The US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recognised Freeport-McMoRan Americas with the Institute’s award for Mine Safety and Health Technology Innovations 2014. Freeport-McMoRan Americas received the NIOSH award for its integrated approach to real-time data analysis for changing ground conditions. Canary Systems Inc has played a leading role in developing this approach by providing the critical Single Integrated Platform Mine Monitoring System to ensure that the vast amount of collected data leads to effective risk mitigation.

With the large number of different monitoring technologies required to detect, monitor, and understand moving ground, a single integrated platform is required to ensure timely and accurate notifications leading to appropriate action. Freeport-McMoRan in partnership with Canary Systems has developed a system that is capable of digesting all data produced by its monitoring systems. This single point of interaction provides an easy and intuitive means for site personnel to view monitoring data, ensures systems are operating as designed, produce early alarms and notification of movement outside of predicted trends, and analyse the behavior of all data fed into the system.

Formed in 1997, Canary Systems is a leader in providing integrated geo-monitoring solutions for a broad range of industries including mining. “We help clients better manage risk, monitor performance, and increase the safety of their operations by tying together all loose ends: the hardware required for automatic or semi-automatic data acquisition – and the software to collect, process, store and present the data in a simple and efficient way on a single combined powerful platform.” Canary Systems supplies Multilogger Suite (MLSuite) data management software, as well as other custom and standard hardware solutions for data acquisition