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NaviFra’s Navi-Infra Collision-Prevention System Heads to Kia Plants
MoneyToday reported that NaviFra, working with Hyundai WIA, launched Navi-Infra — ceiling- and pillar-mounted cameras that prevent collisions between forklifts, robots and workers — for Kia’s production logistics sites.
Rather than relying on each vehicle’s sensors or a driver’s line of sight, Navi-Infra watches the whole space through high-precision cameras on ceilings or pillars and detects everything that moves. It is due to go into Kia production logistics sites, where Hyundai WIA supplies the automation equipment, from the end of this year.
Without tags, it identifies manned and unmanned forklifts, AMRs and workers, tracks their paths and speeds, and predicts collision risk. When it sees one coming it triggers warning lights and alarms and tells unmanned equipment to slow down or stop.
Rather than forcing each machine to see further, we add one more eye that looks down on the whole space.