Challenge: Ensuring Safety in Collaborative Robotics
As industries adopt robots in human-centric environments, ensuring safe human-robot interaction becomes critical. Traditional safety measures, such as vision, proximity, and force/torque sensors, are often limited by false positives, environmental interference, and slow reaction times. These issues disrupt workflows and reduce productivity in high-stakes industrial operations.
Solution: Ontech CEMF® for Safety-Driven Smart Sensing
Ontech Group’s Controlled Electromagnetic Field (CEMF) technology offers unmatched precision and reliability in detecting human presence. It operates effectively in poor lighting, around physical barriers, and at varying depths, filtering out static objects and irrelevant movement to minimise false alarms.
What We Did: Implementing Wardiam Safety and Wardiam Robot
Wardiam Safety – Human-Centric Detection
Creates dynamic safety zones around machinery that adjust in real time to human proximity. Its sensors detect people with high accuracy while ignoring objects, reducing false alarms. When safety thresholds are crossed, the system can slow or stop operations and trigger emergency shutdown if required. Sensors provide 360° coverage while remaining imperceptible to operators, with real-time monitoring and operator usage statistics available for added oversight.
Wardiam Robot – Adaptive Safety Zones
Enables people and robots to work safely in the same environment by dynamically adjusting operations based on human proximity. Its sensors distinguish between people and surrounding objects, gradually slowing the robot as a person approaches and stopping completely if the safety zone is crossed. When the area is clear, the robot automatically resumes its task, ensuring both safety and efficiency. The system integrates alarms and real-time monitoring, providing continuous protection while supporting seamless human–robot collaboration.
The Result: Transforming Collaborative Workspaces
Ontech CEMF® technology underpins both Wardiam Safety and Wardiam Robot, creating safer and more efficient collaborative environments. These systems prevent accidents, maintain workflow continuity, and optimise operational safety.
A Vision for the Future
With continued growth in manufacturing, logistics, and other automation-heavy sectors, demand for adaptive, high-reliability safety systems will increase. Ontech Group is at the forefront of this shift, delivering technologies that support evolving safety standards and enable seamless human-robot collaboration in the Industry 4.0 era.
Contact us to explore how Ontech CEMF® solutions can improve safety and efficiency in your operations.
