A rugged MineLinkMobile LCD touch screen is installed in the cab of on-site mining equipment. The MineLinkMobile screen displays the real-time information such as cycles, assignments, mine map, KPIs, etc. The onboard mine map provides the operator with awaraness of other vehicles that are operating near them, which road/route that they must take and where their assigned shovel or dump is located. The onboard features will also improve the safety at the mine site.

The KPI screen will provide each operator with all of their individual KPI parameters such as number of cycles, tons per hour, cycle time and many more. This will help the operators to increase their productivity.

MineDispatch is the dispatch control for the MineLink system. MineDispatch provides feature rich information and tools to manage the entire mining fleet. MineDispatch allows dispatchers, supervisors and managers to see and visualize exactly what is happening at anytime across the entire mine site in real-time.

MineDispatch provides important information and visualization such as machine position, machine status, machine activity, detailed operator information and accurate measurements of loads, volumes and dumps.

MineDispatch also provides user friendly tools for dispatchers and system administrators it has tools to simply and accurately change the system configuration including creating new roads, new blast/dump locations and boundaries, adding new status information or alerts, adding new material types and many more.

The extremely flexible and interactive MineMap has multiple layers such as GPS history, wireless access point location, landmarks, boundaries and ESRI Shapefiles providing a broad overview of the mine site operations and infrastructure.

Having accurate, timely and comprehensive data is vital to any mining operation. However, the ability to access and interpret the data is needed for effective decision making. The MineView Reporting System uses the world standard MSSQL database that allows for easy access to the data for custom data analysis and reporting requirements.

The MineView interface uses SharePoints and SQL Reporting Server (SSRS) making it quite simple for someone with even the most basic reporting experience to do report customizations and create functional KPI Dashboards. The reports are able to be exported to CSV and PDF formats and can be set to be emailed to site Managers or different departments at pre-determined times.

During the project implementation stage SNCTechnologies will review the customer reporting requirements so the customer has the flexibility to determine the reports that will be needed. A SNCTechnologies database analyst will sit with the customer and gather all the requirements and pull together a Customer Requirement document for the reporting system.

The figure below is a customized real-time KPI dashboard developed for a customer.

Additional customized reports are available upon request.

Below is an Example of a Standard Prestart Check Report

Both of these units were chosen not only based on their unique ruggedness and very high and communications capabilities, but also for their state of the art new generation capabilities and features. To ensure the MineLinkMobile software delivers its best performance, SNCTechnologies though a careful selection process and on-site testing chose two difference on-board LCD computer hardware units.

SNC VMC, a new generation 7-inch vehicle mount computer with dual core Intel® Atom™ processor, is designed for transportation applications requiring real-time vehicle tracking. Adopting the latest low power consumption processor and integrating a WVGA LCD with a brightness of 400nits and a 4-wire resistive touch sensor, SNC VMC does not compromise with its space to sacrifice its functional features. It provides dual CANbus, RS-232, RS-485, USB 3.0, GPIO, analog input, PWM and LAN signal. For security, SNC VMC supports real-time vehicle tracking through GPS and SMS/GSM/GPRS. SNC VMC can also be upgraded to a different LCD resolution and include other features such as LTE, projected capacitive touch, CANbus protocol support and backup battery.

MineLink has been designed by SNCTechnologies dedicated team of hardware and software engineers with many years of on-the-job experience in the mining industry and specific expertise in fleet management systems.

The MineLink onboard units have been designed and built tough for rugged mining conditions. They include an industrial grade Mobile Data LCD Touch Screen Terminal which has been fitted out with the very latest and smartest Intel Atom processor to exceed the intensive onboard data processing requirements. SNCTechnologies has proactively partnered with an international industrial grade hardware manufacturer to ensure that we have the very best-in-class ion onboard hardware. With over a million of these devices operating throughout the world, these units have had years of in-field experience.

MineLink works with SNCTechnologies MineComm communications system to deliver the highest bandwidth capacity while at the same time ensuring efficient frequency channel usage and smooth vehicle travel with high speed data roaming and handover between communication access points across the entire mine site network.

MineLink utilizes state of the art database technology for both the server and mobile devices. It is the most reliable database synchronization framework and was designed specifically for mobile devices travelling at high speeds with very high mobility flexibility, low bandwidth power requirements while holding a consistent connection to the server. It uses SQL databases for easy custom report writing.

SNCTechnologies keeps up-to-date with the worlds continuously changing mining technologies. With non-stop product development the improvements are continuously adding more feature rich modules such as proximity detection, fatigue detection, shovel to truck peer to peer communications, harsh brake/acceleration detection, prohibited zones and much more. The MineLink road map is a continuous development cycle. As new features are developed, trialed and tested they will be automatically updated to the current installed site systems seamlessly. This means your MineLink system is never out-of-date.