- Signed a business agreement (MOU) with LG U+ for joint development of IoT-combined smart protective gears
- Plans to support partners by developing a “Safety and Health System App” that allows pre-work safety check and management

Hyundai Elevator (Song Seung-bong, CEO) announced on the 27th that the company will take the lead in promoting Zero Series Accident through a safety system that combines IoT with smart technology.
Hyundai Elevator signed a business agreement (MOU) today with LG U+ on “a collaborated effort to jointly develop and expand a smart protective gear system” at the Hyundai Group Building (Yeonji-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul), and agreed to develop three smart protective gear IoT sensors (beacons for safety helmet chin strap, safety hook, and safety belt), create a worker-only app and a control platform, and verify and spread safety solutions.
Smart protective gears, synced with smartphones and digitally connected to the hoistway’s internal beacons which recognize the presence of workers, will send warning messages when workers on site do not have their safety gears on or their lifelines connected to their harness. In addition, real-time data will be collected to improve the field’s general culture of safety, and systematic management is expected to reduce serious accidents and prevent casualties.
The two companies plan on selecting 30 pilot sites to apply the smart safety gear system and conduct verification from May. Based on the verification, they plan to expand and distribute the system across their offices and partners within this year.
Jeon Seung-hoon, managing director of LG U+ Smart Infrastructure Division, noted, “We expect the new smart safety gear system will enable us to reduce the number of fall accidents, which account for the largest proportion of serious accidents, and it will be the beginning of our provision of various smart safety solutions that can be of practical help to workers and industrial sites.”
Hyundai Elevator aims to complete the development of a “Safety and Health System App” that enables workers to use smartphones to manage pre-work safety checks (TBM), suggest detected risks and improvements, and access safety manuals. It plans to provide the app to directly managed sites and partner companies by February.
Lee Jung-Han, CSEO of Hyundai Elevator, said “We will strive to realize Zero Serious Accident on all sites of the company across manufacturing, installation, and service divisions based on the smart safety system we built with Chungju Smart Campus, where systematic safety management is possible with the introduction of the 4th industrial revolution technology.”