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AUSTRALIAN INNOVATION PREVENTS INJURIES
Melbourne, Australia
Friday, 29 Sep 2000
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Detection of forklifts and other moving plant is a major health and safety issue in warehouses and factories around the world.
But an Australian technology company is leading the way in infra-red detection devices.
Victorian-based Amskan Ltd, a systems integrator specialising in radio frequency data capture, has developed a system in which moving plant triggers remote alarms and warning systems to alert pedestrians to its impending presence.
Fork-Alert has an onboard, invisible, infra-red beacon(r)MD+IT¯(r)MD-IT¯, which emits a coded beam, one or more infra-red receivers, a zone controller and a warning system.
Amskan managing director Fred Clerk said Fork-Alert was used in some of Australia's largest forklift-using operations. Mr Clerk said he was also seeking international markets.
"We developed the technology late last year, and made it available to the market at the beginning of 2000," Mr Clerk said.
He said Fork-Alert supplemented normal driver warnings, such as the reverse gear tone, and would be "extremely good" for noisy operations where forklift warnings were difficult to hear.
Adaptable to indoor and outdoor applications, Fork-Alert read distances were configurable, allowing operators to vary warning times.
Mr Clerk said the system could be set up to trigger alarms, flashing lights, and to open locked doors.
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