19-Mar-2025

Crane Lifting Hook Visual Tracking and Hanging Position Confirmation System

Crane Lifting Hook Visual Tracking and Hanging Position Confirmation System: A Revolutionary Solution for Intelligent Cranes and Unmanned Handling

Keywords: Automation, Intelligent Crane, Unmanned Crane, Intelligent Handling Solution

In modern industrial environments, cranes are the core equipment for material handling and are widely used in the fields of steel, metallurgy, chemical industry, ports, ships and manufacturing. However, there are many pain points in the operation of traditional cranes, especially in the observation of hook position and confirmation of hanging stability, which often rely on manual judgment, which is not only inefficient but also has high safety risks. With the rapid development of industrial automation and intelligent technology, the crane lifting hook visual tracking and hanging position confirmation system came into being and became a key innovative solution to solve these problems.

Existing Pain Points and Value Points

Existing Pain Points:

  1. Difficulty in Observing from the Cab: In traditional crane operations, it is challenging for operators to clearly observe the real-time position of the hook and trunnion from the cab, especially when handling large ladles. Limited visibility often leads to operational errors. For example, at a smelting plant in Sichuan, the crane height reaches 30 meters, making it difficult for operators to clearly see the hook position below, resulting in low efficiency and safety risks.
  2. Safety Risks for Ground Assistants: Ground assistants need to direct lifting operations at close range, exposing them to the risk of collisions with ladles or hooks, jeopardizing their safety. In high-risk environments like steel plants, close-range operations increase the likelihood of accidents.

Value Points:

  • Assisted Operation: Through high-definition video and low-latency transmission, the system helps operators grasp the real-time position of the hook and trunnion, reducing operational errors. For example, the system can automatically adjust focus and track the hook position as it approaches the trunnion, ensuring the operator always has the best view.
  • Reduction of High-Risk Jobs: By minimizing the involvement of ground assistants, the system reduces the need for high-risk positions, significantly lowering safety risks.
  • Ensuring Operational Safety: Using AI algorithms and high-precision sensors, the system ensures the hook is securely fastened, preventing accidents such as ladle drops. The system can analyze the positional relationship between the hook and trunnion in real time, providing securing confirmation results to assist operators in decision-making.
  • Improved Operational Efficiency: The automated system reduces manual operation time, enhancing lifting efficiency. For instance, a steel plant using this system saw a 30% improvement in bulk material handling efficiency.
  • Independent R&D and Patent Certification: The system boasts independent intellectual property rights, leading the market with advanced technology. With self-developed AI algorithms and high-precision sensors, the system achieves a hook detection and judgment accuracy of 99.47%.

Advantages:

  • High-Definition Video: A 4-megapixel camera with 25x zoom ensures operators can clearly see the hook and trunnion, even in complex environments.
  • Low Latency: Video transmission and decoding take less than 170 milliseconds, ensuring real-time and safe operations.
  • Data Enhancement: Sensors and AI algorithms enhance data accuracy, improving operational precision. The system extracts rich semantic information from images at different scales, ensuring accurate positioning of trunnions at various heights and angles.
  • High Precision: The system precisely identifies the position of the hook and trunnion, ensuring secure fastening. For example, it dynamically adjusts for hooks of different sizes, colors, and shapes to ensure detection accuracy.
  • AI Algorithm Support: AI algorithms automatically identify the state of the hook and trunnion, reducing human intervention. For instance, the system can detect special phenomena like flames and smoke, ensuring production safety.

Target Customer Positioning Overview

The Crane Lifting Hook Visual Tracking and Hanging Position Confirmation System is an intelligent solution designed to enhance the safety and efficiency of crane operations. Its target customers primarily include industries with high demands for operational precision, safety, and efficiency. Below is an overview of the system’s core target customer groups and their application scenarios:

1. Steel Industry

The steel industry is one of the core application areas of the Crane Lifting Hook Visual Tracking and Hanging Position Confirmation System. In steel production, ladle hoisting is a high-risk, high-frequency operation. Traditional operations rely on manual observation and ground command, which have problems such as limited viewing angles and high safety hazards. The system uses high-definition cameras and AI algorithms to track the position of the hook and the trunnion in real time, ensuring the safety and efficiency of ladle hoisting and significantly reducing the accident rate.

