Farewell patrol light, Australian mines use networking lighting to make it easy

One of the largest mines in Australia is using the IOT lighting platform to track and manage its portable lighting towers.

The broad Roy Hill opencast iron mine in Western Australia used diesel generator driven lighting equipment to provide lighting for miners, but positioning became a major problem because of its large scale (only 344 kilometers long).

Rebecca Kerr, the technical director of the mine, said, "before, during the shift, you would be surprised at the number of lighting towers."

"Once they find that the lighting tower doesn't shine, they usually have no fuel, so they have to go to repair and refuel."

"Our strategy is to patrol at night and find out which lights to go."

Roy Hill now installed a GPS telemetry system on the lighting tower, which provides maintenance information for site workers using a mobile tablet computer. This information is collected by the Internet of things sensors, such as how long the tower is open and how much fuel is burned by the generator, which will help to reduce the energy cost of the mine.

The solution can also adjust the lighting level during sunrise and sunset and automatically reduce lighting during the planned shutdown.

The remote operation center can now open and close the lighting tower, Kerr says.

The iron mine lighting tower is traditionally based on metal halide lamps, but in recent years it has been transferred to LED, and the lumen packaging is increased.

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