“The GPS tells you where you are, no different than the GPS in
your car, and we put computers in the heavy equipment and it tells
the machine or the blade, the cutting edge of the machine that
touches the ground, where to go,” said Mohammed.
The technology has been adapted over the years and can now be
hooked up to the hydraulics on a piece of heavy equipment. A computer
then controls such things as the elevation and tilt of a blade.
Kyle Birch, machine control sales manager for Canada at Leica
Geosystems, which provides guiding, control and positioning solutions
for road construction and other projects, says 3D technology
is also now used in machine-control systems to give operators a
more accurate view of terrain.
Designs can also be loaded directly onto the cloud by an engineer
and sent directly to the heavy equipment.
“With having everything connected, it allows companies to be
more efficient because they don’t have to have somebody running
around on a site with a USB stick to load the designs onto different
machines,” said Birch. “You create a design and it’s sent out to all the
machines simultaneously.”
If an operator encounters a problem, a technician can also log into
the machine remotely and trouble-shoot the problem.
“We can take over the controls on the machine or system with
the exception of putting it into or out of automatics. That’s something
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