Safety Risk Control System based on UWB and 3D Visualization in Metallurgical Operation

Accidents caused by the workers who entering the hazardous areas are still occurring frequently because of complex metallurgical operation environment. This paper proposed a safety risk control system based on UWB and 3D visualization in metallurgical operation. The real-time indoor positioning in 3D digital scene and alerting the dangerous states for the workers play a significant role in achieving digital personnel management in the metallurgical plant. This paper studied the application of Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) in personnel positioning and the combinational utilization with three-dimensional visualization technology used to display three-dimensional scenes of the operation area. This system can achieve the metallurgical safety risk identification and grade assessment, precise positioning and dynamic control of field workers and 3D dynamic monitoring of converter operating area. Meanwhile, these functions can be targeted to update by security information statistical feedback after a period. It can be highly adaptable to complex environments and would be of practical values to improve the safety of metallurgical personnel, reliability of security check and man-machine orderly cooperation in working area of metallurgical plant if it would be built and put into application.