Mining Magazine February 2019 | Page 36

INDUSTRY 4.0

“ HUMANS MAKE ERRORS , SO WE ’ RE REDUCING THOSE BY REMOVING HUMANS FROM THE FLYING PROCESS BUT EXPONENTIALLY INCREASING THE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT ’ S HAPPENING ”

— Dr Pippa Malmgren , Founder , H Robotics
36 dominated by a business model where companies hire pilots at a cost of thousands of dollars per day . But here ’ s the problem … They tend to fly manually , which means none of the data is comparable over time - hugely important when you ’ re dealing with physical sites at risk from environmental factors . Pilots own your data , and you have to pay them in addition , to access it . So you could be paying as much as $ 100,000 to receive your data with the added problem that they don ’ t know your business as well as your employees do .”
H Robotics maintain they have built a tool , not a toy , that even the most junior person can easily deploy without having to be a professional pilot thanks to the ability to set different flight paths for autonomous use across a mining site . “ Humans make errors , so we ’ re reducing those by removing humans from the flying process but exponentially increasing the knowledge and understanding of what ’ s happening . Because all of the data from our Flight- Cloud can be immediately overlaid with whatever software the client requires .
FEBRUARY 2019