Everest advances anti-collision systems for its tower cranes

Everest Engineering Equipment has developed an anti-collision system with built-in SLI and wind velocity control that gives tremendous safety features for any make or model tower cranes.

Today multiple tower cranes are working within one building or one construction site is quiet common. Collision between the tower cranes, nearby structures, trees or other towers are often happen, which in turn damages the crane structure or other associated structures. Such accidents also result in heavy losses, sometime stalls the project and even loss of lives.

It is observed that most of the tower cranes does not have the anti-collision systems, even the Safe Load Indicator (SLI) are not being installed. Some tower cranes have safe load indicators but are unable to link with the anti-collision systems. Multiple monitors or displays in an operator cabin also make the operator confused and lead to accidents. Frequent power failure at construction sites adds another problem like improper shut down, data corruption, non-detection of radio signals, restart etc.

After studying all these problems, Everest Engineering Equipment has developed an anti-collision system with built-in SLI and wind velocity control that gives tremendous safety features for any make or model tower cranes. These anti-collision devices (ACD) are coming with a ground monitoring system through which one can monitor the functions of all tower cranes as well as can upload parameter changes like height increasing, protect some zones etc of all the tower cranes without stopping their operations. A single display shows the anti-collision functions as well as the SLI functions like load, radius, hook height, slewing angle and wind velocity to the operator without any confusion. This system integrates with the tower crane panels and takes care the cut off, alarm and display automatically without changing any OEM set up.

These systems are developed with microprocessor, with battery backup and thus any power failure at site does not affect the functioning. The communications are made through radio controls with non-licensed frequencies specified by Ministry of Telecommunication (Govt. of India). The company also conducts onsite training as a part of its warranty policy. L&T, JMC, Simplex, Billimoria and BG Shirke are some of the Everest’s major customers from the past 4-5 years.

For more details, contact sales@everestengg.in or visit www.everestengg.in

Authored by:

PV Ramdev,
Managing Director,
Everest Engineering Equipment