Monitoring and remote maintenance of construction machinery with LTE routers
Construction machines are mobile in operation and must be ready for use at all times. Today, for example, there are networked industrial computers on cranes that take over the control and monitoring of the machine (condition monitoring). It is of great importance for the operator to have permanent control over the operating status of the machines, also via remote maintenance, and this also at changing locations. In addition, vandalism at construction sites is a problem. Visual monitoring of the construction site is therefore one of the other requirements of remote monitoring.
Due to the mobility of machines, a wireless solution via the mobile network is ideal for this application, not only because of the high network coverage. With the LTE routers from MC Technologies, a protected and reliable network connection to the machines can be established via the mobile network and the Internet. As if the machines were on the operator’s local network. The LTE routers independently secure the connection through integrated mechanisms.
The use of two SIM cards in the router ensures higher network availability if necessary. In addition, IP cameras can be connected to the router very easily. Thus, visual monitoring of the construction site is possible in parallel to data communication.