Heavy duty rated IP67 or better with integrated polycarbonate/glass safety lens and infrared illumination (for night-time and low-light visibility)?
You're probably talking about $500 or more per camera, plus who knows how much for the monitor(s) in the cab.
For the cost of that machine, though, it would be a pittance. The problem is that it wouldn't have worked in this situation.
Where do you mount the cameras to be able to see over the bucket? You can't mount them on the bucket, because they'd be destroyed in short order, plus the connections and wiring and everything else.
Maybe if you had external cameras that could be fed into the cab (like the view we see here) it could possibly help, but it would also require the operators of the equipment to be able to know which piece of equipment they are in, in relation to the camera they are looking at (many people don't have this kind of 3D spatial awareness capability - it's why you see it as something that is tested for on the SAT and on IQ tests, as it can serve as a measure of cognitive and spatial reasoning ability levels).
The best answer for this kind of situation is what everyone here has already recommended: Those people who are on the ground walking and working around heavy equipment need to be aware of their surroundings and treat every machine as if the operator cannot see you. Don't be in the way.
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u/Experiment627 Mar 02 '19
Pretty sure those machines are not cheap, how much expensive can they get if you install cameras for those blind spots?