Whether underground or on the surface, priority number one in mining is workforce safety. Slips, trips, and falls in high-risk environments can mean serious consequences. Physical loss or damage to assets causes costly downtime, posing tremendous concerns for mining companies. Furthermore, the industry requires digital technologies – automation, improved manufacturing processes, and production optimizations – to promote operational efficiency and standardize the work process.

Taking these concerns into account, VF&T’s Mining Industry Solution protects employees, operations, and assets with high efficiency. This solution harnesses the power of AI technology and top-tier products to help ensure workforce and facility safety, fluid operations, and improved productivity in general.

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AI-enabled applications for safer operations

Keeps operations like mining, minerals exploration and drilling running safely with cutting-edge AI technologies by intelligently detecting potential problems with data collected, improving the security and minimizing downtime.

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All-in-one solution for efficient operation and management

Versatile and efficient systems help users establish integrated management of the entire production process in their mining applications across the industry.

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Unified platform with visualized dashboard

The digitization of the whole mining process enables real-time status inspection with all data. A visualized dashboard is used to help supervisors and teams get on-site information fast and make better decisions.

Personnel safety management

VF&T’s mining industry solution ensures the workforce complies with safety regulations, helping users conduct continuous monitoring in critical areas with AI-powered analytics, and meet the requirements to identify, manage, and prevent potential risks.

Operational monitoring

VF&T’s mining solution adds visibility to mining operations and assists managers in predicting operational failures with intelligent video analysis. Incidents such as temperature anomalies and fire hazards can be detected and verified in the early stages, reducing losses and unnecessary downtime.

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Site security management

The mining industry usually requires various high-value assets. VF&T’ s solution builds the first line of perimeter protection to prevent intrusions and safeguard critical facilities from physical attack and property damage or loss.

Centralized management

VF&T’s Solution for the Mining Industry features an all-inclusive dashboard to present perceived data in an intuitive, visualized way. The dashboard equips operations teams with a bird’s eye view and multidimensional analytics, displaying on-going site operations and real-time inspection status with detailed information and data indexing. All of this come together to inform and elevate decision-making.

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VF&T’ s solution for the mining industry boosts health and safety for personnel with continuous monitoring of critical areas using AI-powered analytics. The solution can further identify, manage, and prevent potential risks. It also helps mining operators comply with safety regulations – ultimately saving lives.

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PPE compliance detection

Wearing PPE (personal protective equipment) elevates worker safety during the production and maintenance processes in hazardous environments.

With VF&T’ s intelligent cameras and terminals, managers can remotely check employees’ protective gear efficiently to maintain compliance and prevent injuries.

Violation detection

Violation detection inspects safety compliance and risks at the work site, providing safe distance detection, absence detection, sleeping-on-duty detection, and more. Managers get notified when their employees step into dangerous or restricted areas, or when someone breaches local regulations.

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Dangerous activity detection

Dangerous activity detection identifies emergencies and hazardous events that can threaten worker safety, such as falling down, running, unauthorized gathering, and more, helping managers respond in a timely manner.

Automated Access Control

VF&T’ s algorithm-enabled MinMoe Face Recognition Terminals helps ensure authorized access with a “touch-free” experience even under low or zero-light environments, automatically managing the personnel access and reducing potential hazards and unnecessary losses.

The mining industry involves complex operational process including extraction, crushing and screening, transportation, and more. The harsh mining environments may also lead to difficulties in on-site operating and supervision. VF&T uses smart technologies to make managers’ supervision smarter and more effective, mostly reducing losses and unnecessary downtime and improving overall efficiency.

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Processing monitoring

Protecting workers in expansive, open areas such as large pits can pose many challenges. Site managers must conduct continuous safety monitoring of the entire production process.

VF&T’ s Mining Solution helps users keep track of the entire operational process by using a control center connected to various optical cameras deployed at worksites, providing more efficient and secure remote management with 24/7 online protection.

AR live interaction

Augmented reality in video imaging delivers an enhanced, panoramic view of every operational process in time without losing details. Mine operators can identify emergency issues quickly or review events remotely by bridging the physical and virtual worlds with 3D imaging.

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Remote anomaly detection

VF&T thermal cameras help capture temperature changes in the environment or critical equipment, rapidly detecting potential risks such as burning material or conveyor belts after long-distance transportation. When excessive temperatures are detected, our thermal cameras immediately trigger alarms on the central platform, equipping managers with critical information for the best response.

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Timely awareness of risks with AI technologies

VF&T’ s AI-powered imaging analytics supports real-time alerts on asset and equipment abnormalities in mining operations. Integrated with on-site voice reminders and video, the open AI platform helps users intelligently and automatically identify potential failures early and intervene in time, greatly reducing asset downtime.

Real-time truck GPS tracking and monitoring

VF&T’ s solution expands insights to the entire transportation process. Companies can create schedules and assignments for drivers in advance with defined routes and delivery times, as well as keep track of the whole operation in real time through GPS positioning and video monitoring. Post-event video recordings serve as valuable evidence of incidents such as traffic accidents.

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Comprehensive driver protection & assistance

With driving behavior analysis, blind spot detection and advanced driver-assistance systems, our solution provides intelligent driving analysis and detection, including fatigued driving, smoking, and making phone calls. The comprehensive driving assistance brings collision warning, deviation alarms, and blind spot detection, along with other functions to enhance safety and protect personnel.

Improved decision-making with diverse data & reports

A variety of report models are presented to transportation companies with high levels of visibility, providing critical information such as mileage, online hours, events & alarms, on-time arrivals, and more, which helps managers quickly handle emergencies and make better decisions.

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The mining industry mostly involves larger areas at multiple sites with various types of expensive infrastructure. VF&T’s solution helps users build the first line of perimeter protection, preventing intrusions and safeguarding critical facilities from property damage or loss. Thanks to clear and accurate remote imaging by our thermal and optical products and technologies, security management just got easier – even in low-light environments.

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Perimeter protection at multiple sites

This solution helps safeguard critical infrastructure, from perimeters to critical zones, with a series of optical cameras and radar and thermal devices. It can stop potential intruders in real time, alerting personnel of their presence when approaching restricted areas or attempting to breach a perimeter.

Perimeter protection for extreme environments

Power supplies and Ethernet cables are not suitable for most mining areas. In this case, VF&T offers its Solar-powered Security Camera Kit which requires no wiring for power or data transmission and can be installed virtually anywhere where there is a 3G/4G signal. Users can enjoy timely monitoring 24/7 with alerts even in complex geographical and environmental conditions. This solution effectively eases routine inspections at remote areas, minimizing human and hardware costs.

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Discover abnormally high temperatures before the worst happens

Fire prevention is one of the core concerns of the mining industry. Spontaneous combustion, the accumulation of flammable materials, or smoking in unsafe areas can cause fires resulting in damage to surrounding assets as well as huge property losses. VF&T’ s Mining Solution helps detect abnormally high temperatures and smoke and generates alarms before the worst happens.

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Entrance & Exit Management

VF&T offers flexible and efficient entrance & exit control for the mining industry. With ANPR and visualized data analyses, this solution enables non-stop passing of vehicles with authorized license plates and block-list alarm to improve traffic efficiency. Recording of vehicle license plates, images, and video also helps digitalized, data-driven management of vehicles entering the park.

On-site vehicle regulations management

VF&T’ s vehicle checkpoints can be deployed on arterial roads in refinery and chemical plants to detect and send alarms upon detection of violations. Violations include speeding, illegal parking, and more, reducing potential risks while improving operations. All alarms and notification will be sent to security guards for further handling.

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