Millimetre-accurate distance, position, and volume measurement for port cranes, steel mills, bulk materials handling, and timber processing — built to perform where others fail.
Anti-collision, positioning, and load profile measurement for ship-to-shore, RTG, and stacker cranes operating in harsh marine environments.
High-temperature laser measurement for slab, coil, and billet dimensioning. Withstands intense heat, dust, and electromagnetic interference.
Stockpile volume scanning, conveyor profiling, and hopper level detection for coal, ore, aggregates, cement, and grain handling.
Log diameter, length, and shape detection for sawmills and yard management. Optimises cut yield and inventory accuracy in real time.
Our sensors emit short laser pulses and measure the time of return with picosecond precision. The result: reliable, repeatable distance and position data over ranges from a few metres to several hundred metres — independent of surface colour or reflectivity.
Every Autane sensor is hardened for industrial environments: rated for vibration, dust, moisture, and temperature extremes. No moving parts. No calibration drift. No surprises.
From the salt air of a container terminal to the heat of a continuous caster, our sensors operate reliably where general-purpose instruments fail. IP67 housings, vibration-dampened optics, heated windows.
Achieve ±2 mm repeatability at ranges up to 300 m on natural targets — no retroreflectors, no special preparation, no compromise between range and precision.
Industrial protocols out of the box: Profinet, EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP, OPC UA, CANopen. SDKs for custom integration. No proprietary gateways required.
Our team supports you from specification through commissioning. Site surveys, mounting design, calibration, and long-term service contracts — backed by application engineers, not call centres.
Designed, manufactured, and tested in Germany. Every sensor is individually calibrated against traceable reference standards and ships with full performance documentation.
Mean time between failures exceeding 100,000 hours. No moving optics, no consumable parts, no calibration drift over the operational lifetime. Install once, measure for years.
A major North Sea container terminal deployed Autane laser sensors across its STS crane fleet to provide continuous anti-collision protection between adjacent cranes, vessels, and quayside structures. The system replaced an older radar solution with poor cold-weather behaviour and frequent false alarms.
Twelve sensors per crane provide a complete 3D protection envelope. Edge processing computes safe distances in real time and triggers controlled slowdowns before any operator intervention is required.
Every installation begins with a conversation. Send us your application — environment, target, distance, accuracy requirement — and our application engineers will respond with a recommended sensor configuration.