Abstract: It is important to pay attentions on safety management, monitoring, and early alerting for the entire process of the crane due to its high-risk because of the complex structure and operating environment. This paper focuses on four parts of tower crane management, which are the layout plan management, personnel management, equipment maintenance management, and operation space management. Through the literature reviews of the application of artificial intelligence in this field, this paper enumerates the current management status and lists those insufficiencies. Also, this paper lists and the intelligent auxiliary, decision support, and the future development. Moreover, actual needs are analyzed for the further development of artificial intelligence.