The Intelligent Awareness System (IAS) shows the operator what the system detects around the vehicle. The in-cab display is the screen in the operator’s cab. It shows a radar view of the monitored area, the live camera feeds, and an alert when a person, a vehicle, or another object enters a monitored zone.

This guide explains the screens that an operator uses each day. It explains what each screen shows and how to use it.

1.1 What this guide covers
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This guide does not cover:

The settings shown on the device are the operator preferences only. A technician sets the detection zones, the cameras, and the alert outputs during installation. On the device, these values are shown but cannot be changed.

Every screen uses the same frame: a top bar along the top and a navigation bar along the bottom. The screen content sits between them. This section explains the frame and how to move between screens.

When the vehicle powers on, the display shows the start-up screen with the brand logo and the message “System starting up”. The display opens the Home screen when the system is ready. No operator action is needed during start-up.

Figure 1 - Start-up

The top bar is shown on every screen. It has three parts:

Figure 2 - Top bar

• Brand logo — on the left.

• Clock — in the centre. The clock shows the current time. It follows the time zone and the

time format set in Settings (see Settings).

• Day / Night control — on the right. This control shows the current display mode: Auto, Day, or Night. Tap it to change the mode without opening Settings. Auto changes the mode to suit the light in the cab. Day uses a bright, high-contrast theme. Night uses a dimmed theme for low light.

When the display is being controlled remotely — a technician operating the display app from the configuration tool, not the vehicle — the whole top bar flashes green and shows the message “Remotely Controlled” in place of the clock. See Remotely Controlled.
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The bottom navigation bar moves between the main areas of the display:

Figure 3 - Bottom navigation bar

• Menu — opens the menu. The menu is the launcher for Alerts, Display View, Camera Status, Configuration, and Settings. See Menu.

• Home — opens the live monitoring screen and shows all cameras. See Home Screen.

• Notifications — opens the notifications list. A red dot on this button shows that there are unread notifications. See Notifications.

• Safe To Approach — turns the vehicle’s Safe To Approach indicator green to signal that an isolated vehicle is safe to approach. Shown only when the device has the indicator. See Safe To Approach.

The menu screens open one on top of another. Each menu screen has a header with:

• A back arrow on the left. Tap it to return to the previous screen.

• A breadcrumb trail (for example Menu › Settings › Display). Tap any step in the trail to jump straight to that screen.

A small radar circle floats over the Menu and Notifications screens. It is hidden on the Home screen. The floating radar mirrors the live radar, so the operator keeps sight of detections while using the menu. Tap the floating radar to return to the Home screen and show all cameras. Drag it to move it out of the way; it docks to the nearest side of the screen when released.

The Home screen is the live monitoring view. It is the screen that the display shows during normal operation. The screen has two areas: the camera area at the top and the radar panel at the bottom.

Figure 4 - Home screen - All camera overview

The camera area shows the live camera feeds. It has two views:

• Overview — shows all cameras in a grid. Each tile shows one live feed and the camera name (for example Front Left or Back Right). Tap a tile to show that camera on its own.

• Single camera — shows one camera across the full width. Swipe left or right to move between cameras. The dots below the feed show which camera is active. Tap a dot to jump to that camera.

Figure 5 - Camera area - all camera overview

Figure 6 - Camera area - single camera

To return to the overview, tap Home on the bottom navigation bar, or tap the centre of the radar.

Each feed shows the camera name. When the zone overlay is turned on, the feed also shows the detection zone lines (see Display and Alert Preferences). If a camera image is too dark or a camera has failed, the feed shows a badge in place of the picture — see Faults on the Home Screen.

The radar panel is at the bottom of the screen. It has the radar in the centre and the object indicator down the left side.

Figure 7 - Radar Panel

The radar shows the vehicle in the centre and the zones monitored around it. Each sector of the radar matches one camera’s coverage. The sector colour shows the state of that direction:

• Neutral — no detection.

• Amber — a warning detection.

• Red — a critical detection.

