Safeguarding Every Inch of the Port Area: HIRI AI Enables Mobile Machinery Operations with "Zero Blind Spots and Zero Risks"

In the port yard, where containers are stacked in rows and vehicles shuttle back and forth, mobile machinery such as container trucks, Reach stackers, loaders, and Forklifts bear the heavy responsibility of ensuring the smooth operation of port logistics. However, due to factors such as complex operating environments, large blind spots in drivers' vision, and delays in human operators' reactions, these intricate human-machine interaction scenarios have become potential high-risk areas for safety accidents.

For a long time, the Hong Kong port area has consistently faced a fundamental dilemma in the information-based management of mobile machinery safety: the lack of systematic data support for equipment status, real-time video feeds, early warnings, alarms, and statistical analyses. As a result, managers often rely on experiential judgment and post-event retrospective analysis, making it difficult to achieve proactive awareness of safety risks and precise preventive measures.

 

 

 

How can we crack this dilemma?

HIRI FUTURE is committed to the mission of "promoting safety through technology." By deeply integrating AI visual perception and intelligent control technologies, HIRI FUTURE is developing the "Mobile Machinery-Al Early Warning and Intelligent Collision Prevention System." This system aims to establish a smart safety defense line for port mobile machinery operations— one that is "perceptible, early-warning capable, and controllable"—thus shifting port safety management from being "experience-driven" to "data-driven," and truly achieving improved quality and efficiency in port production safety.

 

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Enable mobile machinery to “see clearly, judge accurately, and brake smoothly.”

 

Traditional mobile machinery operations rely on drivers’ visual observation and experiential judgment. In conditions characterized by numerous blind spots, complex environments, and short reaction times, safety risks are inevitable. The Mobile Machinery-Al Early Warning and Intelligent Collision Prevention System launched by HIRI FUTURE has established an intelligent safety prevention and control system driven by data, featuring collaborative "edge-cloud-end" architecture.

 

 

 

This solution centers on artificial intelligence and integrates IoT and industrial control technologies. It uses intelligent sensing devices at the front end to collect real-time data on vehicle status, driver behavior, and the surrounding environment, then uploads this data to a cloud-based intelligent safety monitoring platform, enabling a closed-loop management system that covers the entire process—from real-time alerts and behavioral analysis to risk intervention and post-event data review. The system features functions such as identity authentication, panoramic view of blind spots, driving behavior monitoring, collision warning, and intelligent assisted braking.

This not only equips individual streaming machines with “risk awareness,” but also, through platform integration, provides management personnel with a visualized and analyzable data dashboard, truly enabling a shift from “human-based defense” to “technology-based defense” and from “single-point control” to “system-wide governance.”

Moreover, to meet the comprehensive safety management needs of terminals across all aspects and at multiple levels, HIRI FUTURE has further launched an intelligent security supervision platform.

 

▲ The image shows one of the platform’s functional interfaces.

 

As a top-level integrated supervision system, this platform boasts powerful data integration and multi-system collaboration capabilities, supporting both centralized group-wide deployment and flexible architectures that allow individual terminals to operate independently. The platform can seamlessly aggregate data from various security subsystems—including those related to the safety of mobile machinery operations—and present it through a unified dashboard, offering an intuitive, panoramic view of the port area’s operational status, including vessels in berth, yard layout, and equipment conditions. This enables “one-screen” unified oversight of mobile machinery safety monitoring information across the entire provincial port group, truly establishing a new intelligent security system that covers the entire port, is compatible with future expansions, and features seamless interconnectivity.

 

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Let's take a look at HIRI's.

"Mobile Machinery-Al Early Warning and Intelligent Collision Prevention System's"

Core Functions and Performance Applications

 

360° panoramic view with no blind spots, visualizing the entire operation process.

The HIRI AI early warning system uses multiple ultra-wide-angle AI cameras to provide a 360° panoramic view around the vehicle, seamlessly stitching together real-time overhead images. Drivers can grasp the entire situation from the Cabin room, completely eliminating visual blind spots. When starting off, turning, or reversing, the system automatically triggers voice alerts, reminding people nearby to pay attention and give way.

 

Intelligently identifies pedestrians and provides tiered warning alerts.
The system defines three levels of warning zones—green, yellow, and red—around the vehicle. As soon as it detects a pedestrian entering these zones, it immediately issues a simultaneous alert via in-vehicle voice prompts and external audio-visual alarms. Additionally, the system dynamically displays the pedestrian’s distance from the vehicle, helping drivers anticipate potential risks in advance and avoid collisions between vehicles and pedestrians.

 

▲ The image shows the safety zone test.

Real-time monitoring of driving behavior, with full traceability of standardized operations.

Through systems such as DMS (Driver Monitoring System), ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), and HOD (Hand-Off Detection), the system can detect violations—including driver fatigue, smoking, making phone calls, failing to wear a seatbelt, and having both hands off the steering wheel—in real time and promptly issue voice alerts. All behavioral data and video evidence are automatically uploaded to the platform, enabling traceability and manageable oversight of driving behavior.

 

Safety supervision is extending from “inside the vehicle” to “outside the vehicle.”

 

The HIRI FUTURE system not only monitors driver behavior but also extends the reach of safety prevention and control to the work site through the intelligent integration of an AI early-warning system and an AI behavior analysis system.

