HONEYWELL SAFETY WATCH REAL-TIME LOCATION SOLUTION

Honeywell introduced the Honeywell Safety Watch, its real-time location solution (RTLS), to help drive safety and security and boost workforce efficiency. Supporting continuous operational improvement, the Safety Watch gives organizations actionable information on their workers and assets to help meet the demands of modern industrial operations.

Leveraging Honeywell OneWireless™ infrastructure, the only solution of its kind to work with all major industrial wireless standards, Honeywell’s Safety Watch uses active wireless tags integrated into employee badges and Honeywell’s OneWireless™ multi-protocol infrastructure. The infrastructure also supports other applications such as instrumentation, control, and mobile devices.

Honeywell Safety Watch provides real-time information previously difficult to access due to disparate systems and manual processes. This can be vital in helping reduce serious incidents, as well as responding to incidents that do occur more effectively. It can be employed for a wide range of uses, including mustering, search and rescue, automatic sign/out, access control, fatigue monitoring, and calculating time on-site. 

Unlike the commercial-grade RTLS currently on the market, Honeywell’s Safety Watch is specifically designed for industrial operations, with enhanced features: 

·       Area classified equipment ready

·       A longer tag battery life

·       Extended transmission range

·       Higher location accuracy

·       An intuitive user interface that offers more than real-time location

·       A business rule engine, enabling the creation of rules for safety and security.

“Our new Safety Watch RTLS helps organizations improve compliance, productivity, security, and safety, reducing the risk of incidents, and if one should occur, enabling a quick and effective response,” said Nisha Lathif, safety solutions business director, Honeywell Process Solutions. “Providing relevant information and real-time data processing, Safety Watch is purpose-built for industrial settings.” 

Real-time location data is an integral part of the Industry 4.0 ecosystem, which combines the latest technologies and digital capabilities to tap into data anywhere and everywhere. RTLS meets this need to help organizations achieve digital transformation through the Industrial Internet of things.

Honeywell Process Solutions (www.process.honeywell.com) is a pioneer in automation control, instrumentation, and services for the oil and gas; refining; energy; pulp and paper; industrial power generation; chemicals and petrochemicals; biofuels; life sciences; and metals, minerals, and mining industries. It is also a leader in providing software solutions and instrumentation that help manufacturers find value and competitive advantage through Honeywell Connected Plant, Honeywell’s Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution. Process Solutions is part of Honeywell’s Performance Materials and Technologies strategic business group, which also includes Honeywell UOP (www.uop.com), a leading international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment, and consulting services to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries.

Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry-specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable.