Forklift Safety and Telematics with Pathaware®
PathAware® brings collision awareness, operator control, digital inspections, and safety and utilization insights to the forklifts you already run, any brand, leased or owned. Warn operators in the moment. Turn every safety event into actionable intelligence. No cameras. No mandatory pedestrian wearables. No facility-wide RTLS.
One System. From Collision Awareness to Safety Intelligence.
Connected forklift safety and insights right from the cab.
PathAware® is a retrofit forklift safety system designed for the fleet you already operate.
It starts by detecting risks around the vehicle and warning the operator in real time. With PathAware® IQ and IQ+, those same interactions become data your safety team can use to identify patterns, manage operators, improve compliance and understand fleet utilization.
Truly plug and play
Everything runs on the vehicle. No anchors, no facility-wide mesh, no ceiling work, no shutdown to install.
Works across mixed fleets
Brand, model and ownership agnostic, leased or owned. You standardize the safety system without standardizing the fleet.
Start where risk is highest
Deploy on selected vehicles first, then expand across the fleet, across sites or into broader RTLS capabilities over time.
Three Options. One Scalable Platform.
Start with real-time collision awareness. Add connected safety management, compliance and utilization when you need them.
PathAware® Core
Best for sites that need immediate collision-risk reduction without additional capabilities.
- Plug-and-play setup
- Detection of vehicles, objects, and pedestrians without wearables
- Detection of other equipped trucks in blind spots and around corners
- In-cab warnings audible and on screen, showing which side the hazard is on and how close it is
- Adaptive alerting that recognizes a load on the forks
- Customizable alert and distance zones
- Mobile app for system configuration
PathAware® IQ
Best for teams that want to go beyond individual warnings and understand risk across the fleet.
- Everything in PathAware® Core
- Operator identification at the truck, by NFC card or Litum tag
- Forklift access control limited to authorized drivers
- Incident reporting for every warning and near miss, in the PathAware® platform
- Safety reports with trends and site-by-site comparison
- Event history exportable for reviews, audits and insurers
PathAware® IQ+
Best for teams that need complete visibility across safety, compliance and vehicle utilization.
- Everything in PathAware® IQ
- Digital pre-operation inspections completed in the cab before the first move
- Inspection enforcement holding the truck until checks are passed
- Defect reporting with supervisor notification and an open record until resolved
- Utilization reporting covering active time, idle time and engine-on time
- Safety and utilization dashboard for the whole fleet
PATHAWARE IQ and PATHAWARE IQ+
Every Near Miss Becomes Part of the Safety Picture
A warning can protect a moment. The data behind it can help prevent the next one.
PathAware® IQ and IQ+ capture safety events across the fleet and turn them into visual dashboards, helping teams understand where risk concentrates, when it happens and what may be driving it.
Instead of relying only on reported incidents, safety teams gain a broader picture of the interactions happening every day.
See where risk repeats
Recurring collision patterns by area, aisle and time of day.
Compare risk across the fleet
Risk levels across vehicles and shifts, side by side.
Focus training where it matters
Operators and areas that need attention, identified from real events.
Measure progress over time
Whether corrective actions are reducing risk over time, with exportable records for audits.
PATHAWARE IQ and PATHAWARE IQ+
The Onboard Hub Is Where the Operator Meets the Safety Workflow
One screen in the cab handles the warning, the driver check-in and the paperwork that used to live on a clipboard.
- Real-time audiovisual alerts in the cab
- Operator check-in with an NFC card or a compatible Litum tag
- Vehicle access limited to cleared drivers
- Digital pre-operation inspections, completed before the first move
- Collision, near miss, and utilization data, sent to the platform
What PathAware® Does on Your Floor
Detect and Warn
Pedestrians, other vehicles and objects around the forklift, detected on the truck itself and flagged in the cab with configurable audiovisual alerts.
Capture and Understand
Collisions, near misses and risky interactions across the fleet, captured as data and presented as dashboards you can compare and act on.
Control Access and Digitize Inspections
Operators identify themselves at the vehicle with a card, and pre-operation inspections get done before the first move.
Understand Utilization
Active time, idle time and usage patterns per truck, so lease and reallocation decisions come off the same system.
How It Works on the Truck
The system travels with the forklift. Sensors detect what is happening around the vehicle, onboard intelligence evaluates the risk, and the operator receives an immediate warning.
AI Sensor
Detects pedestrians, vehicles and objects around the forklift without requiring pedestrians to wear tags.
Edge Controller
Processes the system onboard the vehicle and enables enhanced forklift-to-forklift awareness, including around blind corners.
ON PATHAWARE® CORE
Operator Display
Provides real-time visual and audible warnings and shows the direction and proximity of detected hazards.
ON PATHAWARE® IQ AND IQ+ · NEW
Onboard Hub
Adds operator identification, connected safety workflows, inspections and event reporting to real-time collision awareness.
Add Protection Where It Is Needed
Add-on capabilities layer onto any tier, so each site can match its own risk profile.
SlowDown
Automatically reduces vehicle speed when a defined risk is detected or when a forklift enters a configured safety area.
ZoneLight
Creates safety zones and hotspots for intersections, pedestrian crossings, restricted areas and speed-control zones, without a full RTLS deployment.
People Tags
Wearable tags that give selected workers direct vibration alerts, for higher-risk roles or areas. Tagless detection stays active as the standard approach underneath.
Not Sure Which Option Fits Your Need?
Answer three questions about how your fleet runs today and see which tier matches, along with any add-ons worth considering.
What do you want your forklifts to do?
Tick everything you need.
Tick at least one to continue.
What happens before the first move of a shift today?
Choose one to continue.
Anywhere you need more than a warning?
Tick what applies, or skip.
