Hyundai touts wheel loader safety feature

Norcross, Georgia-based Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas has announced the availability of an AAVM (All-Around View Monitoring) system on new factory orders of Hyundai HL900 series wheel loaders, which are available in the United States and Canada.

The new system was displayed publicly for the first time at the 2018 World of Concrete Show in Las Vegas, in January 2018, on a Hyundai HL955 wheel loader. AAVM has been available as an option on Hyundai HX series excavators since October 2015.

Equipped with four cameras, including one each mounted on the left- and right-side mirrors, one on the front of the cab, and the standard backup camera mounted to the rear hood, the monitoring system has been designed to provide a 360-degree operating view of the jobsite.

“Safety on the jobsite is a necessity,” says Corey Rogers, a marketing manager with Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas. “Now with the new wheel loader AAVM system on our HL900 series, Hyundai provides owners and operators a safer solution than other options on the market.”

Included in the AAVM system is the IMOD (Intelligent Moving Object Detection) system that senses and warns the operator with onscreen flashing arrows and an alarm when objects come within either of two selectable ranges of the wheel loader (6.5 feet/2 meters, or 22.9 feet/7 meters). The image is integrated into the Hyundai seven-inch color touchscreen cluster-monitor in the cab.

The AAVM system uses Hyundai’s imaging software to display multiple 3-D and 2-D views of the operator’s working environment, including a bird’s-eye view.

“Exclusive features like AAVM and a long list of standard features are combined on the Hyundai HL900 series wheel loaders to give our customers what we call ‘the Hyundai edge’ – performance, convenience, serviceability and, of course, safety,” says Rogers. “The Hyundai edge is the result of innovation, world-class engineering and manufacturing, and components and systems sourced from trusted global suppliers.”

Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas Inc. offers a line of wheel loaders, crawler excavators, wheeled excavators, compaction equipment, hydraulic breakers and forklifts.