Archives: Communications in mining

A new agreement between Inmarsat, Harvest Technology Group and Inmarsat Partner, AST, will provide Harvest’s customers across the mining, energy and utilities sectors with the tools to remotely monitor assets, coordinate site surveys and conduct maintenance operations over real-time video and audio transmitted via ultra-low-bandwidth satellite communications, Inmarsat says. These sectors are facing increasing pressure[…]

sensemetrics Inc, the global Industrial IoT (IIoT) and cloud technology company which transforms sensor data into real-time business intelligence, has announced it has joined forces with Singapore-based Ackcio, a provider of wireless sensor connectivity devices, to automate data management and analytics for mutual customers automating geotechnical and structural instrumentation in underground and surface mining, and[…]

Inpixon has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nanotron Technologies GmbH, a company with experience delivering proximity awareness and collision avoidance technology in mining. The $8.7 million transaction is expected to increase Inpixon revenues by over $5 million on an annual basis and to be accretive, it said. Nanotron, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, has[…]

COVID-19 has been a game-changer for many industries, with an inconceivable amount of companies closing or temporarily stopping their work, report Pat Lowery and Dr Nick Mayhew*. The metals and mining industry has been no exception. By April this year, almost 250 mine sites in 33 countries had been disrupted by the virus with government-mandated[…]

South Africa’s Nerospec Group and Germany’s Schmidt Kranz Group have joined forces to, they say, implement flexible wireless automation and digitalisation solutions for its mining customers. The two companies signed a shareholder agreement this month to form the new German entity, Nerospec SK GmbH. Nerospec Group is renowned for its reliable wireless communication and machine[…]

Fatigue Science, a global leader in providing human fatigue and performance predictive analytics and fatigue management information systems to heavy industry including mining, has announced the launch of 14-Day Fatigue Forecasting. The company said this “breakthrough advancement” in fatigue management technology is a powerful new addition to its Readi™ Enterprise Suite software platform. “Readi Enterprise[…]

Sandvik has joined the Sustainable Underground Mining (SUM) project being run by LKAB at the same time as the Volvo Group has exited the Sweden-based collaboration. The moves come as the iron ore miner looks to “further strengthen a joint endeavour towards sustainable underground mining at great depths”, it said. To develop the digitalised, autonomous[…]

Communications and IT services provider, Speedcast International Ltd, has signed a long-term agreement with Nokia to deploy its industrial-grade private wireless solutions globally via the Nokia Digital Automation Cloud. Through this new collaboration, Speedcast is providing remote backhaul, data and voice connectivity to enterprise customers, covering areas up to a radius of 30 km and[…]

Step by step, automated driving is increasingly becoming a feature of our mobility. With each step, ever larger data volumes need to be processed fast to allow quick reactions to any given situation. AT&S is developing a robust and resilient interconnect concept for a high-performance computer chip. In order to meet these requirements, a very[…]

ABB says it has linked with the University of Western Australia’s (UWA) new Energy & Resources Digital Interoperability Industry 4.0 (ERDi i4.0) TestLab, run by Enterprise Transformation Partners (ETP), to advance Industry 4.0 open process automation standards. This includes collaboration on AMIRA Global’s P1208 Interoperability Enablement for Natural Resources project, which is designed to realise[…]