Smart Mining Edge Communication: Real-Time Data Flow for Safer, Smarter Operations
The Remote Sensing Edge Computing/Continuum Decentralized Communication System is a software component aiming to assist in the modernization of mining operations. Its role is to gather data from a wide variety of on-site sensors and devices, process or standardize them at the edge, and securely transfer them to a cloud-based platform. The communication system acts as a bridge between on-site mining operations and remote cloud services, ensuring that critical operational data is always available for analysis, decision-making, and system management.
The system is designed to handle data from diverse sensors employing various formats and communication protocols, providing seamless interoperability and data unification. By translating heterogeneous data into standardized models, it allows various systems and services within the mining ecosystem to communicate and collaborate effectively. This flexibility is particularly important in mining environments, where equipment from multiple vendors and generations often coexist, each producing telemetry in unique formats.
In addition, the communication system can perform minor AI/ML computations at the edge, enabling data filtering prior to transmission, thus reducing the volume of non-critical data sent to the cloud. In an era where sensor networks generate increasingly large volumes of data, this capability is essential for optimizing bandwidth usage, lowering operational costs, and ensuring that only relevant, high-value information reaches centralized analytics services.
Overall, this communication system is critical for enhancing safety, operational resilience, and data-driven decision-making in the mining sector. It enables mining operators to leverage advanced cloud services, and remote management tools by ensuring that accurate, standardized, and timely data flows continuously from the edge to the cloud. Notably, by transmitting useful data — such as temperature, CO₂ levels, and equipment health metrics — the system enhances workers’ safety and ensuring operational compliance.
WP5 – Mine.io integration processing and digital mine solution
T5.4 Remote sensing, edge computing, edge continuum / decentralized communication system (Leader: HMU, Participants: TUB, ACC, INN, INE, USAL)
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