When the system detects a pedestrian entering the flow machine’s warning zone, it not only issues an alert but also automatically uploads live video footage to the AI-based behavior analysis system. This system can identify on-site violations in real time, such as personnel not wearing appropriate attire, failure to wear safety helmets, and non-compliant hot work operations, and simultaneously sends alerts to the management platform. This system extends protection from “collision prevention” to “violation prevention,” establishing a closed-loop safety monitoring framework that covers personnel, vehicles, and the entire operational environment.

Active collision avoidance, intelligent response in critical moments

Unlike traditional collision avoidance solutions that rely on fixed stopping distances, HIRI FUTURE’s AI-based collision avoidance system can dynamically plan and monitor virtual safety zones within the moving machine’s operational range. It precisely identifies various types of targets—including people, vehicles, and equipment—and, based on real-time vehicle speed, relative distance, and motion status data, dynamically sets tiered deceleration and braking zones, thereby implementing customized protection strategies tailored to different directions.

In actual operations, when a Reach stacker equipped with this system encounters an obstacle or pedestrian behind it and the driver fails to respond in time, the system will automatically initiate a stepwise intervention—starting with an alert, followed by deceleration, and finally braking—based on the target object's relative distance and vehicle speed, thereby greatly avoiding or mitigating collision accidents.

 

 

▲ Testing in non-work areas

This mechanism not only intelligently determines the timing for warnings and interventions, effectively preventing collisions, but also avoids the false braking and jerky movements caused by fixed thresholds in traditional approaches. While ensuring safety, it significantly enhances the driving experience and smoothness of operations.

 

Data aggregation and integrated management, digitalization of security management.

All video footage, alarms, trajectories, and behavioral data are uploaded in real time to the “Stream Machine AI Security Management Platform.” Management personnel can use either a PC or a large-screen display to view vehicle status, driver behavior, alarm statistics, and other information in real time, thereby achieving a closed-loop, refined, and visualized security management system—from individual vehicles to entire fleets.

This subsystem platform simultaneously supports vehicle trajectory tracing and historical video playback functions, providing comprehensive and reliable data and visual evidence for accident and incident investigations. It significantly enhances the traceability and closed-loop handling capabilities of safety management, thereby driving the evolution of port machinery operation safety from a “post-event accountability” model toward a systematic governance approach characterized by “end-to-end controllability.”

 

 

“One Image” Builds a New Panoramic Security Ecosystem for Port Areas

Building on this foundation, HIRI’s intelligent security supervision platform further integrates data resources from various terminals and subsystems, enabling a “single-view overview” of fleet safety monitoring information across the entire provincial port group. The platform supports seamless integration with multiple systems, data fusion and analysis, and panoramic visual presentation, boasting high compatibility and scalability. It can flexibly meet both the group’s unified deployment requirements and the independent operational needs of individual terminals. The platform provides real-time detection and immediate alerts for abnormal behaviors such as unauthorized personnel entering restricted areas, vehicles parked illegally, and failure to wear required safety protective equipment, ensuring that potential safety hazards are identified and addressed at the earliest possible moment.

 

 

▲ “Track Playback” interface

 

·Supports multi-system data integration, including vessel berthing information, yard layout, equipment status, and more.

· Deeply integrates AI-powered intelligent analysis capabilities to achieve multi-dimensional smart monitoring, including personnel behavior recognition, vehicle behavior detection, and real-time alerts for abnormal flows.

· Highly compatible and scalable, enabling seamless integration with various security devices.

Through the data dashboard, managers can not only grasp the real-time status of individual vessel tracking devices but also gain a comprehensive overview of the port’s overall operations—including the positioning of vessels at berth, yard layout, equipment distribution, and security conditions—truly achieving an upgrade from point-based security to systemic security and from passive response to proactive prevention in the smart security system.

 

 

 

Currently, HIRI FUTURE's Mobile Machinery-Al Early Warning and Intelligent Collision Prevention System has been widely adopted across the industry, with over 1,000 sets already deployed. It has successfully covered numerous major ports and hub nodes in China, including Tianjin Port, Ningbo Port, Guangzhou Port, Qingdao Port, Nanjing Port, Taicang Port, Zhenjiang Port, Xuzhou Port, Beibu Gulf Port, and Fuzhou Port. The successful implementation of these projects not only demonstrates our strong technological capabilities but also serves as a vivid example of the transformation toward safer operational models in the port industry.

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Safety is predictable, and accidents can be prevented. HIRI FUTURE will continue to deepen its expertise in "AI + Vision + Control" technologies, providing smarter, more reliable, and more scenario-specific solutions that enhance the safety of mobile machinery operations at ports—ensuring that every start-up, every turn, and every operation runs smoothly under the protection of technology.

We integrate system-level thinking—emphasizing “digitalization, security, and green development”—throughout the entire process, from product R&D and system construction to scenario implementation, continuously promoting the deep integration and adaptive evolution of AI technologies across various industries and operating conditions.

HIRI FUTURE has always taken AI as its engine.

Through continuous technological innovation and deep industry engagement.

Human-machine harmony, efficient operations, and controllable accidents.

A new vision for smart ports is becoming a reality.