Mining Magazine August 2015 | Page 14

TECHNOLOGY
Driverless vehicle
which can vary from a smartphone to a mining truck , utilize embedded technology to transfer data over a network without requiring humanto-human or human-to-computer interaction . In fact , the concept aims to utilize analytics in order to replace the human decisionmaking process altogether .
The mining industry has turned the innovation dial up in the past few years , implementing newer and more diverse technologies to solve age-old questions . The big potential for loT in the mining industry lies in the equipment it uses .
In recent years , mining companies have begun equipping machinery with unique sensors and software to collect data from everyday activities . This “ big data ” is now emerging as potential information that can be analyzed and utilized to allow manufacturers the ability
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