Aeromesh Systems understands the challenges of mining environment. Mine owners are being pulled in many directions such as ensuring operational efficiency, safeguarding work-force, meeting regulatory requirements for government compliance, ensuring sustainability, while controlling the costs.
Mining 4.0 and Network Connectivity
The mining operations advancements for adapting Mining 4.0 and beyond suggests real-time data collections, automating the flows, monitoring the alerts and taking quick actions upon those in real-time.
Fleet management systems shall soon be having to accommodate fully or semi- autonomous vehicles – generating large amounts of data being exchanged between vehicles and central monitoring systems for safe and efficient operations.
Surveillance and drones’ video and other data will be crossing gigabytes! Dozens of sensors will be sending large amounts of data to central monitoring
systems. Many operations management personal in field also sending critical data and getting actions notices from central monitoring teams. All of these can only happen with extremely reliable connectivity exists between all field units and central systems.
There are many options ranging from using private 5G networks to fiber connected hot-spots and point-to-point wireless links. Neither of them seem economically viable for extremely harsh and hostile environments of open-pit or underground mining areas. Private 5G is costly. Fiber is fragile. Hotspots are patchy. Mines can’t afford fragile networks as the downtimes can cost millions.
What AeroMesh Systems Offers
AeroMesh offers a perfectly balanced solution to ensure reliable connectivity across entire mine, with its multi-hop wireless mesh networks that are self- healing and self-tuning, easy to expand, and support very high performance at lower latencies across multiple wireless hops.
Drilling equipment, heavy earth moving vehicles and other vehicles can remain in constant connection with the wireless mesh, with very quick handoffs between different wireless base-stations as they move.
The network can be scaled up or down or quickly shifted from one point to another due to its self-discovery and self-configuration features.
Key advantages of AeroMesh solutions
- Multi-Hop Mesh Coverage: Adapts to dynamic mine layouts with no single point of failure.
- Long-Range Connectivity: Reliable signal across kilometres with minimal infrastructure.
- Rugged Hardware: Dust-resistant, weatherproof, built for underground & surface operations.
- Fast & Easy Setup: No trenching or cabling needed; deploy in hours, not weeks.
- High performance & Low latency: Intelligence in every node constantly selects best available path to route data across multiple-hops, minimizing latency and ensuring highest performance.
Key Components of Aeromesh’s ConnectSphere technology
- PTMPs series of equipment for modular, multi-radio mesh backbone for fixed blanket wi-fi coverage
- Mobile Wireless Solutions for mounting on vehicles and equipment for reliable and fastmobility, and relay of mesh to nearby vehicles – minimizing coverageholes
- Central Wi-Fi controller for easy configuration, management, and maintenance of the entire Wi-Fi mesh equipment infrastructure
The Business Value of Aeromesh Solution:
- Lower TCO: Cut costs compared to 5G or fiber networks.
- Safety: Real-time worker communications and emergency alerts.
- Compliance: Automated reporting for production and safety.
- Efficiency: Maximize uptime, streamline operations.
- Future Ready: Supports AI, drones, and sustainable mining.