The modern warehouse is evolving rapidly. Automation, IoT, and advanced analytics are transforming how materials are moved, stored, and managed. But no matter how advanced a facility becomes, safety must remain at the core – especially when it comes to forklift operations.
Why Safety is the Backbone of Smart Warehousing
Smart warehouses prioritize speed, precision, and efficiency. But even a minor forklift incident can disrupt operations, damage inventory, or worse – injure personnel. Integrating intelligent safety systems into warehouse design is not only about compliance; it’s about sustaining performance.
Forklifts Are Still One of the Greatest Risks
Despite automation gains, forklifts remain one of the most used vehicles in warehouses. They also remain one of the top causes of industrial accidents. High-traffic areas, narrow aisles, and shared work zones make traditional safety methods like mirrors or horns inadequate.
Building Safety into Your Tech Stack
Many operations leaders focus on WMS, robotics, and data platforms when digitizing warehouses – but leave safety systems out of the conversation. Proximity detection solutions like PathAware are essential to a truly smart warehouse.
These systems help you:
- Prevent injuries and downtime
- Increase worker confidence and compliance
- Capture safety-related events and trends over time
PathAware: Safety That Keeps Up With Smart Operations
PathAware by Litum is a tagless, real-time forklift safety system designed to keep pace with modern logistics environments – today and into the future.
How It Elevates Smart Warehouses:
- Proximity awareness without wearables: Detects people and obstacles instantly.
- All-around coverage: Front, rear, and side detection to eliminate blind spots.
- Quick deployment: Plug-and-play installation on any forklift.
- Data-ready foundation: Can support analytics on safety events and near misses.
Whether you’re scaling automation or optimizing throughput, PathAware ensures that your progress doesn’t come at the cost of safety.
Built to Scale with Your Warehouse
PathAware starts with what matters most: safety. By providing real-time proximity detection and 360° blind spot coverage, it significantly reduces the risk of collisions between forklifts, pedestrians, and other equipment. Its tagless design means protection is always active – no reliance on human behavior, no gaps in detection.
But PathAware isn’t just a standalone safety system. It’s designed to evolve with your warehouse operations. As your needs grow, you can build on the PathAware infrastructure to scale into a full ultra-wideband (UWB) mesh network.
With this expansion, you unlock powerful operational insights beyond safety:
- Forklift tracking and movement history: See real data on routes, idle time, and utilization.
- Performance analytics: Understand bottlenecks, zone congestion, and travel patterns.
- Facility-wide RTLS applications: Lay the groundwork for asset tracking, worker flow analysis, and advanced automation support.
This modular approach means you can start small with critical safety enhancements and scale up into a smart warehouse – without needing to reinvest in new systems.
PathAware is more than just a forklift safety tool. It’s a strategic asset that grows with your operations, helping you drive both protection and performance.
