Safety Sensors

Safety Sensors

PILZ SAFETY SENSORS

A global leader in automation technology, PILZ offers a range of safety solutions that meets international standards and certifications, including safety switches for monitoring positions, and guards.

Pilz Australia Safety Sensors

Why PILZ?

PILZ safety sensors:

  • Suit a wide range of applications
  • Embody diverse technologies – eg mechanical, magnetic, RFID, optical or camera-based
  • Offer high availability and productivity with maximum safety
  • Focus on performance, robustness and simple operation
  • Save time and costs during project design and commissioning
  • Comply with international standards and certifications
  • Are compatible with products and interfaces from other manufacturers
  • Provide a complete solution – sensor technology, control technology, drive technology and visualisation

PILZ Safety Sensors FAQs

NAVTECH RADAR SAFETY SENSORS

As the Australian partner for Navtech Radar, Teksal Safety provides a range of safety sensors for diverse applications and challenging conditions, including industrial automation and autonomous vehicles, stockpile monitoring and anti-collision scenarios.

  • Industrial Automation & Autonomous Vehicles

    Installed on mining machines, Navtech radars can be used for a range of applications, including navigation, anti-collision, obstacle detection, stockpile measurement and situational awareness.

    Ideal for the Australian market, the industrial-grade sensors are designed with extreme conditions and environments in mind, to withstand severe vibrations and with radar vision unaffected by dust, dirt, mud and fog.

  • Why radar?

    Operating independently and unaffected by rain, fog, dirt or dust, these 360° radar sensors bring a new level of performance to the autonomous vehicle market for all-weather sensing.

    Unlock the potential of your automation processes with Terran360, the radar localisation solution. Combining radar technology with world-leading autonomous vehicle software, it delivers never-seen-before pinpoint accurate localisation, in even the harshest environments.

    The Navtech Radar OEMSensors are also used in cutting-edge autonomous vehicle research and are transforming industries such as ports, mines, marine, rail and yard management by delivering perception and localisation information to vehicles with unrivalled availability

  • Automation in challenging conditions
    • Reliable performance in adverse conditions – rain, fog, dust or dirt
    • High-resolution, 360°, long-range radar builds a data-rich picture of its surroundings
    • Working beyond the limits of a person’s capability, Navtech Radar sensors can see when humans can’t, adding an extra layer of safety to challenging environments
    • Unrivalled availability, you can operate your site 24/7 safely and efficiently

    Navtech Radar sensors are ROS compatible, quick to integrate and provide full access to the radar’s raw data.

    Teskal Safety sources, supplies and provides technical support for a range of Navtech Radar products for mining, marine, rail, security, traffic management or other applications, including:

    • Autonomous vehicles
    • Stockpile monitoring
    • Anti-collision

Radar Safety Sensors FAQs

  • Why is radar needed for autonomy?

    Radar is the only technology that can be relied on 100% of the time in all-weather conditions, meaning safety and availability can be guaranteed. This is essential if autonomous solutions are to be as good as or better than their human counterparts. The Navtech Radar sensor is a field-tested solution that works today and will continue to work for the next 10 years in some of the harshest industrial settings on earth.

  • How many Radar Sensors do I need?

    The number of radars required, and the radar model, depends on the context. While we can make estimates based on maps and drawings, an accurate site design can only be made following a site survey. We use an online planning tool for the initial estimates and the designs can be shared with customers to visualise how a site would be covered with different radar models.

  • Why is our radar data such high-quality?

    Radar resolution is defined by the frequency bandwidth and wavelength of the radar signal. The smaller the wavelength, the better the range resolution. We operate in the millimetre range, meaning our sensors are high-resolution.

  • Is the radar ROS compatible?

    Yes, the radar is ROS compatible. Within the Software Development Kit SDK there is an example ROS application to get a project started. This includes publishing radar data as a pointcloud, laserscan and object identification options.

  • How is the Navtech Radar different from lidar?

    The radar beam is not a pencil beam-like a laser, but has a 3D profile with this in mind. It is more like a touchlight than a laser. Since the radar returns a value from every range measurement, it can see through noisy objects, something that most time-of-flight sensors can’t.

    By “seeing” past the first detection the radar is unlike a lidar. By splitting each azimuth into an array of radially spaced intensity values the radar provides an extra dimension that a lidar can’t. This enables the radar to build up top-down “photo”-like images – something a lidar unit can’t do without implementing multiple channels.

    Another crucial difference between the Navtech Radar and a lidar is its ability to work through adverse weather conditions. The longer wavelength of the radar signal is not affected by dust, fog, rain or snow , so the sensor can be used in all scenarios, giving it a large operating window. And, because it doesn’t have a lens it doesn’t require cleaning.

Download Navtech Radar brochure

For more information about the industrial safety solutions our skilled and experienced team provides, download our Navtech Radar brochure.

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Learn more about safety sensors

For more information about our safety sensors or any of our Machine & Automation Safety products, call 1300 TEKSAL or email sales@teksal.com.au.