A sector pulses while a detection is active. Tap a sector to show that camera on its own. Tap the centre of the radar to return to the overview.

Pause. While the system is actively alerting, the centre of the radar shows an arrow. When the vehicle is isolated, a pause icon replaces it: the system is paused and is not generating alerts, so no sector changes colour for a detection and no alert tone sounds until it resumes actively alerting.

Focus ring. When you view a single camera, a blue ring is drawn around that camera’s sector on the radar. The ring shows which direction the camera on screen covers, so you keep your bearings while looking at one feed. In the all-camera overview no sector is ringed, because every camera is already shown.

The object indicator is the column of icons on the left of the radar. It shows the object types that the system monitors: people, vehicles, and safety cones. Each icon shows whether that object type is active, and turns amber or red when that object type is in a warning or critical detection.

While you are viewing a single camera, the display can switch to another camera on its own so the one with a new hazard comes up without you swiping to it. It switches to the most urgent detection — a critical detection has priority over a warning.

Switching happens only on the change from all-clear to a detection — when a detection appears while every sector was normal. If a detection is already active and another one starts on a different sector, the display stays on the current camera; it does not jump to the new one.

This works only in the single-camera view. The all-camera overview is never interrupted: every camera is already on screen there, so the display does not switch away from it.

This is the Auto focus preference. Turn it on or off under Menu › Alerts › Focus behaviour — see Auto focus.

If no cameras are configured, the camera area shows “No cameras configured”. If no alert configuration is loaded, the radar panel shows “No alert configuration”. Both messages mean that a technician must check the device configuration.

An alert tells the operator that the system has detected an object in a monitored zone. This

section explains the alert levels and the alert signals.

The system uses two alert levels:

• Warning — an object is in the warning zone. The warning zone is the outer zone, further from the vehicle.

• Critical — an object is in the critical zone. The critical zone is the inner zone, close to the vehicle. A critical alert has priority over a warning alert.

A technician sets the size and the shape of each zone during installation.

When an alert is active, the display shows the alert in several ways at the same time:

• The matching radar sector turns amber (warning) or red (critical) and pulses.

• The matching camera feed shows a coloured glow around its edge.

• The object indicator turns amber or red for the detected object type.

• On the single-camera view, a row of object labels (for example Person or Vehicles) appears over the feed.

• An alert tone sounds, if the tone is enabled for that zone. A technician enables or disables the warning tone and the critical tone during installation.

Figure 8 - Warning detection - Day mode and night mode

Figure 9 - Critical detection - Day mode and night mode

The Home screen shows a camera or camera fault as soon as it happens, so a problem is visible during normal operation without opening a menu. This section explains what a fault looks like on the Home screen. To check a camera on purpose, or to see the steps that resolve a fault, use Camera Status.

A camera is in one of two fault states:

• Degraded — the camera still shows a picture, but its image quality is reduced, so detections are turned off for that camera.

• Failed — the camera has stopped responding. There is no picture, and there are no detections for that camera.

Figure 10 - Degraded and failed cameras - Day and night mode

A fault is marked on the camera tile in the overview and on the single-camera view:

• A degraded camera shows its picture with a Camera view degraded badge.

• A failed camera shows a dark tile with a crossed-out camera icon and a Camera fault badge, in place of the picture.

Figure 11 - Degraded camera - Day and night mode

Figure 12 - Failed camera - Day and night mode

The sector of a degraded or a failed camera turns grey on the radar. A grey sector does not pulse and does not change colour for a detection, because that direction is not being monitored. A healthy camera keeps its normal sector colour. The same grey sector is shown on the floating radar over the menu screens, so the fault stays visible while you use the menu.

The exact shade of the grey follows the display theme: in day mode the faulted sector is a darker grey against the light healthy sectors, and in night mode it is a lighter grey against the dark healthy sectors. Either way it is the same muted, non-pulsing sector — compare the day and night examples above.

When a fault occurs, a red dot appears on the Notifications button in the bottom navigation bar. Open Notifications to read the fault message and the short guidance for it. See Notifications.