2. Metallurgical Industry

The high-temperature, high-dust environments in the metallurgical industry impose higher requirements on crane operations. The system can operate stably in complex conditions, automatically adjusting focus and using AI analysis to accurately determine hook status, reducing manual intervention and improving operational safety. It is particularly suitable for handling high-risk materials such as ladles and molten metals.

3. Chemical Industry

The chemical industry involves the handling of heavy equipment and hazardous materials, requiring extremely high precision and safety. The system ensures secure hook fastening through high-precision detection and real-time data analysis, preventing accidents such as material drops. It also reduces the need for ground assistants, lowering operational risks.

4. Port Industry

Port crane operations face complex environments and heavy lifting tasks, often under challenging weather and working conditions. The system provides low-latency transmission and stable image adjustment, helping operators maintain precise control during high-intensity operations, improving port logistics efficiency, and ensuring operational safety.

5. Shipbuilding Industry

Heavy component handling in shipbuilding demands exceptional precision and stability from cranes. The system uses AI algorithms and high-definition video to track hook positions in real time, ensuring the safe lifting of heavy components, reducing human errors, and enhancing production efficiency.

6. Manufacturing Industry

The manufacturing industry requires high efficiency and safety for heavy equipment handling and production line material transfer. The system reduces manual operation time and improves handling efficiency through automation and intelligent analysis, while minimizing operational risks, supporting the industry’s transition to intelligent manufacturing.

Core Needs of Target Customers

  • Safety: Reducing manual intervention, minimizing high-risk positions, and preventing accidents during handling operations.
  • Efficiency Improvement: Shortening operation time and improving handling efficiency through automation and intelligent technology.
  • Precision Operations: Real-time tracking of hook positions to ensure secure fastening and reduce operational errors.
  • Adaptability to Complex Environments: Stable operation in harsh conditions such as high temperatures, dust, and humidity, ensuring continuous production.

Overview of Core Product Features

The Crane Lifting Hook Visual Tracking and Hanging Position Confirmation System is an intelligent solution that integrates advanced visual technology, AI algorithms, and automated control functions. It aims to address pain points in traditional crane operations, enhancing both safety and efficiency. Below is an overview of the system’s core features and their technical advantages:

1. Active Focus Adjustment for Clear Details

  • Feature Description: The system is equipped with a 4-megapixel high-definition camera supporting 25x optical zoom. It automatically adjusts focus based on the real-time position of the hook and trunnion, ensuring that the hook and trunnion remain centered in the frame, with clear details regardless of distance.
  • Technical Advantages:
  • Intelligent Tracking: AI algorithms capture real-time changes in the positions of the hook and trunnion, ensuring operators always have the best view.
  • Wide-Angle Coverage: The camera supports 360° horizontal rotation and -20° to 90° vertical adjustment, providing a broad viewing range suitable for complex working environments.
  • Application Value: In high-altitude or complex environments, the system provides operators with clear visuals of the hook, reducing operational errors caused by limited visibility.

2. Hook Securing Algorithm for Decision Support

  • Feature Description: The system features a self-developed AI algorithm that analyzes the positional relationship between the hook and trunnion in real time, determining whether the hook is securely fastened. The results are displayed on the operator interface for decision-making.
  • Technical Advantages:
  • High-Precision Judgment: The system achieves a hook detection and judgment accuracy of 99.47%, ensuring reliable securing confirmation.
  • Dynamic Adaptation: The system dynamically adjusts detection parameters for hooks of different sizes, colors, and shapes, ensuring accurate identification under various conditions.
  • Application Value: By providing real-time securing confirmation, the system significantly reduces safety incidents caused by human judgment errors, improving the reliability of lifting operations.

3. Stable Image Adjustment for Optimal Viewing

  • Feature Description: The system intelligently adjusts the image based on the hook’s movement, ensuring operators always have a clear and stable view. The focus adjustment frequency is rigorously calibrated to prevent blurring caused by frequent adjustments.
  • Technical Advantages:
  • Image Stability: Optimized algorithms ensure stable images even in complex environments, allowing operators to clearly observe the hook’s status.
  • Environmental Adaptability: The system can identify special phenomena such as flames, smoke, and high brightness, automatically adjusting image brightness and contrast to provide the best view in any environment.
  • Application Value: In high-temperature, high-dust, or complex lighting environments, the system provides stable visual support, enhancing operational safety.

