MINEXPO PREVIEW
remote range extenders are available to support enhanced ranges. Provix offers remote control and video systems in 2.4, 5.8 Ghz and 900 Mz frequencies to suit the preference and operational requirements of each individual mine.
While Provix Remote Mucking Control and Video systems have been a mainstay for many years, it is only recently that more attention has been focused on remote drilling and bolting. With stricter regulations around working at the face becoming prevalent in many jurisdictions, the ability to provide close up viewing and operation from 75 + m away has become a requirement.
Initially deployed over three years ago at Rio Tinto’ s Diavik diamond mine with great success, these rugged camera systems have received widespread support from other mines where remote drilling and bolting operations are required. Goldcorp’ s Red Lake operation has deployed the Provix system on jumbos and bolters from various OEMs, and experienced the same rise in productivity.
For remote bolting operations, the equipment operator is positioned 15- 80 m back from the face in the safety and comfort of a sea-can that has been established as a mobile control station. The operator runs both the TeleRemote controls and views the Provix video system from the safety of the sea-can, where three large LCD monitors provide an up close and personal display of the back, the face, the booms, the screens and the positioning of the drill. Laser guidance allows for rapid boom alignment. Post implementation feedback from both supervisors and operators stated conclusively that with the zoom lens on the cameras, the operator can view the face and drill positioning more effectively on the remote system than if they are actually sitting in the cab of the bolter.
RIEGL will have its VZ-4000 very long range terrestrial laser scanner available for demonstrations on the show floor, as well as the RiCOPTER high performance unmanned aircraft system on display.
The scanner’ s unique echo digitisation and online waveform processing technology are the keys to enabling the scanner to perform long range measurements with high accuracy and high precision, even allowing
RIEGL says the VZ-4000 offers“ superior and the scanner to operate unrivalled long range measurement performance in poor visibility and of up to 4,000 m without reflectors while demanding situations maintaining completely eye safe operation“ caused by dust, haze, rain, snow, and other difficult environmental situations encountered at mine sites.
The scanner can also be operated in different modes: stand-alone operation with an integrate graphical touchscreen user interface, remote operation on a notebook via LAN or WiFi, remote control VNC Viewer with any standard tablet PC or mobile device via WiFi, or a customised operation by third party tools / applications based on RIEGL’ s interfaces and scanner libraries.
The RIEGL RiCOPTER is a high performance unmanned multi-rotor aircraft system equipped with RIEGL’ s VUX-SYS sensor system to offer a fully integrated turnkey solution for professional UAS surveying missions.
The excellent measurement performance of the VUX-1 SYS, comprised of a VUX-1UAV LIDAR unit, an IMU / GNSS unit, antenna, control unit, and digital cameras, result in survey grade measurement accuracy. RIEGL claims the RiCOPTER“ is the first complete, turnkey UAS LIDAR solution from one manufacturer.”
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