider community. “Our waste teams work tirelessly to keep our City clean, 22 hours a day, seven days a week. Now thanks to Roy Hill, this technology gives our drivers the assurance that they can get the job done safely and efficiently.”
APS Collision Mitigation Case Studies
APS develops case studies to inform and demonstrate how our collision mitigation radar products can be used on a variety of applications such as heavy vehicles/machinery and material handling equipment. Our case studies can help provide understanding and open discussions on how our team can assist you with safety solutions for your fleet.
Collision Mitigation Solution for Civil Machinery
Side Collision Avoidance Solution for Waste Trucks
Problem: Waste vehicles have considerable blind spots even with enlarged mirrors. Due to these blind spots there have been many major incidents involving VRUs (vulnerable road users) particularly cyclists, pedestrians and e-scooters. Some of these incidents have unfortunately resulted in injuries, property damage and more seriously fatalities, which has a significant impact on personnel safety, morale, insurance costs and downtime.
Problem: Due to a significant increase of civil and construction projects, their has been a notable increase in machine-to-machine (M2M) and machine-to-personnel (M2P) incidents. Some of these incidents have unfortunately resulted in injuries, property damage and more serious fatalities, which has a significant impact on personnel safety, morale, insurance costs and downtime.
Mitigating Collisions on CAT D10/D11 Dozers
Collision Awareness Solution for Komatsu 830E Haul Truck
Problem: A Komatsu 830E haul truck had collided with a light vehicle (LV) at Alinta Energy’s Leigh Creek Coal Mine in South Australia. The truck was moving forward from a parked position when it hit the light vehicle from the trucks RH corner. While nobody was injured in the incident, the near-miss highlighted just how easily things can go wrong when you mix large blind spots with inactive warning systems.
Problem: During mining operations in an open-cut mine, there has been an increase in reversing incidents between several D10 dozers. In one incident, an operator reversed at speed into the side of another dozer. Not only did this cause considerable damage to both pieces of machinery, the significant costs involved with loss of production had run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Collision Awareness Solution for Hitachi Shovels
Mitigating Collisions on Forklifts
Problem: During operations in a coal mine, there has been an increase in incidents between shovels and heavy haul trucks. In one particular incident, a haul truck parked inside the shovels exclusion zone (i.e. for the on-swinging bucket to load the trucks), the rear of the shovel collided with the front RH side of the haul truck.
Problem: During operation of a 3.5T forklift in a cement production plant, forklifts occasionally collide with rows of packed bricks, the impact can cause the stack to collapse or be pushed onto a fellow forklift operator in the parallel row, thus causing serious injury and damage.
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