COLLABORATION
TECHNOLOGY
44 tailings and other facilities , then we can mine the basic resources needed to tackle issues like climate change .”
COLLABORATION
Partnerships are vital for Inmarsat as it seeks to exploit synergies across the industries it serves . Integral to the development of its tailings dam monitoring solution has been an alliance , dating back to 2017 , with innovation partners Knight Piésold UK ( KP ), a member of the international geotechnical , tailings management and engineering consulting group .
“ The current tailings auditing and management business consists of semi-annual or annual site visits with recommendations based on these visits ,” explains Richard Elmer , Regional Manager for Knight Piésold UK . “ Instrumentation data is often collected on-site and mining companies are largely reliant on human activity for the collection , storage and analysis of the data . Our collaboration with Inmarsat provides our clients access to the latest and best available technology for real time data collection and analysis . We see this as a game changing improvement in how companies monitor their current tailings storage facilities .”
“ New standards and principles in terms of IoT , better governance tools and real time monitoring is going to be the direction that the industry is driven ”
— Joe Carr , Director of Mining Innovation , Inmarsat
SUMMER / AUTUMN 2020