INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
Industrialmonitoring: sensing the future of safety
GraemeRobertson, Sales and Business Development Director atCBTechnology explores how sensors help remove personnel from hazardous working environments and dangerous tasks - a trend which will only increase as the technology becomes more widely adopted by industry
not all - restrictions beginning to lift across the UK, businesses are evaluating the lessons of the past 16 months to better inform how and where they will work moving forwards. During this period, technology has been critical in supporting workers across a multitude of industries and sectors to benefit from remote or distributed work patterns. Digital infrastructure, for instance, has been key to help people stay aligned and connected with one another, even when miles apart. However, the pandemic has spurred a raft
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of technological developments related to remote working that stretch far beyond helping workers transition to operating out of spare bedrooms or from kitchen tables.
28 SEPTEMBER 2021 | ELECTRONICS TODAY
he Covid-19 pandemic has permanently changed the world of work. With most - if
Critical sectors where IoT growth is prominent, such as heavy industry, power system management, transportation, telecommunications and health care, have seen a boom in the fields of remote monitoring that support offsite working and offer safer environments for employees - and not just from Covid-19.
Industrial monitoring and control Traditionally, sensing technologies monitor the performance of infrastructure and systems that are often difficult to observe as a result of harsh operating conditions, difficulty of access or hazardous working environments. Allmanner of infrastructure and equipment
benefits fromthis type ofmonitoring - from wind turbines, electricity substations and
offshore platforms to rolling stock in railways, aircraft and cargo ships. Simply put, the role of sensing andmonitoring systems is tomake sure that an asset and its inbuilt technology is performing to optimumcapability. The remote monitoring of these systems, whereby the need for physical onsite inspection of assets is negated, gives businesses and operators a variety of benefits. These include the identification and forewarning of potential failure, the reduction of expenditure based on the interrogation of operating data and, most importantly, the avoidance of unnecessary risk to an employee's safety. For example, wind turbines, by their nature,
are hard to access and therefore rely on technology, which includes vibration and temperature sensing. If, say, a bearing wears
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