22-10-2026
As operations become more complex and productivity demands rise, businesses need solutions that improve safety without slowing work. Konecranes Work Zone uses geofencing to support both.
How? By creating virtual boundaries.
Imagine creating invisible safety zones around your worksite, where lift trucks behavior adapts to specific safety requirements. This is the power of geofencing.
Businesses can define virtual zones on a map of the worksite. Using GPS technology, Work Zone identifies the position of each lift truck and recognizes when a machine enters or leaves one of these areas. In busy warehouses or ports, lift trucks can slow automatically in high-traffic areas or alert drivers about height-restricted zones, helping prevent collisions, unsafe situations and equipment damage. Virtual boundaries can also keep lift trucks away from sensitive equipment and pedestrian zones, reducing human error and creating a safer workplace.
Real-time alerts reduce driver cognitive fatigue
When a lift truck enters a speed-restricted zone, the speed is automatically limited to the configured level. A change of icon colour on the display lets the driver know that the speed control is active.
When entering a height-restricted zone instead, it triggers an alert on the display. The warning alerts the driver, allowing corrective action to adjust the boom or mast height before entering the restricted area.
Through a combination of automatic control and visual alerts, Konecranes Work Zone reduces cognitive load so drivers can focus on their tasks and operate more confidently and efficiently.
Optimized operations through centralized zone management
Konecranes Work Zone enables businesses to remotely create, edit and apply geofencing parameters across the fleet, simplifying control in operations with multiple zones and safety requirements.
Maintenance zones can track time spent in service areas, helping optimize fleet deployment and reduce downtime. Parameters can also be adapted as site requirements change.
Beyond safety, Work Zone helps improve operational performance by providing valuable insights into fleet and process efficiency.
Geofence events - notifications triggered every time a lift truck enter or exit a virtual zone - provide visibility into how lift trucks move through the worksite, enabling businesses to track loading and unloading times, as well as time spent in service areas. These insights help identify bottlenecks, optimize workflows, and improve overall material handling effiicency.
Konecranes Portal brings all this data and other fleet-management tools into one single digital environment, where managers can review fleet activity, plan preventive maintenance and order parts.
A safer working environment
By helping businesses define and manage virtual safety zones, Konecranes Work Zone enhances workplace safety, protects valuable equipment and supports more efficient operations. It turns safety from a reactive measure into a proactive operational advantage.
For customers operating busy ports, terminals, warehouses and industrial sites, Work Zone helps standardize safety practices while maintaining productivity.
