According to Katie Voelliger, product marketing manager at John Deere,” SmartDetect is a important addition to our portfolio of precision construction technology solutions, designed to help users safely understand and maximize efficiency on busy building places.” ” Safety is a shared obligation, and we’re excited to remain developing solutions that enable users to function more safely and effectively”.
Prioritizing operator awareness, understanding and knowledge, SmartDetect mixes cameras and equipment learning to help provide operators a watch of their surroundings. SmartDetect utilizes the computer’s integrated digital cameras and a dedicated back high-resolution screen to complement driver’s jobsite presence. The stereo camera on the machine’s back allows for depth perception to recognize and classify known objects for awareness.
When an object enters the camera’s projected travel path, the SmartDetect system provides detection alerts for the operator as well as for those inside the field of view. With this perception system, the operator is shown visual cues and bounding boxes, which aid in distinguishing and highlighting different kinds of obstacles. By identifying fixed or moving objects such as people, poles, structures or other machinery, vision technology provides information to the operator.
According to Nathan Demski, product manager, John Deere,” Our customers continue to tell us technology solutions that help operators identify the most valuable asset on their jobsites, their people, is an area of high importance.” Operators have long days, and it’s difficult for them to maintain their level of situational awareness throughout the day. Another tool in the toolbox is SmartDetect, which they can use to boost their self-assurance and become more aware of what’s happening on the jobsite.
Select loader models in the utility and production classes that already have the John Deere Advanced Vision System and Advanced Object Detection technology are eligible for Field Kits to incorporate SmartDetect.
