Dive summary:
- Technology such as Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags have been used for large equipment for some time, and now tracking technology is coming down to the level of individual tools through embedded tracking devices.
- SK Solutions, whose equipment has been used for collision avoidance of cranes and other gear on European job sites, says it has the technology available to create a three-dimensional picture of what is going on at a job in real time, and Stanley Black & Decker's Cribmaster unit says it has tools with built-in trackers.
- Put it all together, advocates say, and equipment could be set up to work only for people who carry RFID tags saying they have the needed skills to use it.
From the article:
"... you take the data into software and have full asset management, safety and project management. We have to consider job sites like manufacturing." ...
