Reduce accidents using analytics

EveryWare identifies the inefficiencies that are costing businesses money through the use of retrofit sensors and Internet of Things technology, allowing them to resolve issues instantly and remotely, before they escalate. It is born from the desire to provide a responsive, interoperable, easily integrated, tailored analytics solution to enterprises that cannot or do not wish to use one of the giant enterprise software systems.

Even today, there are a significant number of accidents on worksites involving heavy machinery. EveryWare says that it can help avoid this and also improve vehicle efficiency and best practice by retrofitting sensors to site vehicles. These can monitor the weight of a load, proximity to other vehicles, collision data, tilt angle, driver ID, and battery status amongst others. 

By monitoring individual drivers, EveryWare is able to feedback to supervisors which drivers are the most reliable or which drivers need more training, saving supervisors time and companies money as they no longer have to spend as much resource on manual assessment.

“What differentiates us is that we are entirely vertically integrated. We manufacture the sensors, the software and the interface in house. No outsourcing, no middle man. You can find us all in one place,” said Nigel Maris, MD of EveryWare. “This makes us cost effective, scalable, nimble and responsive – something that the larger enterprise software providers struggle to be.”

The technology is tailored specifically to problems encountered in each individual business across a wide range of sectors, of which heavy industry is just one. The main focus is to simplify the process of obtaining appropriate data in the areas that are costing businesses money or potentially need to be controlled to avoid a crisis situation. This in turn gives companies the chance to react effectively on receiving real-time data.

"The process breaks down into three main stages: local sensing though sensors that can be fitted retrospectively, local control via a Smarthub and remote monitoring from anywhere in the world via any handheld device,” said Tom Screen, technical director of EveryWare. “The back-office Smarthub tracks data gathered by sensors in the workspace, which is then synced in real time to a cloud platform for storage. Management can connect directly to the Smarthub from a remote device by using a secure access code to receive a real-time overview of the workspace, broken down by function."