Mining & Minerals
Technology built for extraction environments.
Mining and minerals operations depend on connectivity, control and security systems that keep working across distributed sites, harsh conditions and continuous processing.
What makes it hard
The challenges we are asked to remove.
- Dust, vibration, moisture and temperature ranges that shorten equipment life
- Wide, changing site layouts that outgrow fixed cabling and radio coverage
- Process control and corporate IT sharing infrastructure without clear segregation
- High cost of interrupting crushing, screening and processing plant
- Remote sites with limited on-site technical support
Diagram showing mining technology as connected layers: fixed and mobile plant monitoring interfaces, site-wide wireless and backhaul networks, OT segregation and cybersecurity, operational and safety communications, CCTV, access control and perimeter security, all supported by managed operations.
Sector context
What makes technology on a mineral site different
A mineral site has no fixed geometry. The working face advances and haul roads are re-routed as the extraction sequence proceeds, so radio line of sight and cable routes that were valid at survey can be invalid a season later. At a quarry, the Quarries Regulations 1999 place duties on the operator covering, among other matters, the stability of excavations and tips and the control of vehicles and traffic. Mines fall under separate regulations. Exclusion zones around blasting and the operator's traffic rules set when a fixed device can be installed or reached for maintenance.
Instrumentation on a mineral site often produces evidence rather than telemetry. Mineral planning permissions commonly carry conditions requiring noise and dust to be monitored and records to be made available to the mineral planning authority, so those readings have to remain intact and attributable for as long as the condition applies. A weighbridge used to determine quantity for trade falls under the Weights and Measures Act 1985, which restricts the use for trade of weighing equipment that has not been passed as fit for that use. Changes to the parts of the system that produce the weight result are not ordinary IT changes.
Relevant capabilities
How we respond.
Ruggedised and industrial networking
Wireless coverage across pits, plants and stockyards
OT and IT segmentation with secure remote access
CCTV, access control and weighbridge integration
Resilient site-to-site connectivity and monitoring
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Next step
Bring the complete environment into one conversation.
Tell us what you are planning, replacing, integrating or trying to stabilise. We will help define the right next step.