✓ Real-time inventory of nearly 300 rental crane components
✓ Facilitate management of the equipment maintenance process
✓ Know the flow in and out of the stockyard
From a technical point of view, the automatic inventory IoT solution relies on a set of Bluetooth beacons attached to each of the 300 low crane equipment to be tracked. Each piece of equipment is then assigned a unique identification number.
To track the equipment in the storage area, 10 gateways have been installed, and when the elements are deployed at customer sites, the operators’ smartphones act as trackers, ensuring their location.
Equipment detection is automatic, thanks to the “Charlie Gestion” monitoring application, so no human action is required. The manager can simply control his fleet via the IoT platform (PC), creating dashboards and alerts when a device needs to be checked. In this way, he can find out in real time on which worksite a given piece of equipment is located, as well as its utilization rate and compliance.
Eventually, Potain intends to share this inventory data with carriers, technicians and operators to streamline logistics operations.
✓ Reduced response time when maintenance is required
✓ Increased machine reliability
✓ Global and detailed view of the position of rental equipment
✓ Saves time in the maintenance process
✓ Simplified inventory management
