Everything IoT GLS | October 2017

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Enabling Digital Mining:IoT Challenges and OpportunitiesDr Jonathon Ralston

CSIRO: Australia’s National Research Organisation

Commonwealth Scientific Industrial & Research Organisation

Dirty

Dull

Dangerous

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What Can Mining Be Like?

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

ACT

Mining Process

THINK

Situational Awareness Decision SupportTrusted

AutonomySENSESENSE

THINK

ACT

Approach: Increased Mining Automation

Remote Management

Manually Operated

Information Driven

Digital Mining

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

IoT for Mining Use Case | Longwall Automation

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

Shearer Automation: The Solution

Drum height

Eickhoff

Drum height

DBT

Thermal Infrared

Optical marker band

Manual operator

input

Gateroad creep & retreat

Drum height

Visualisation

Face Alignment Horizon Control

SPMS (inertial navigation)

Other sensors

Joy DBT

Eickhoff

Joy

Landmark Process Control – Cut Model

DBT

Joy

available now

in development

wir

ele

ss

wireless

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

LASC Longwall Horizon Control | CSIROGeological Seam Sensing

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

LASC Automation: Impact and Value

1. Productivity: Total estimated net benefit: ~$790M*

2. Adoption: 70% of operating longwalls in Australia

3. Deployment: Global accessibility through OEMs

4. Platform: LASC open standard = extendable

5. Development: ROI enabling ongoing innovation

* ACIL Allen Consulting, 2014. “CSIRO’s Impact and Value: An Independent Assessment “

http://www.lascautomation.com

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

IoT for Mining Challenges

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

http://www2.deloitte.com/.../digital-disruption-harnessing-the-bang.html (2012)

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

Mining requires higher performance than other industries.

IoT-based solutions need to be:

Physically robust: harsh operational environment

Compliant with regulations: enclosures, explosion risk zones

Accessible and deployable: installation, ease of inspection

Low/zero maintenance: ease of access, redundancy

High performance: highly reliable in operational contexts

Functional Requirements for Mining Applications

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

Practical Challenges for Mining IoTPut Sensor Here…

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

Practical Challenges for Mining IoTNetworking…

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

Immaturity: emerging ecosystem = some chaos

Interoperability: many standards but agreement mixed

Connectivity: not uniform, hard in some industrial environments

Data Management: security, privacy, governance, provenance, storage

Deployment-at-Scale: lack of interoperability and architecture

Power: Source, usage, longevity (harvesting)

Landscape: complex, many players (see chart)

Some Practical Challenges for IoT in Mining

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

Complex IoT Ecosystem | Deployment Pathways?

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

IoT for MiningOpportunities

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

• Increasingly an information driven, closed-loop enterprise

• Desire for increased visibility, flexibility and integrationacross the value chain

• High integrity automation needed for safe and robust operations

• New sensing developments critical to deliver increased safety and efficiency

Emerging IoT OpportunitiesSafety, productivity and sustainability

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

Key Messages

1. Resource limited world

2. Service-oriented delivery

3. Minimised transaction cost

4. Interconnected, shared information

IoT Accelerators: Catching waves?

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

CSIRO and IoT | Call to Action

Interested for Collaboration?

Industrial Internet Consortium | Mining Working Group

CSIRO Live IoT Blog – broader IoT Applications

Happy to connect you with the CSIRO innovation pipeline

IoT for Mining | Drivers | Use Case | Challenges | Opportunities

Summary

IoT captures the physical – digital connection using sensors,

networking, and processing

The value of IoT for mining is increased situational awareness,

decision support, and trusted system autonomy

IoT is providing opportunities for SMEs, mining OEMs, mining

service providers and technology vendors – starting now…

CSIRO | Delivering Impact

Contact | Jonathon.Ralston@csiro.au+61 7 3327 4702 | www.csiro.au/coalmining

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