Worth adding, based on what you ticked
Expand to Fleet Intelligence RTLS When You Need It
PathAware® stands on its own, and it is also a way into Litum’s wider platform. Add RTLS later and vehicle-level safety and utilization extend into facility-wide vehicle location, traffic and movement analysis, congestion visibility and other operational analytics.
RTLS also unlocks Dynamic Aisle Mode, which stretches the detection area along a forklift’s path in narrow aisles and adjusts as the truck moves.
You get a route from forklift safety to facility-wide operational intelligence without committing to the infrastructure on day one.
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See Safety Awareness in Action
Put your forklift skills to the test in Lift for Speed*, a fictional warehouse game with a touch of PathAware®. Move pallets, navigate the floor and experience collision warnings as part of the challenge.
*For entertainment only. The game does not represent real forklift operation, safety practices or actual PathAware® system performance.
What Forklift Collisions Cost Before You Change Anything
Forklifts are indispensable in modern industrial spaces, but their operation comes with inherent risks. Every year, accidents involving forklifts cause serious injuries and significant financial losses resulting in:
34,900
serious injuries
95
fatalities
$48,000
average cost per injury
$1,390,000
average cost per fatality
Source: OSHA and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics forklift safety estimates.
ROI Calculator
Your incident history, against what the system saves you.
Enter your incident history and select Calculate ROI to see what PathAware® saves you each month and each year.
Why Choose Litum
20+ years of location and safety expertise
PathAware® is not a first attempt at safety hardware. It comes out of RTLS systems that already track more than a million assets and 250,000 people across 300 million square feet of industrial and healthcare space.
Running on 17,000+ forklifts today
This is not a pilot product. It has already run through real aisles, real congestion and real operators, so you are not the site that finds out whether it works on a working floor.
Proven where the stakes are highest
Over 120 customers in over 50 countries run Litum systems, among them Fortune 500 manufacturers, global logistics operators and leading healthcare providers. Every one of those rollouts has fed back into the product you install today.
Hardware and software, in-house
Every part of PathAware®, from the sensor and controller to the dashboards, is designed, manufactured and tested in-house. Nothing waits on a third-party module, so customization, fixes and new features come from the people who built it.
Proven Innovation, Recognized Globally
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is PathAware®?+
A retrofit forklift safety system that installs on the vehicle. It detects pedestrians, vehicles, objects and fixed infrastructure around the truck and warns the operator in real time. Higher tiers turn those detected events into safety intelligence, and add operator check-in and access control, digital pre-operation inspections and utilization reporting through the same on-vehicle system.
What does "safety intelligence" mean here?+
Every risk PathAware® detects can become a record. From IQ upward, those records are captured across the fleet and presented as dashboards: where, when and how risks are occurring, which vehicles, areas, operators and shifts carry the most risk, and whether corrective actions are reducing it over time.
What is the difference between Core, IQ and IQ+?+
Core warns operators as risks appear. IQ turns safety events into intelligence you can act on and adds operator check-in and access control. IQ+ extends that to digital pre-operation inspections and utilization reporting.
What is the Onboard Hub?+
The in-cab device on IQ and IQ+. It delivers real-time collision warnings and, depending on the tier, operator check-in, access control, digital inspections, incident reporting and utilization data. Core runs the Operator Display instead.
Do pedestrians have to wear tags?+
No. Pedestrian detection is tagless, so people are detected without carrying anything, including visitors and contractors. The NFC card or Litum tag used at the Onboard Hub identifies the operator; it is not what detects people on foot.
Do I need RTLS, anchors or a mesh network?+
No. The system travels with the forklift, so it works without anchors, a facility-wide mesh or any other fixed infrastructure. RTLS stays available later as an expansion, not a requirement.
Do I have to equip the whole fleet at once?+
No. Deployment happens truck by truck, so you can start with the vehicles and aisles where risk is highest and expand across the fleet or to other sites from there. Different tiers can run on different vehicles in the same fleet.
I have a mixed fleet of brands and models. Does that matter?+
No. PathAware® is brand and model agnostic, and the retrofit design means counterbalance trucks, reach trucks and order pickers all run the same system. You standardize the safety system without standardizing the fleet, and every vehicle reports into the same dashboards.
My forklifts are leased. Can I still install it?+
Yes. The system is a retrofit that mounts to the truck rather than modifying it, so it suits leased vehicles as well as owned ones. When a lease ends, the hardware comes off and moves to the replacement truck, and the operator, incident and utilization history stays with your account.
How does PathAware® compare with camera-based systems?+
PathAware® runs up to 80% more cost-efficient than computer vision solutions. It needs no multi-camera coverage and no AI model training, so performance is consistent from day one rather than improving over a tuning period. Sensor fusion works in dust, darkness and glare, and detection is processed with minimal latency, where image analysis can delay a warning.
Does PathAware® use cameras or record footage?+
No. Detection is sensor-based rather than camera-based, so there is no video feed, no image storage and no facial recognition anywhere in the system. Nothing about how a person looks is captured or processed.
Does PathAware® support ISO 3691-4?+
Yes. PathAware® aligns with ISO 3691-4 and helps companies meet forklift safety standards without relying on wearable tags. Tagged and hybrid deployments are supported where site requirements call for them.
What is the difference between a warning and automatic slowdown?+
A warning alerts the operator so they can react. Automatic slowdown reduces the vehicle's speed when a defined risk is detected or when the truck enters a configured area. Slowdown is available on any tier through the SlowDown add-on.
How does the commercial model work?+
Core, IQ and IQ+ run on a per-vehicle subscription. Hardware, software, updates and support are covered in one monthly fee per forklift, so there is no capital purchase to approve, and the subscription follows the fleet as trucks are added or retired. Add-ons are available on any tier.
