If you’re looking for technology to help you track your yellow metal mining equipment and other assets, you’ve come to the right place. At Cartrack, we have various types of tracking units and sensors to help you monitor the movements, fuel usage, and health of your mining equipment.
As the years go by, technology is shifting the way mines operate. According to Empire CAT, new technological innovations for mining operations have brought in increased productivity, better safety, improved equipment health, and less environmental harm.
Today we’re going to give you more insight into how you can track your yellow metal equipment and why you should partner with us for improved mining operations.
You can track various types of mining equipment, like excavators, bulldozers, and blast drill rigs. Each machine has its own nuances and will therefore require a specific tracking unit. With the right fleet management system, you'll be able to manage all these machines more effectively through technologies like GPS trackers, telematics, sensors, and cameras.
The challenges that fleet managers often encounter with tracking yellow metal are:
With the right technology and a better understanding of your operational needs, you can overcome all these challenges.
Your fleet operators must follow safety protocol as per the industry regulations, but when you don’t have technology in place, ensuring safety and compliance becomes difficult. Some laws often get overlooked, which results in recurring accidents. The lack of information pertaining to those accidents leads to never-ending investigations because finding the root cause is also difficult.
You need an accurate analysis of fuel consumption to save costs. But again, without any technology helping you, fuel consumption levels become difficult to trace. This increases the chances of unnoticed fuel theft or leakage, both of which will cost you a fortune.
How do you know if your operators are being productive or just leaving the machines on idle? How do you know which equipment is being overused and on the brink of a breakdown? The inability to measure productivity levels and your fleet’s utilisation rate brings about efficiency problems and maintenance issues.
Another issue with monitoring equipment usage (or the lack thereof) is ensuring that each machine is in the hands of the right people. As we all know, those who can operate specialised machines are often paid more. So in an effort to make more money, operators sometimes take advantage of the fact that you can’t track equipment licences and they then use machines they aren’t qualified for. This leads to more possible accidents and extra pay that wasn’t budgeted for.
There’s no way to know where all the machines are if you don’t have GPS tracking units. Without them, it makes it nearly impossible to notice when machines have left the site. It also exposes your vehicles, high-value cargo, and equipment to theft, which you might not notice until much later.
At Cartrack, we’ve got various devices that you can use to track your yellow metal equipment and drivers, like:
Together, these solutions ensure compliance, enhance safety, boost productivity, and help you be better at maintaining the machines.
Here’s a breakdown of how these solutions work:
You can use our GPS tracking units to keep track of the whereabouts of yellow metal and other vehicles. This ensures they remain on-site. Our GPS tracking units also have telematics capabilities, which means you can see how your operator behaves when using your yellow metal.
Ensure all your vehicles and yellow metal machines remain within the set mining speed limit using our speed buzzers. The buzzer is placed underneath the chair, and when a driver goes above the speed limit, the whole seat vibrates. This alerts the driver, prompting them to lower their speed. The speed buzzer you notice is also helpful for quickly noticing possible theft, like when a person tries to speed out of the site carrying your minerals.
You can install AI-powered cameras in your excavators, bulldozers, mobile cranes, and other equipment to enhance the safety of your operators. Our AI cameras can detect when drivers are distracted by things like cellphones, fatigue, and smoking. They can also detect when drivers don’t have their seatbelts on. Once detected, the camera system releases audible alerts so drivers can make changes and focus on what they’re doing.
Accidents can happen at any time, and calling for help in such a busy and loud environment is difficult. You can install a panic button in each of your vehicles to ensure your drivers get emergency assistance as soon as possible.
Our Power Take-Off sensors help you keep a close eye on productivity levels. You’ll be able to tell the difference between a machine that was just idling all day and one that was actually productive. Let’s use a dump truck as an example; our power take-off sensors will let you know when the tippers go down and up, helping you keep track of how often it happens.
Driving under the influence is a dangerous act, as we all know, and in the mines, it can lead to catastrophic accidents. For this reason, we have breathalysers that you can use daily to ensure your drivers are in the right state to use your equipment and avoid accidents.
For your on-site fuel tanks, we’ve got fuel probes. Fuel probes are the best way to monitor fuel usage in real time. A fuel probe is a sensor placed inside a tank, and each time the fuel levels go up or down, you'll get an alert. This makes it easy to notice an unusual or rapid drop in fuel levels, which could mean someone is trying to steal large amounts of fuel or there’s a leak.
You can also install fuel probes in the tanks of each vehicle to get accurate live fuel consumption levels.
To resolve the issue of operators using equipment they aren’t licensed for, we’ve got Driver Identification (DID) tags. Each tag is linked to a specific vehicle or machine, so you only assign them according to what each operator is licensed to use.
To track mining assets like trailers and conveyors, you can choose any of our three tracking units, which don’t require a power source to function. These are:
The one you choose will depend on your specific tracking needs.
Here’s how they work:
The Cartrack Tag is a device that’s permanently installed in your assets for location purposes. It doesn’t need charging and has a long-lasting battery. This is the ideal solution for tracking assets on a large mining site because you can create a radius around the mine and ensure that the asset remains within that radius.
Our Asset Tracker unit is also another way to ensure you always know where your assets are. It gives you daily location updates, so you never have issues with misplaced assets. Like the Tag, it also has a long-lasting battery life. The asset tracker is an ideal solution for assets that you only need to check on every once in a while.
The Track & Go solution is an asset tracker that can be moved from one asset to another. It’s for assets that don’t always need tracking, like the ones you rent every now and then. This ensures that none of them go missing while they’re with you. They give you real-time updates and are rechargeable.
Our solutions give you more control over your large-scale mining operations and make managing your fleet easier. With us, you save time and complete tasks more quickly, therefore being more productive. You also reduce operational costs and the chances of accidents. Partnering with us ensures that you uphold your commitments and remain ahead of your competitors. So make sure you reach out to us to get the technology you need.
Are you running a mining fleet and looking for ways to improve your operations? We’ve got all the technology you need for yellow metal and other equipment.
