Feasibility Study on Location Monitoring of Technical Objects During Operational Phase

Remote tracking and monitoring of different objects becomes the everyday life need in various aspects of human life. Nowadays, it concerns not only the strategic areas such as security, defence or life threatening parameters such as human vital signs, but due to the wide availability of technologies and techniques, the remote objects monitoring is applied also to industrial or business applications such as logistics, monitoring of high value objects or others, as well as monitoring of all sorts of general use objects such as vehicles, equipment or others. This paper propose the concept of Smart Tools Monitoring system designed and prototyped to monitor the location and status of hand tools during the operation phase in the factory. As part of the project the analysis and tests of the applicability of available techniques and technologies have been performed in factory settings in order to find out the specifics of such environments in terms of distance, interferences and electromagnetic noise generated by machines. This paper presents the system concept as well as design and operational findings from the feasibility study.