Safety monitoring and management system for tower crane based on GSM

CHEN Shuai, ZHOU Jianxing, JIANG Wei
(E&M Key Lab, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China)

Abstract: Aiming at traditional method can realize safety alarm on a single tower crane only. It was difficult to achieve unified management and safety alarm on many tower cranes. In order to solve the problems, a design was presented. Firstly, according to the needs of tower crane safely monitoring, the wireless communication technology of global system for mobile communications(GSM) network was used, the pack and unpack of short message was analyzed, and the content of the communication protocol was customized. Then according to the safety alarm indicator, the safety alarm was realized. Finally a software process of the monitoring and management system was designed. The result shows that the system may be valuable for engineering application. The analysis lays the foundation for the further more perfection of software functions.
Key words: tower crane; global system for mobile communications(GSM) network; monitoring system