A UWB Based Tracking and Management System for Streamlining Steel Ladle Operations

Ladle monitoring systems are crucial for optimizing steel melting operations, enhancing material and equipment flow, reducing wait times, boosting production, facilitating rapid problem-solving, and ensuring steel quality. While GPS and RFID are common tracking methods, GPS's accuracy is indoor limited, and RFID's precision is constrained by range and proximity. However, a proposed Ultra-Wideband (UWB) system, offering precise tracking by utilizing radio waves. UWB translates pulses into data, operating at a high frequency. UWB anchors transmit signals to UWB tags, calculating roundtrip time for location determination (Time of Flight). These values are converted into location coordinates using a plane position algorithm and stored in a database. A web app in the centralized control system retrieves and displays tracked data, including the ladle's current position, ensuring efficient material flow and real-time monitoring of steel quality.