The office environment can be a busy place, and unexpected things happen when we are actively working. With everything going on, it can be easy to forget about the objects on, under, and around your sit-stand or height adjustable desk. Sometimes, these items you forget can be accidentally crushed or broken when you move your desk down. To help protect the little and big things in the office, LINAK developed a brand new Anti-Collision solution.
The new gyroscope-based solution is called Desk Sensor 1 (DS1). It senses both hard and soft obstacles and integrates easily with most LINAK desk systems. The sensor is an entirely new Anti-Collision solution for desks. It is smaller than your normal USB flash drive – about the size of your ballpoint pen lid. Designed to be Plug & Play, the small unit can easily be added to your LINAK desk systems.
Intelligent gyroscopic unit senses soft and hard obstacles
The cornerstone of this new and intelligent way of providing desk protection is a sensitive gyroscope unit inside the DS1. It enables the small and compact plug-in adapter to detect even little tilting of the desk’s tabletop – regardless of whether the desk is driving up or down. Once it detects even the slightest tilt, movement stops and drives the desk in the opposite direction to minimize collision and avoid damage to the desk or anything else.
Another advantage of the DS1 Anti-Collision solution is that it both detects hard and soft obstacles. Whether your desk drives into a coffee cup below your desk or encounters a padded office chair, the desk will instantly detect this and react by stopping the desk and reversing the direction.
Plug & Play - just plug the DS1 unit into your desk
Including the DS1 Anti-Collision unit in your LINAK office desk system is easy. For standard systems with a LINAK CBD6S control box, you just plug the unit into the control box, and instantly your desk has Anti-Collision installed. For systems using DL IC (integrated controller) lifting columns, the DS1 can be integrated using a T-Splitter and a serial cable. Both options make it easy to add to desk systems either already with your customers or new products heading out the door.
Get maximum protection
Optionally, DS1 can be combined with the well-known PIEZO™ Anti-Collision™ technology, ensuring an even higher level of Anti-Collision.
“One of the most important areas to focus on with anti-collision technology is reaction time,” says Louis Samuels, application engineer for LINAK U.S. “When the desk collides with an object, you want it to react as fast as possible. DS1 is great on its own, but with the combination of PIEZO you get the fastest reaction time on the market.”