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‘Creating Safer Working Environments’
Awareness Pack
www.highwayresource.co.uk; www.intellicone.co.uk
“This is what we call innovation
and it comes from the heart. This
brilliant solution can protect site
workers on a daily basis and will
really save lives” Judges
comment Construction News
Awards 2013
Overview
The award winning Intellicone® system is based on a modular wireless sensor network. Originally
developed in collaboration with the highway maintenance industry, it enables the transformation of
existing temporary traffic barrier equipment into an electronic safety perimeter. As a result the system
can detect a barrier strike by a vehicle or the malicious removal of a barrier and relay an alert to a crew
alarm near the workforce irrespective of their distance from the barrier. This enables the workforce to
take evasive action and to reinstate the barrier when it is safe to do so. Contactless sensors enable
detection of works access and work zone breaches by vehicles, plant & equipment and people. In
addition to functioning as an audio-visual alarm the crew alarm will also send text messages of its status
to a site supervisor and upload the same information including GPS location onto the Intellicone®
webportal. This enables automatic status and deployment reporting.
Benefits
Intellicone® is very easy to deploy. For example in highway maintenance, due to the integration of the
sensor technology within standard cone lamps traffic management can be deployed as usual. The
activation of the portable crew alarm (Portable Site Alarm) is also very simple with clear visual indicators
showing system deployment status and alarm.
Sustainable Worker Safety – Giving the work force an extra pair of eyes, providing early warning
of errant or unauthorised vehicle breach to enable evasive action to be take
Operational Efficiency – Breach notification through GSM to site personnel advising exact GPS
location to re-construct a workzone mitigating risk to both workers and road users alike
Temporary Work Site Statistics – Real time uploads to intellicone web portal showing live data,
breach reports and near miss information suitable for contractor and client KPI’s
Case studies / usage
Intellicone is used by a range of term maintenance contractors in the UK including Aone+ (Colas, Costain,
CH2M Hill), Connect Plus Services, Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Enterprise Mouchel, Bear Scotland and HW
Martin amongst others. Over 100 systems are currently in use. Several case studies can be found on
www.intellicone.co.uk. Users have reported the early detection of members of the general public
attempting to move cones at slip road closures on many occasions as well as the detection of taper
strikes and vehicles entering work areas through access points. In all cases the workforce was given
advance warning of potentially dangerous situations enabling them to take evasive action.
Applications - Highways
Intellicone is a modular system that can be used for most temporary road maintenance work sites. In
highway, trunk road, urban and rural work environments it can be used for full road closures, lane
closures, lane change overs, tapers, contraflow, unmanned sites and for the creation of safe working
environments. The latter also includes managing man machine interface where heavy plant and
equipment are in use. Intellicone is also suitable for use on utility project worksites.
Applications – Urban & Interurban
Faced with a congested work environment in construction, utility and local government scenarios
Intellicone can provide an effective advance warning system highlighting non-compliant or unsafe
practices. Tactile deployment of the range can provide increased general public segregation, remote
notification of malicious site equipment removal, protection of heavy plant and wireless transmission
of lateral safety zones capable of detecting both pedestrian and vehicle traffic. To accompany the
obvious audio/visual status indicators, the on-board technology provides full data collection properties
and wireless smart phone connectivity.
Applications – Rail
The technology platform enclosed within the intellicone product capability is a unique mix of different
features well positioned to assist with the growing challenges of rail infrastructure and track and rolling
stock operations delivering benefits in safety, efficiency and quality with respect to personal track safety
and the temporary work site. Created to be deployed as enhancements to the existing SSOW
agreements with the regulators. It can be used effectively as an electronic site warden, speed traps at
temporary speed restrictions, hazard demarcation within the limits of a possession, to dynamically
illuminate the web of the rail wirelessly as heavy plant operates along the rail providing improved
adjacent line open identification and to create both safety perimeters and exclusion zones around
man/machine interfaces and constrained worker proximity tasks. The essence of the solution is built
on a simple, quick to deploy intelligent work apparatus that provides a flexible yet complete site safety
solution that is transferable across a wide variety of operations.
Portable Site Alarms
The Portable Site Alarm (PSA) is the heart of an Intellicone system. It connects to contact and contactless
sensors surrounding it, instantly creating a safer working environment. There are two versions of the
PSA, the ‘Contractor’ version and the ‘Foreman’ version. The Contractor version acts as a local audio
visual alarm, responding to any breach of Intellicone sensors. The Foreman has additional functionality.
It is equipped with a GPRS/GSM and GPS system, which enables it to be connected to secondary
Foreman alarms, thereby enabling the creation of a site of any size and complexity. In addition, the
Foreman also sends status text messages to selected personnel and uploads data onto the Intellicone
web portal.
System overview
Intellicone is fully modular and based on a number of main system components. It is also possible to
combine Intellicone equipment with the ultrasonic beam technology which can be placed across open
gates or around major plant and equipment.
Intellicone® System
Portable Site Alarm - Foreman
Local audio visual alarm plus equipped with GPRS/GSM and GPS. This enables pairing of multiple alarms over unlimited distance enabling use with multiple crews on large worksites. GSM and GPS also enable text
messages to be sent to selected site personnel and enable the Intellicone webportal which will display usage information.
Intellicone Traffic Management Unit (TMU)
Has the same capability as the Foreman Portable Site Alarm minus the audiovisual alarm function. It is capable of receiving alerts from nearby
sensors and can be paired to Intellicone Foreman over unlimited distance. The remote transceiver has an in-built motion detector which will arm
after deployment. This means that it will detect malicious removal. It can therefore also be used to secure barriers or major plant & equipment.
Intellicone® Dorman SynchroGUIDE with Integrated Wireless Impact Sensor
Start of works, lead-in tapers
Intellicone® Dorman ConeLITE with Integrated Wireless Impact
Sensor
Road closure points and longitudinal runs
Intellicone® Sentry
Adjustable 3 meter reflectorless ultrasonic beam with override to secure works entrances and detect unauthorized vehicles
Web Portal - Sim Card and Data Charges per month
Access to full GSM/GPRS/GPS & portal capability within enabled device
Vehicle mounting kit
3 position magnetic back for vehicle/plant mount option
DISCLAIMER: Highway Resource Solutions Ltd reserve the right to make changes to this pricing schedule
at any time.
Modular technology to create a complete yet flexible site safety solution – No master/slave
relationship, set-up or complicated calibration.
Fully inclusive Training, Technical & Deployment Support
All of our rates are fully inclusive of training in both depot & network environments to ensure you receive
complete confidence when using the technology – it’s also been found to be paramount when considering
complete utilisation. Our safety engagement model underpins the way we conduct our business and support
our partners to create safer working environments.