Every vendor in this market sells its own technology as the answer, which makes the market hard to read from inside any one brochure. This page maps the vendors we track onto the four system families, based on each company’s own published product positioning (snapshotted and dated below), so you can shortlist by architecture first and brand second. We sell none of these systems; the descriptions summarize what each vendor says about its own product.
Camera-AI detection vendors
Trio Mobil mounts an AI camera on the truck and ranges against UWB tags in the same system. The company describes the camera as the layer for people who carry no tag and the tags as the layer where racking or a corner blocks the view, with zone speed reduction and fleet telemetry on the same platform. Blaxtair is a camera-AI name: onboard vision that distinguishes a person from an obstacle, with separate vehicle and obstacle detection modes, a Zoning module for automatic speed reduction in risk areas, and a Connect analytics layer. Speedshield pairs its AiVA camera pedestrian detection with site telemetry and zone controls for high-risk areas. If your site cannot enforce a tag rule, this family, profiled in depth on our camera pedestrian detection page, is where your shortlist starts. Some sites pair this family with a tag layer; the mixed-deployment note further down explains why.
Tag-based proximity vendors
Trio Mobil’s tag layer is UWB: a unit on the truck measures its distance to a tag worn by a pedestrian or to the unit on another truck, and fixed zone anchors mark areas where trucks slow on entry. The company describes speed reduction in one or two phases, and sells the tags alongside its Trio Safe AI camera for people without one. ELOKON’s ELOshield is a UWB proximity system with configurable warning and protection zones, described as OEM-independent and easy to install, with module variants down to shieldGO for vehicle-to-pedestrian coverage. SensorZone builds its UWB offer around a detection–alerting–intelligence loop and reports global deployments. HIT-NOT takes the contrarian route: low-frequency magnetic-field detection rather than radio, which the company positions as dependable around obstructions and metal, reporting more than 1,850 deployments protecting people, assets, and structures. The trade-offs of the whole family, mutual warning through racking, in exchange for tag discipline, are covered on our proximity detection page.
Multi-layered AI and UWB platforms
Some providers combine camera detection with tag-based proximity sensing rather than relying on either technology alone, because the two cover different gaps. An AI camera can detect a pedestrian who wears no tag, but only within its view; UWB measures the distance between equipped people and trucks without a clear line of sight, but it sees tags, not people.
Trio Mobil is an example of this multi-layered design. The company describes Trio Safe AI as forklift-mounted MOBIL-AI cameras combined with UWB proximity technology, connecting tagless pedestrian detection and tag-based proximity sensing in one forklift safety system, and lists configurable alerts, zone-based controls and automatic slowdown through integration with compatible forklift speed-control systems. Our dual-mode detection explainer covers what to test when you quote one.
Platform and RTLS vendors
Wipelot’s SafeZone couples UWB real-time location with collision warning, including silent-zone and adaptive-zone variants, the shape of the active collision avoidance family, where zones and automatic behavior matter as much as detection. SIERA.AI attacks from the truck side: pedestrian-safety cameras plus impact sensing and operator access control on the same hardware, retrofittable across gas, electric, and LP trucks.
Individual brand reviews now sit on the blog, each with the alternatives worth quoting alongside it: Trio Mobil, Blaxtair, ELOKON ELOshield, HIT-NOT, SensorZone, ZoneSafe, SIERA.AI and ALIS Tech.
The telematics and services layer
Three suppliers sit beside this market rather than inside it, and buyers meet them constantly. Speedshield sells detection and telematics as interlocking modules, covered module by module in our Speedshield review. Samsara is a connected-operations platform that tracks a forklift as one more powered asset; it is strong on visibility and not built for in-aisle detection, which our Samsara guide sets out. Fleet Team sells neither, offering brand-agnostic fleet management and operator training instead, and is reviewed in our Fleet Team guide.
The whole data layer is compared in forklift telematics systems compared, including the OEM programmes from Crown and Raymond that this detection-focused map leaves out.
What this market’s structure tells you
Three patterns stand out once the brochures are side by side. First, the architectures are converging on intervention: camera vendors added zoning and speed control, tag vendors added protection zones, the market has concluded that warning alone under-delivers, which matches the flat decade in our injury data. Second, analytics is the new battleground: nearly every vendor now logs proximity or intervention events, because buyers learned that a system which cannot prove its saves cannot defend its renewal. Third, nobody owns the whole stack well: camera specialists, tag specialists, and platform vendors each carry a genuine edge in their home territory, which is why mixed deployments, vision at the docks, tags in the aisles, keep appearing on large sites. Some platform vendors now sell a camera layer and a tag layer together, and each layer still needs testing against its own hazard. A shortlist built across families, rather than within one, prices that reality in from the start instead of discovering it during rollout.
How to use this map
Shortlist two vendors from the family your exposure points at, the Risk Scorer makes that call in minutes, and one from a neighboring family, which acts as a live control on your assumptions about what the site actually needs. Send all three the same pinned scope (trucks, tags, intervention yes/no, installation, logging) and compare on measured performance in your worst aisle, not brochure range. Head-to-head notes for common pairings are in our comparisons of Blaxtair vs ELOKON ELOshield, HIT-NOT vs SensorZone, Trio Mobil vs Blaxtair and Trio Mobil vs Speedshield. How to vet the company behind a system is in our provider guide. Vendor claims above are the companies’ own; verify anything decision-critical in your pilot, and weigh it against your state’s injury data.