Figure 13 - Active notifications badge

The Notifications screen collects the messages from the device. Open it with the Notifications button on the bottom navigation bar. A red dot on the button shows that there are unread messages.

Figure 14 - Notifications - messages present

The chips at the top filter the list. Each chip shows the number of unread messages in that

group:

• All — every notification.

• System — device and camera messages, for example a camera that goes offline.

• Checklist — pre-operation checklist items.

Each message is a card. A coloured bar on the left shows the level of the message: critical, warning, or info. An unread message has a coloured dot and full brightness; a read message is dimmed.

• Tap a card to mark that message as read.

• Tap Mark all read in the header to mark every message as read.

When there are no messages to show, the screen reads “You’re all caught up.”

Figure 15 - Notifications - all caught up

Some vehicles carry a Safe To Approach indicator on the outside of the vehicle. When the vehicle has been isolated (shut down so it can no longer move), the operator can use the Safe To Approach button on the display to turn that indicator green and let ground crew come up to the vehicle. This section explains the button and how to use it.

The Safe To Approach button is shown only when the device is configured for the Safe To Approach indicator. A technician sets this up during installation. If the button is not shown, the feature is not fitted to the vehicle and no operator action is needed.

Figure 16 - Safe to approach button on the bottom navigation bar

Pressing the button turns the vehicle’s Safe To Approach indicator green. The green indicator tells people on the ground that the vehicle is isolated and it is safe to approach, so they can walk up to a vehicle that would otherwise be kept clear.

Safe To Approach only controls the indicator. It does not change, confirm, or clear the detection alerts on the display — those still follow the same rules, see Alerts.

The Safe To Approach button is on the far right of the bottom navigation bar and shows a thumbs-up icon. Tap it to turn the indicator green; tap it again to clear the signal.

• The button turns green while the signal is active, matching the indicator.

• The button shakes and flashes red with a cross icon if the system does not accept the change. If this happens, tap it again.

A technician can connect to the display from the configuration app to check or change how the device is set up. While that connection is active, the display shows that it is being controlled remotely.

The whole top bar flashes green and the clock is replaced with the message Remotely Controlled. The message clears and the clock returns as soon as the remote session ends.

Figure 17 - Top bar - Remotely controlled

The rest of the display keeps working as normal: the cameras, the radar, and the alerts all continue to update, so you can keep monitoring while a remote session is in progress.

The Menu is the launcher for the display’s tools. Open it with the Menu button on the bottom navigation bar.

The menu has five items:

• Alerts — set how the display reacts to a new detection. See Display and Alert Preferences.

• Display View — set what is drawn over the camera feeds and how the camera grid is laid out. See Display and Alert Preferences.

• Camera Status — check the health of each camera. See Camera Status.

• Configuration — review the alert zones and the object types that the device detects. See Configuration.

• Settings — set the display, view the device information, and set the time. See Settings. Tap an item to open it. Use the back arrow at the top left, the breadcrumb trail, or the bottom navigation bar to return.

The Camera Status screen shows the health of each camera around the vehicle. Open it with Menu › Camera Status. Use this screen to confirm that every camera works before and during operation. The same faults also appear on the Home screen as you operate — see Faults on the Home Screen.

Figure 18 - Camera status - a camera operating normally

Each sector of the radar is one camera. A healthy camera keeps its normal sector colour. A degraded or a failed camera turns its sector grey and marks it with a fault icon — an amber icon for a degraded camera, a red icon for a failed one — so a problem is easy to see.

Tap a sector to select it. A blue ring marks the selected sector. The screen then shows, for the selected camera:

• The camera’s position and field of view on the vehicle diagram.

• A live preview of that camera. Tap the preview to show it full-screen.

• A status card below (see the next section).

The status card shows one of these states for the selected camera:

• Operating normally — the camera works and reports no faults.

• Image Degraded — image quality is reduced, so detections are turned off for this camera. The card lists the steps to resolve it (clean the lens; check for mud, dust, or condensation; make sure nothing blocks the view; check the light in the zone).

