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August 30, 2007

A high-tech solution for crane safety?

  • Experts are testing an inspection system that uses handheld devices and radio frequency identification tags.
    • By TERRY STEPHENS
    Special to the Journal

    Photo courtesy of Kimaco Crane Personnel Services [enlarge]
    A worker checks and logs safety information by aiming a handheld device at an RFID tag on a tower crane.

    BETTER TOWER CRANE safety can't happen with the wave of a magic wand but it can happen with a wave of a new handheld device that uses RFID tags to insure crane inspections are conducted properly.


     
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