4. Low-Latency Transmission for Real-Time Operation Support

  • Feature Description: The system uses low-latency transmission technology, with video transmission and decoding taking less than 170 milliseconds, ensuring operators can track the hook and trunnion positions in real time.
  • Technical Advantages:
  • Real-Time Performance: Low-latency transmission ensures synchronization between operational commands and visual feedback, improving precision and safety.
  • Efficiency: Optimized data transmission processes enable the system to maintain high performance even during intensive operations.
  • Application Value: In scenarios requiring quick responses, the system provides real-time support to operators, reducing delays and improving operational efficiency.

5. Multi-Scale Semantic Information Extraction for Precise Trunnion Positioning

  • Feature Description: The system extracts rich semantic information from images at different scales, ensuring accurate positioning of the trunnion at various heights and angles.
  • Technical Advantages:
  • Multi-Dimensional Analysis: AI algorithms comprehensively analyze the spatial relationship between the hook and trunnion, providing precise positioning information.
  • Wide Adaptability: Whether for high-altitude or close-range operations, the system delivers consistent detection accuracy.
  • Application Value: In complex lifting tasks, the system provides operators with precise lug positioning information, reducing operational errors.

6. Scalable Solutions to Meet Diverse Needs

  • Feature Description: The system supports the addition of ground-installed cameras to further enhance securing confirmation safety. It can also be flexibly configured to meet the needs of different operational scenarios.
  • Technical Advantages:
  • Modular Design: The system supports multiple configurations, such as integrated ground-and-crane solutions, pure crane solutions, and pure ground solutions, adapting to various working environments.
  • Scalability: By adding ground cameras or other sensors, the system can further improve detection accuracy and coverage.
  • Application Value: In complex industrial scenarios, the system can be customized to ensure optimal performance.

7. Self-Developed AI Algorithms for Intelligent Operations

  • Feature Description: The system uses self-developed AI algorithms to analyze images in real time, providing operational guidance. The algorithms are trained on extensive data, offering strong environmental adaptability and high-precision judgment capabilities.
  • Technical Advantages:
  • Independent Intellectual Property: The algorithms are independently developed, with leading technology and market competitiveness.
  • Continuous Optimization: The system supports online upgrades, allowing algorithm performance to be continuously improved based on real-world applications.
  • Application Value: With AI algorithm support, the system enables intelligent operations, reducing manual intervention and improving efficiency and safety.

Overview of Solutions and Application Cases

The Crane Lifting Hook Visual Tracking and Hanging Position Confirmation System offers customized solutions for multiple industries through its intelligent, high-precision, and high-efficiency features. It helps customers address pain points in crane operations, enhancing both safety and productivity. Below is an overview of the system’s main solutions and their successful application cases:

1. Factory-Level Solution: Unmanned Grab Bucket Crane Solution

  • Keywords: Automation, Unmanned Crane
  • Application Scenarios: Bulk material handling in steel plants, ports, and chemical plants.
  • Solution: The system enables automated grab bucket operations by automatically identifying grab positions, ensuring precise handling and reducing manual intervention.
  • Case Studies:
  • A Large Steel Plant: After implementing the system, the plant achieved a 30% improvement in bulk material handling efficiency while reducing the number of ground assistants, significantly lowering accident rates. The system uses high-definition cameras and AI algorithms to track grab positions in real time, ensuring accurate operations.
  • A Bulk Cargo Port: At the port, the system enabled 24/7 automated operations, reducing manual handling time and improving logistics efficiency.

2. Equipment-Level Solution: Digital Crane Solution (Including Electrical System Upgrades)

  • Keywords: Intelligent Crane, Intelligent Handling Solution
  • Application Scenarios: Heavy crane operations in metallurgical, steel, and chemical industries.
  • Solution: By upgrading existing cranes’ electrical systems and integrating the Hook Tracking and Securing Confirmation System, cranes are digitized and intelligentized, enabling real-time hook monitoring and safe operations.
  • Case Studies:
  • A Metallurgical Enterprise: The enterprise reduced crane operation errors to 0.1%, significantly improving safety and efficiency. The system’s high-precision detection and real-time data analysis ensured accurate and safe ladle handling.
  • A Chemical Plant: During heavy equipment handling, the system used AI algorithms and high-definition video to track hook positions in real time, ensuring safe lifting and reducing manual intervention and operational risks.