• Camera Failed — the camera has stopped responding. You cannot view this zone or receive detections for it until it recovers. The card lists the steps to resolve it (check the cable and connector; inspect for damage or water; power-cycle the unit; contact support with the camera location if the fault continues).

Figure 19 - Camera status - a degraded camera selected

Figure 20 - Camera status - a failed camera selected

If no camera is selected, the card reads “Select a sector on the radar to view its status.” If no camera configuration is loaded, the screen reads “Camera status unavailable.”

The Configuration screen shows how the device is set up for this vehicle. Open it with Menu › Configuration. The screen is read-only. A technician sets these values during installation.

The screen has two tabs: Overview and Alert zones.

Figure 21 - Configuration - overview tab

The Overview tab shows a top-down diagram of the vehicle. The diagram shows each camera and its zones. The legend marks the Critical zone and the Warning zone.
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Below the diagram, the “Current configuration” panel lists:

• Name — the vehicle name.

• Objects being detected — the object types the device detects, for example People, Vehicles, and Cones.

• Alert trigger — the condition that arms the alerts, for example a reverse signal. There may be more than one trigger.

• External alert — an output that the system drives on an alert, for example a Halo light. The mode is shown next to each output (for example Solid, Slow, or Fast). There may be more than one external alert.

Figure 22 - Configuration - alert zones tab

The Alert zones tab shows the same camera radar as the Camera Status screen. Tap a sector to see that camera’s zone and field-of-view diagram and a live preview. This tab shows the zone shapes only; it does not show the camera fault card. To check camera health, use Camera Status.

The Settings screen holds the operator preferences. Open it with Menu › Settings. The settings are grouped under Interface and General.

Figure 23 – Settings

Open Settings › Display to set the brightness mode. There are three modes:

• Auto — the display adjusts to the light in the cab.

• Day — a bright, high-contrast theme.

• Night — a dimmed theme for low light.

Figure 24 - Settings – Display

The brightness mode also sets the day / night theme of the display. It is the same control as the Day / Night control in the top bar.

Open Settings › System to view the device and software information. This screen is read-only.

Figure 25 - Settings – System

The screen shows:

• Software version

• Vision model version

• Hardware version

• Device serial number

Give these values when you contact Hexagon support, so the device and the software version can be identified.

Open Settings › Time to set the time zone and the time format.

Figure 26 - Settings – Time

• Time zone — set the zone with the Region and City lists. Tap each list and choose a value; no keyboard is needed.

• Time format — choose 24-hour (for example 15:37) or am / pm (for example 3:37 pm).

The time zone and the format set the clock in the top bar and the timestamps shown on the display.

The Menu has two more items that set how the display behaves: Alerts and Display View.

These preferences change the display only. They do not change the detection zones or the cameras.

Open Menu › Alerts › Focus behaviour to set auto focus.

Figure 27 - Alerts - Focus Behaviour

• Auto focus — when this is on, the display switches to the camera that has a new detection. This applies only in the single-camera view. Auto focus is on by default.

Open Menu › Display View to reach the two display-view items: Overlay and Overview Layout.

Figure 28 - Display View Menu

Open Menu › Display View › Overlay to set the zone overlay.

Figure 29 - Display View – Overlay

• Zone Overlay — when this is on, the display draws the detection zone lines over each camera feed. The zone overlay is off by default.

Open Menu › Display View › Overview Layout to change the camera grid.

Figure 30 - Display View - Overview Layout

On this screen you can:

• Choose a grid layout for the current number of cameras.

• Drag a camera slot onto another slot to swap their positions.

The changes are not applied until you save them:

• Save — apply the layout to the camera overview. The display asks you to confirm.

• Reset — restore the default layout and camera order. The display asks you to confirm.

If you leave the screen with unsaved changes, the display asks whether to discard them.

Contact Hexagon support for help with the device. Give the software version, the hardware version, and the device serial number from Settings › System (see Settings).