IOT Enabled Smart Crane Operations and Short

Range Communication
“A Project By”

TATA STEEL
Pranav Cherkar JayeshNandgavkar Manasi Kalamdane
pranavcherkar.2002@gmail.com Jayeshnandgavkar9@gmail.com Manasikalamdane1242@gmail.com

Ritu Jagtap Anniruddha Bhosale Prof. Sunita Jadhav

rituj8645@gmail.com aniruddhabhosale38352@gmail.com smjadhav@vishwaniketan.edu.

Mr. Ajendra Chauhan

ajendra.chauhan@tatasteel.com

Abstract— Previous research in the last years estimates that
cranes cause over 30% of fatal accidents out of the total
number of accidents in the industry. However, it still ignores
biomechanical and visual problems during everyday crane
operators' work. Industry 4.0 solutions, such as one proposed
in project by TATA steel, have the potential to lower the rates
of accidents caused by impacts between the crane or its load
and objects or other equipment, which as primary cause have
operator's limited or poor visibility of the surrounding
workspace. This project analyses human and organizational
factors and gives an economic appraisal on the visual guidance
system. The smart crane solution is a combination of
automation hardware, specialty crane algorithms, integration
with wireless positioning technologies, high-definition multiple
cameras. This solution delivers complete material traceability
and inventory visibility, precise and faster crane operation
without injuries, fatal conditions and better work conditions.
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I. INTRODUCTION
This project is a solution to real time TATA STEEL
industrial problem which can reduce major accidents and
fatal situation
1) With the increasing complexity of modern
construction projects, maintaining operational safety while
increasing the erection speeds of cranes has become an
important issue. There are four major problems in current
crane operations: (1) dynamically changing working
environments, (2) limited views for operators, (3) unclear
communication between operators and other crew, and (4)
oversimplified control interfaces impeding efficient and safe
erections. This research proposes an integrated
environment to provide a rich information environment to
operators during the erection processes. To achieve the
goal, we designed an augmented reality (AR) system with
four modules: field information collector, virtual
information collector, construction planner, and integrated
AR display. Field information is collected by four video
cameras and virtual information is collected from the
building information model (BIM). Then, the construction
planner module processes the information, calculates
efficient erection paths and analyzes the possible risks in the
erection environment. The results that can be delivered to
operators are categorized into two groups: erection
progress information and limitation information . To verify
the feasibility of the system, we implemented a control
system which simulates a construction crane. Future work
will include the conduct of a user test to verify the usability
of the proposed system.
B. Review Of Research Paper
Review paper on real time image processing methods ,
techniques , applications
Ibrahim Masri
Erdal Erdal
In their paper , we get to know that Images are
everywhere in our life. We have many goals from image
processing, but the important goal is recognition. Where
some images have information are inaccurate these need
to improve image data so that human can understand it
better, e.g., in medical images, we need to adjust and

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 improve the images so the doctor can take the optimal C. Implementation Plan
treatment decision. Others need some pre-processing so
that the machine can understand the image and make an
appropriate decision without the intervention of the
human element, e.g., treatment of medical images to
detect diseases. We can see from these examples that
real-time image processing has an important role in our
lives that are constantly evolving.

An efficient short range wireless communication

technology for wireless sensor network

Rachid Saadane The whole project is based on this implementation plan

Anouar Darif
Driss Aboutajdine
In their paper , a WSN is a network consisting of
numerous sensor nodes with sensing, wireless
communications and computing capabilities. These
sensor nodes are scattered in an unattended
environment to sense the physical world. The sensed
data can be collected by a few sink nodes which have
accesses to infrastructured networks like the Internet.
Finally, an end user can remotely fetch the sensed data
by accessing infrastructured networks. WSN consists of
spatially distributed sensor nodes, each sensor node is
able to independently perform some processing and
sensing tasks. Furthermore, sensor nodes communicate
with each other in order to forward their sensed
information to a central processing unit or conduct some
local coordination such as data fusion.
1) In traditional networks destinations are random
hence avoiding congestion is easy but WSN deliver myriad
types of traffic its density increases when sudden event
occurs and some nodes may worn out their battery power
removal of such nodes in the network make uncongested
part of the network become easily congested. This will
degrade the network quality, increase the loss rate and
unfairness toward nodes whose data has to traverse a large
number of hops.
D. Objectives
• To assist crane operators
• To monitor maintenance intervals
• To analyse work / error service
• To improve productivity
• To improve 3D visualization of crane operator
• To avoid fatal or injury leading activities
which consists of four phases as shown in above fig.
Phase 1. Consists of problem identification and problem
understanding.
Phase 2. Consists of research and data collection (research
papers, review papers)
Phase 3. has hardware selection, software selection,
programming, testing the algorithm on simple images,
testing on videos followed by testing it on live videos.
Phase 4. has implementation and setup.
REFERENCES
• Ren, Weijun, Zifeng Wu, and Lei Zhang. "Real-
time planning of a lifting scheme in mobile crane
mounted controllers." Canadian Journal of Civil
Engineering 43, no. 6 (June 2016)
• Kalwasiński, Dariusz. "Mobile simulator of the
crane to support trainings of crane operators – a
concept." Mechanik 91, no. 7 (July 9, 2018
• He, F., S. K. Ong, and A. Y. C. Nee. "An
Integrated Mobile Augmented Reality Digital Twin
Monitoring System." Computers 10, no. 8
(August 12, 2021)
• Structural Health Monitoring of Gantry Crane
Based on EDGE Technology." Applied Mechanics
and Materials 333-335 (July 2013)
E. Block Diagram

F. Block Diagram Explanation

As we studied in the industrial area the crane moves from point A to point B which is about 50-60m above the ground. This
creates many blind spots and many times the dust particles can also create visual problems. To deal with this we will set the
camera at the best vision possible so there will be fewer blind spots and better vision. The camera will capture the footage and
stream it on the display which is in the cabin of the crane. We will use a Deep learning algorithm which has a custom data set
with labeled data of
1)Crane
2)Human
3)Area where the load must be placed
This footage with image classification will be transmitted to the crane operator on a display which is present in the cabin.
The deep algorithm have detecto package which can be used for faster image processing and it include three main
components 1) R-CNN and 2) ResNet 3)FPN .

G. Results
These are the result of the prediction done by the algorithm. In this we can see that the more the score is near too 1 the more
accurate the result.

This is the visual detection of the object

H. Conclusion
Thus, we have proposed a system capable of recording/capturing video/image and transmitting to a
smart display at the crane operator. It is advantageous as it offers reliability and ease the crane
operation. It will help to reduce accidents which could happen due to human error.