Watch our panel of experts at 3D-P as they have an open forum and discussion around wireless connectivity in mines.
Wireless Connectivity in Mining – Forum and Discussion
The Intelligent End Point – It’s not just a bullet proof radio
Let’s face it, 3D-P’s Intelligent End Points (IEPs) are as rugged as all get out. Hopefully, you will have seen them in action on YouTube as we shoot them, drop them out of planes, throw them in a lake and blow them up with a civil war canon.
Supporting the performance of your mine with Network-as-a-Service
Remote work and cost cutting can affect the performance of the wireless network you rely on for your operations. Allocated budget might be postponed, personnel count reduced, yet your operations need to perform more efficiently than ever. Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) might help you address those challenges by ensuring you rely on a technology solution that provides…
The Cost of Supporting Your Network
3D-P works with a diverse, wide variety of clients – large to small, quarries to mines to airports, located all over the world – and during my tenure it has been very interesting to note both the differences, and commonalities between the clients and the diverse solutions we employ. For example, no matter the industry,…
5 Cost-Effective Ways to Protect the Performance of your Wireless Network
As covered in previous blogs, the performance of a mine’s wireless network typically decreases with time. This is caused by a number of factors, but one of the most common is a lack of dedicated personnel. It’s often someone’s part-time job to ‘keep the network up and running’. Initially this may be fine, but over…
Why wireless connectivity for your digital mine doesn’t have be complex and expensive
Mining influencers, conferences, magazines all talk about the need for miners to digitalize at the risk of losing market share to competition. This statement can be overwhelming and individual circumstances should be applied to it. Miners might raise some of the following questions: 1) what does digitalization really mean?, 2) how does it apply to…
Why smaller mining operators struggle to surf the digital trend?
Cost, onsite support and inability to justify short-term ROI have all contributed to the incapability of many smaller operators to invest in the deployment of near real-time applications on-board their mobile equipment. Add the cost of the application- whether be dispatch, asset health, etc. – to the cost of deploying and maintaining a full scale…
5 Reasons Why Skipping your Service Level Agreement Renewal Might Cost You More Than You Think
Service Level Agreements (SLA) are traditionally seen as an insurance policy. It’s great when you need it but its value tends to be questioned after a few years, if it’s not fully leveraged. The situation has become worse over the last few years, coming out of the mining downturn, as many miners decided to take…
Improving network and application management though complete hardware integration
As more data is collected from your mobile fleet for real time monitoring and data analytics, the pressure placed on your mine’s wireless network has never been so high. Often associated with the collection of this data is an increase in hardware installed on-board your mobile fleet for all the required applications, as well as…