Available from MiX Telematics, MiX Fleet Manager Premium comprises a sophisticated onboard computer that collects and transmits valuable vehicle and driver data.
In the ever-evolving landscape of the mining industry, the integration of digital technologies has become imperative. However, the industry’s unique challenges make achieving seamless connectivity a formidable hurdle. As mining ventures delve deeper into this digital realm, the complexity of managing diverse data streams continues to escalate.
From extraction to distribution, telematics can manage every aspect of a company’s assets including lighting towers or generators, right through to heavy vehicles like trucks, buses, and state-of-the-art machinery in mines. Mining managers are focused on keeping assets and personnel safe, ensuring constant access to their full fleet by regularly scheduling maintenance, achieving their green goals by lowering their carbon footprint, lowering their operational costs, and improving their bottom line.
With a focus on key performance indicators (KPIs), MiX Telematics provides technology aimed at elevating mining capabilities, allowing mining companies to connect their business with a single, integrated platform that monitors equipment, assets, and fleet vehicles through vehicle and video telematics.
Our flagship solution, MiX Fleet Manager Premium, comprises a sophisticated onboard computer that collects and transmits valuable vehicle and driver data. Driver behaviour, performance, fleet locations, engine diagnostics for preventative maintenance, and optimised route planning are tracked and monitored to aid a business in improving productivity & efficiency. The solution also tracks a range of connected metrics in real-time, improving asset utilisation while reducing operating expenses. This pre-emptive information gives site managers full visibility to all areas of their operations; equipping them with the data to continuously improve efficiency and performance.
Advancements in AI-powered technology have enabled the utilisation of video telematics in mining. The MiX Vision Al dashcam solution uses advanced machine learning to monitor risky driving behaviours and fatigue that could lead to fatal accidents. The camera solution, coupled with the tracking solution offer data and controls so that when incidents do occur, there is a trail of evidence to facilitate investigation, resolutions, and further corrective actions.
Moreover, MiX Telematics has embraced newer technologies to introduce modern solutions for data access and visualization. These include embedded dashboards, PowerBI for self-service analytics, and MiX Integrate for raw data retrieval. MiX KPI Manager leverages powerful fleet data, offering customisable self-service analytics to track performance on key issues affecting (mining) fleet risk, safety, efficiency and sustainability.
The mining sector is also particularly sensitive to the impact that operations can have on the environment, and it’s our objective to demonstrate the efficacy of telematics to improve not only the health of employees on-site but to help companies reduce carbon emissions and achieve sustainability targets. “Additional benefits of telematics solutions in mining include optimised onsite communication, task and journey management, driver behaviour and performance monitoring, improved driver and employee safety, improved site, vehicle, and asset safety,” says Henry Smith, Fleets Sales Director at MiX Telematics Africa.
“From a MiX Telematics perspective, the solutions offered are refined and developed continuously to meet customer demand. As technology develops and becomes more accessible and affordable; the (mining) industry is realising the added value of telematics solutions” concludes Smith.
