DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING EQUIPMENT IN METALLURGICAL INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
The invention relates to the field of metallurgical industrial plants. The problem addressed by the present invention consists in providing reliable identification of equipment in a metallurgical industrial plant, which identification is not sensitive to the harsh ambient conditions. The problem is solved by a device and method for identifying equipment. The equipment has a three-dimensional identifying tag (10), in particular a perforated plate or a plate with three-dimensional patterns. A receiver (1) is a time-of-flight (TOF) camera with a photonic mixing device (PMC) sensor, which senses the equipment (13) with the three-dimensional identifying tag (10), and an evaluation unit (2) identifies the equipment (11) unambiguously using the sensed three-dimensional identifying tag (10).