Advanced Monitoring Solutions for Excavators

As one of the most widely used equipment in the engineering machinery industry, excavators are extensively employed in various operational environments such as highway construction, open-pit mining, and excavation at construction sites. These versatile machines can perform multiple roles, tackling different construction tasks. However, with greater workload, excavators face increased operational difficulty and risks, often operating in highly adverse and complex conditions with high personnel movement.

Large vehicles like excavators come with several pain points: the complex array of equipment on the excavator body, hydraulic systems requiring timely inspection and maintenance to prevent breakdowns, and the intense workload on excavator operators leading to fatigue-induced accidents. Additionally, managing diverse vehicle types traditionally leads to disorderly practices and inefficient management.

Statistics show that driver error is a leading cause of accidents in the global specialty and engineering vehicle industry. Accidents involving large vehicles result in incalculable economic losses. Reducing driver violations can significantly cut down operational costs for enterprises, improve work efficiency, and enhance fleet management.

However, equipping excavators with safety devices poses significant challenges:

• Mitigating driver fatigue in excavator operators.

• Addressing the variation in excavator designs for installing devices and cameras, necessitating potential customization.

• Designing equipment capable of withstanding the harsh excavator working environments by being waterproof, dustproof, and enduring intense vehicle vibrations during operation.

• Streamlining excavator management through effective scheduling and vehicle dispatch.

Installing industrial-grade monitoring cameras within the vehicle cabins helps prevent safety accidents caused by human factors. The facial recognition feature:

• Authenticates the driver's identity through facial recognition, allowing operation only after authentication, thus preventing unauthorized personnel from driving the excavator.

• Supports remote locking of the vehicle when unauthorized individuals attempt to start the excavator, reducing the risk of theft.

• Uploads facial information to the cloud when switching drivers, ensuring precise accountability.

Driver status recognition:

• Detects signs of driver fatigue like eye closure or yawning.

• Identifies driver violations such as not wearing seatbelts, helmets, smoking, using phones, and promptly warns the driver to prevent accidents.

Hardware Specifications:

• The cameras utilize IP69-rated reinforced housings, designed explicitly for harsh working conditions. They withstand prolonged vibrations and adverse environments even when installed externally on excavators.

• Easy product installation minimizes wire management issues and future maintenance complexities.

• They have a wide application range, catering not only to excavators but also to various engineering vehicles in the market, including forklifts, mining trucks, loaders, bulldozers, container front lifting cranes, among others. This aids enterprises in aligning their vehicle fleet with safety technology requirements.

The monitoring solutions have proven success across multiple industries, such as port logistics, heavy manufacturing, dairy, construction, and more. Customers find that these solutions help in cost reduction, efficiency enhancement, and significant improvement in safety protection and fleet management for medium to heavy-duty large vehicles.