Development of crane utilization system based on IoT

Ng, Wen Jun (2021) Development of crane utilization system based on IoT. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Crane utilization rate and health is an important thing for a company to keep tracking. The condition of the crane cannot be decided by just looking at it, because it is always too late when the failure of the internal part of the crane was found. The abrupt accidents will interrupt or delay the work progress and also cause the cost of the work to increase. Due to that, a monitoring system will be needed. But most of the current monitoring systems are using wireless communication technology like BLUETOOTH and WIFI. This communication technique is good but still can be improved because the effective range for both of these communication technologies is limited. Due to that, LoRa is chosen in this project because of long-range of detections from LoRa is suitable for monitoring machines that require large space especially in the heavy engineering industry. For this crane monitoring system, some data will be transferred and the size for this data is not big. So that, the advantages for Lora to send and receive data through a long-range and the disadvantages of LoRa that only able to send data at a low rate is acceptable. Hence, the LoRa module is used in this project. This project will have a transmitter side that an Arduino UNO place at the crane part using some sensors to track the health of the crane by measuring temperature, power consumption, lifting activity, and working hours. Then the data will be sent to the receiver side which is a NodeMCU ESP8266. The data will be sent to the database if the NodeMCU is connected to the internet. In the end, the user will be able to do the monitoring for the crane by using the mobile application. This project aims to design and develop a crane monitoring system using an android application and it had been successfully done. The result shows that users will be able to monitor the crane utilization by using the Android application. In addition, the user will be able to view the real-time data or past data in graph view. For future works, a controlling system is possible to add and implement in this system so the approved user or admin can use the mobile application to stop the crane when they had found something wrong with the crane’s data.

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