A forklift safety system for intralogistics has to handle mixed traffic, meaning manned forklifts, tuggers, automated vehicles and people on foot, across aisles, dock doors, production entrances and crossings without slowing the whole site. That usually means a layered setup: detection of pedestrians around each truck, fixed warnings at the crossings where flows meet, and speed limits applied only in the zones that need them. Because intralogistics fleets often mix truck brands, ages and power types, the system should be retrofittable across all of them, with automatic slowdown reserved for compatible forklifts that expose a speed-control interface.
Start from a flow map rather than a product list: mark where pedestrian routes and vehicle routes cross, where automated vehicles share space with manned trucks, and where docks and line-side delivery points concentrate movements. Each crossing gets a control, ranked from physical separation down to warnings, as set out in a traffic management plan.
Automated guided vehicles carry their own safety functions under ISO 3691-4 and ANSI/ITSDF B56.5, so check how a forklift detection system coexists with them rather than assuming one covers the other. Retrofit questions, including whether each truck model has a speed interface, are covered in retrofitting a mixed fleet.