The Smart Impact Pole is Convoy Guardian's contact detection method. It is a high-precision electronic pole mounted on top of the load, with multi-axis accelerometers embedded along its shaft. The instant it touches a structure, a 360° red beacon strobes at the pole tip and every Convoy Guardian device in the mesh receives the strike alert — in under 100 milliseconds, with no cell connection involved. It is part of Convoy Guardian, made by SolTec Innovation.
A multi-axis accelerometer array along the shaft is sensitive enough to register contact long before anything is bent. That distinction is the whole design: the pole is meant to be the thing that touches the bridge, so the load never does. A brush against a beam is a signal, not an incident — and it is one you want the whole convoy to hear immediately.
It does not predict. The pole cannot buy you stopping distance the way LiDAR lead-vehicle sensing can, because it only knows something when contact occurs. What it guarantees is that contact is never silent, never delayed by a radio call, and never missing from the record. For the strongest configuration, run both methods in parallel.
The pole mounts load-topside and is fitted during installation as part of the complete field kit. Every strike event it registers goes into the same audit-grade blackbox as the LiDAR readings, so an incident review reads one timeline regardless of which method fired.
At a live demo — or at Booth M01 at Breakbulk Americas 2026 — you hit the pole with your hand and hear every device on the table alert.
Tell us about your convoy. We'll set up a live demo on a real route — or meet you at Booth M01 at Breakbulk Americas.
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