Automotive-Beacons System

Abstract

Automotive Beacons System  are a small, low-energy device that can be installed or positioned almost anywhere. The new Beacons ABC addresses all those who work directly or indirectly with beacons, purchase them, or those who would simply like to know more about them. Each of these groups bear in their own capacity responsibility for the safety of people, vehicles and loads. Whether in the agricultural or municipal sector, or as a driver on country roads. The right beacon on a vehicle can increase safety substantially. With this ABC, we would like to contribute to making your decision to find the right beacon for the matching application easier. This decision is not easy and we would like you to be able to base it firmly on the knowledge in this ABC.

A blue flashing light together with a siren may only be used in matters of the upmost urgency to save human lives or avert any severe threat to health, to prevent any threat to public safety or order, to pursue any person attempting to escape, or to preserve property. It rules: “All other road-users must clear the way immediately” A blue flashing light alone may only be used by the vehicles equipped with one and only to warn of any accident or other deployment locations, on emergency calls, or when escorting vehicles or closed vehicle formations.

The luminous intensity that warning lights emit is particularly important to be visible in heavy traffic. The luminous intensity is generally measured in candela (cd), whereby this information is calculated as follows: 1 cd = 1 lux to 1 m distance.There is no general answer to this question. Even for identical areas of application, for example, on a tractor, there is no uniform response.