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How real-time tailings dam monitoring works
workforce , combat climate change and ensure interoperability . It allows us to take our knowledge and capability and give back to the industry to tackle some of its biggest challenges .”
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“ Inmarsat is a company where you can run into rocket scientists ; I ’ m just the guy that ’ s used to drilling holes ,” jokes Carr . “ The tailings dam monitoring solution came about from a conversation with our head of solutions , architecture and enterprise , who was working with IoT technology on a water dam in Australia to measure things like water levels and piezometric pressure . That was the genesis of our approach and shows what you can achieve with our synergies across the military and aviation sectors and their use of drones and autonomous systems .”
Carr reveals Inmarsat is currently looking at how drills could be run via
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How real-time tailings dam monitoring works
In collaboration with Knight Piésold UK , Inmarsat is delivering remote tailings dam monitoring with real-time analysis . Inmarsat ’ s satellite-enabled IoT ( Internet of Things ) solution collects data from a range of industry standard sensors via edge connectivity such as LoRaWAN ( Long Range Wide Area Network ), before it is transferred across Inmarsat ’ s L-band satellite network to a single cloud dashboard .
This enables mining companies and national regulators to gain a comprehensive view of the status of their dams with granular metrics such as pond elevation , piezometric pressures , inclinometer readings and weather conditions displayed in one place , no matter where the mine is located . The solution also features sensor-agnostic capabilities , so it can work with both existing sensors and new devices .
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