3. Driver Assistance Solution

  • Keywords: Intelligent Crane, Assisted Operation
  • Application Scenarios: Crane operations in steel plants, ports, and shipyards.
  • Solution: High-definition cameras and low-latency transmission provide real-time hook and lifting lug position information, assisting operators in precise operations. The AI algorithm automatically identifies hook securing status, reducing human judgment errors.
  • Case Studies:
  • A Port Crane: After using the system, operators achieved a 20% improvement in operational precision and a 15% reduction in handling time, significantly boosting efficiency. The system’s low-latency transmission and stable image adjustment ensured real-time and safe operations.
  • A Shipbuilding Factory: During heavy component handling, the system used AI algorithms and high-definition video to track hook positions in real time, ensuring safe lifting and reducing human errors and operational risks.

4. Customized Solutions: Adapting to Diverse Needs

  • Keywords: Flexible Configuration, On-Demand Expansion
  • Application Scenarios: Suitable for complex working conditions such as high temperatures, high dust, and high humidity.
  • Solution: The system supports multiple configurations, such as integrated ground-and-crane solutions, pure crane solutions, and pure ground solutions, adapting to various working environments. Additionally, the system can be flexibly expanded based on customer needs, such as adding ground cameras or other sensors, further improving detection accuracy and coverage.
  • Case Studies:
  • A High-Temperature Smelting Plant: In high-temperature environments, the system ensured stable operation through special coatings and high-temperature-resistant components. Its automatic focus adjustment function helped operators clearly observe hook positions in extreme heat.
  • A Chemical Park: In corrosive gas environments, the system ensured long-term stable operation through explosion-proof design and special materials, significantly improving operational safety.

5. Industry-Level Solution: Driving Intelligent Upgrades

  • Keywords: Intelligence, Digital Transformation
  • Application Scenarios: Applicable to multiple industries, including steel, metallurgy, chemicals, ports, shipbuilding, and manufacturing.
  • Solution: The Crane Lifting Hook Visual Tracking and Hanging Position Confirmation System drives the crane industry toward intelligent and automated operations. It not only improves operational safety and efficiency but also reduces operational costs for enterprises, supporting the digital transformation of industrial production.
  • Case Studies:
  • A Steel Group: By fully deploying the system, the group achieved intelligent and unmanned crane operations, significantly improving production efficiency and safety while reducing labor costs.
  • A Port Logistics Center: The system helped the port achieve automated and precise crane operations, improving logistics efficiency and reducing operational risks.

Industry Applications

  1. Metallurgical Industry: Ladle handling is a critical process in metallurgical production, and the system significantly improves safety and efficiency.
  2. Steel Industry: Frequent crane operations in steel plants benefit from reduced manual intervention and lower accident rates.
  3. Chemical Industry: Heavy material handling in the chemical industry requires safe and precise operations, which the system ensures.
  4. Port Industry: Complex port crane operations are made more efficient with precise operator assistance.
  5. Shipbuilding Industry: Heavy component handling in shipbuilding is made safer and more efficient with the system.
  6. Manufacturing Industry: Heavy equipment handling in manufacturing benefits from improved efficiency and reduced manual intervention.

Conclusion: Dongqi Crane—Your Partner in Intelligent Crane Solutions

As a leading enterprise in the crane industry, Dongqi Crane is committed to providing customers with innovative, efficient, and safe intelligent solutions. The Crane Lifting Hook Visual Tracking and Hanging Position Confirmation System is the culmination of our years of technical expertise and industry experience, designed to help customers address pain points in crane operations and enhance both safety and efficiency.

We understand that the needs of every industry and every customer are unique. Therefore, Dongqi Crane not only offers standardized products but also focuses on delivering tailored solutions for our clients. Whether in the steel, metallurgy, chemical, port, shipbuilding, or manufacturing industries, our system can meet diverse operational needs, supporting customers in achieving intelligent upgrades.

Moving forward, Dongqi Crane will continue to uphold the philosophy of “innovation-driven, customer-first,” constantly advancing crane technology to provide global customers with smarter, safer, and more efficient crane solutions. Choosing Dongqi Crane means choosing to partner with an industry leader, together ushering in a new era of intelligent handling!

Contact us to learn more about the Crane Lifting Hook Visual Tracking and Hanging Position Confirmation System or to obtain a customized solution. Dongqi Crane looks forward to working with you to create a brighter future!

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