Mining

Remote Mining Equipment Condition Monitoring

Mining operations often involve expansive sites with assets scattered in remote locations. Monitoring the condition of equipment in these remote areas poses logistical challenges. The distance factor complicates the timely and accurate assessment of equipment health, making it crucial to overcome the complexities associated with condition monitoring in remote mining assets.

Dusty Environment with Water Dripping

Mining sites often contend with a harsh combination of dust-laden air and water dripping, creating an environment that poses a significant challenge for equipment. Navigating these conditions requires specialized approaches to monitoring and maintenance.

Machine Monitoring: High and Low-Speed Machines

The mining industry operates a diverse array of machinery, ranging from high-speed crushers to low-speed conveyors. This diversity introduces challenges in managing the maintenance needs of machines with significantly different operating speeds.

Each category demands specific attention to condition monitoring to ensure optimal performance, making it a complex task to address the varied requirements.

Robust Hardware with IP68 Rating​

Nanoprecise sets the foundation for your success with hardware built to endure the harshest conditions. Our robust hardware, featuring an IP68 rating, ensures durability and resilience in challenging environments.

Wireless IoT Hardware with Light Energy Harvesting

Our wireless IoT sensors are equipped with light energy harvesting capabilities, designed to function both indoors and outdoors. By drawing power from available ambient light sources, it eliminates the need for frequent battery replacements, ensuring sustained and uninterrupted functionality.

Remote Condition Monitoring

We bring the power of Remote Monitoring with IoT & AI to the forefront, eliminating the need for human intervention in routine monitoring processes. This technology ensures continuous equipment monitoring, providing real-time insights into the health and performance of your machinery, even in remote locations.

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Case Study: Remote Condition Monitoring in Mining

A Fortune 500 mining company faced high operational risks from low-speed, remote conveyor belt pulleys that were difficult to monitor. These assets, critical to crusher feeding operations, had no redundancy, making failures disruptive.

To address this, our MachineDoctorâ„¢ 6-in-1 wireless sensors were deployed on the conveyor belt pulleys. The system delivered real-time fault detection and AI-powered anomaly alerts, even at low speeds.

When an unbalance was detected on one of the pulleys, an RMS velocity spike triggered a Stage 4 fault alarm, indicating immediate attention was required.

This early warning prevented 12+ hours of unplanned downtime, avoided costly damage, and delivered a 20X return on investment—all by detecting the fault 27 days in advance.

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