Mining facilities are highly complex and hazardous and include numerous levels of tunnel systems thousands of feet underground in addition to above surface facilities. Mining operations require taking special measures to ensure personnel safety. Providing full visibility to people's whereabouts in case of controlled explosions or in case of emergency is extremely crucial. Mobile equipment visibility in underground or above surface drives operational efficiency and prevents equipment misplacement and loss.

AeroScout's visibility solutions use standard Wi-Fi wireless networks to deliver direct benefits to mining operations. The solution offers automated monitoring of location as well as telemetry conditions such as temperature, pressure and humidity of remote assets and vessels. AeroScout's tags and equipment are also available in an Intrinsically Safe form factor for explosion-sensitive environments. Customers can improve personnel safety, increase operations efficiency and overall profitability.

People Safety

AeroScout’s T2 Intrinsically safe tags can be carried by miners or integrated to the miners’ cap lamp battery cases.

• Mustering – In case of emergency evacuation, personnel are mustered at specific gathering points, their presence is automatically confirmed and recorded; search and rescue crews can also view the location of missing people and they can be tracked in real-time while in search.
• Security and access control – AeroScout Exciters installed at gateways and tunnels provide instant and accurate alerts upon tagged personnel moving from one area to the other or entering restricted areas.

Ore Production Visibility

The AeroScout solution enables to track trucks and Load Haul Dump vehicles (scoops) underground or above surface in order to better monitor ore production. The system detects which routes vehicles carrying ore have gone through and the amount of ore yielded from each area can be monitored.

Equipment Visibility

AeroScout provides complete visibility over equipment, machinery, vehicle fleet and critical assets. The solution allows users to quickly search for an asset and view its real time location displayed on a map. Location and status information is populated to enterprise applications (e.g. ERP) and meaningful business events (such as operational status of jumbo drills, shortage of tools) through standard API’s. The solution prevents loss of equipment and dramatically increases labor productivity.

Telemetry and Sensors

AeroScout tags feature temperature, humidity and motion sensors and can link to a broad range of additional sensor and telemetry data sources. This enables the tags to wirelessly transmit valuable data, and automatically trigger alerts or actions based on reaching a threshold. For example, monitoring exposure level to gases or monitoring the temperature of sensitive items.