Boosting Construction Safety Through Industrial Cellular Routers

Construction workers need unparallel levels of safety in hazardous locations. Multiple hazards make for a complex and high-risk environment with potentially fatal outcomes. Monitoring, awareness and threat assessment are time and resource intensive. A comprehensive automated monitoring solution was required to provide worker safety in highly dynamic construction environments.

Customer providing safety services in complex construction environments. Preventing accidents and keeping productivity high to achieve tight deadlines. Tracking of company assets to ensure correct location and orientation. A centralized control room solution was required to provide worker safety without intensive use of manpower recourses.

A specialized application software to set and monitor permission and exclusion zones. The Advantech ICR-3231W industrial cellular router was used for the secure and reliable transportation of remote data to the centralized control room at head office and locally on site.

• Local Area Network to Wide Area Network broadband connectivity.
• Local connectivity for Serial RS232/485, Industrial PC and WiFi devices.
• End to End secure transmission by using our WebAccess VPN application for simple deployment of complex virtual networks.
• Zero touch provisioning for easy deployment without requiring technical staff.

• Industrial Cellular Router ICR-3231W for reliable remote connectivity
• WebAccess VPN application providing simple setup of complex Virtual Private Networks
• Centralised monitoring Application

Advantech’s Industrialised Cellular Router was selected by the customer because of the following.

• High resilience industrial platform for tough environments.
• Reliable communications with automated cellular radio connectivity and fail over between 4G LTE, 3G UMTS and 2G GSM. Dual SIM cards providing for multi network operator coverage.
• Easy to use WebAccess VPN application for the simple setup of complex encrypted networks from remote locations to central office.
• Fast broadband communications allowing the customer to provide high levels of safety to the workforce in an efficient and cost saving solution.

Project delivered in partnership with Adey Electronics. Focused Channel Partner, UK (Cellular and Wireless Networking)