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Maximize mining safety and efficiency

Transform asset utilization and worker safety with data-driven intelligence that protects your people, equipment, and bottom line.
Mining And Exploration
Mining Intelligence Excellence

Drive performance through connected operations

Mining and exploration operations face unique challenges in managing complex mobile assets across remote locations, often in harsh conditions. From heavy equipment to light vehicles, maintaining operational continuity while prioritizing worker safety is critical to profitability.
Powerfleet’s Unity platform delivers a single-pane view of your entire fleet, regardless of asset type or manufacturer. Our device-agnostic approach enhances visibility across all operations by unifying data from yellow iron equipment, haul trucks, and support vehicles. This comprehensive intelligence helps you reduce equipment damage, improve worker safety, optimize asset utilization, and extend equipment lifespan – all while lowering your total cost of ownership.
Key Mining Challenges

Solving critical challenges in mining

Mining operations face significant obstacles in equipment management across remote and challenging environments. Our tailored solutions transform these difficulties into opportunities for enhanced operational efficiency, improved worker safety, and substantial cost reduction across your entire mobile asset portfolio.
Safety risks in hazardous mining environments
Mining environments present unique safety challenges, with heavy vehicles operating near workers in difficult terrain and confined spaces. Our AI-enabled video system monitors driver behavior, detecting fatigue and distractions in real-time while providing immediate alerts. This proactive approach significantly reduces incident rates while ensuring compliance with site safety regulations and fatigue management requirements.
Equipment theft and remote asset protection
Mining equipment theft and unauthorized use can cost operations millions annually. Our comprehensive asset tracking delivers real-time location data, geofence alerts, and after-hours movement detection for your entire fleet. Remote lockdown capabilities and detailed usage logs help prevent theft while enabling swift recovery of stolen assets and identification of unauthorized equipment operations.
Inefficient maintenance and equipment downtime
Traditional calendar-based maintenance fails to account for actual equipment use in varying mining conditions. Our platform tracks engine hours, hydraulic system activation, and operational patterns to develop usage-based maintenance schedules. Diagnostic trouble code monitoring enables faster troubleshooting, while predictive analytics identify potential failures before they cause costly downtime.
Limited visibility in remote and operations
Managing assets across remote sites and aboveground operations presents significant visibility challenges. Our robust tracking solutions maintain connectivity even in challenging environments, providing real-time location data and operational status updates. This comprehensive visibility enables more efficient resource allocation, improved project planning, and enhanced safety response capabilities.
Manual data collection and disparate fleet systems
Managing data from diverse mining equipment creates information silos that prevent holistic operational views. Unity’s device-agnostic platform ingests data from almost all IoT devices, OEM systems, and business applications to create a single source of truth. This eliminates manual data collection while providing comprehensive visibility across your entire mining operation.
Mining Operation Success Story

Fleet intelligence driving mining safety excellence

Archrock transforms fleet safety and efficiency
Archrock faced significant safety challenges across its 1,250-vehicle fleet and implemented Powerfleet’s fleet intelligence platform to address driver behavior concerns. Within one year, they achieved a 60% reduction in driver risk scores, a 70% reduction in speeding incidents, 30-40% fewer harsh acceleration events, and a 20% reduction in harsh braking—all while improving fuel economy by 8-12%.
Complete Mining Solutions

Comprehensive tools for mining mobile asset management

Safety Protection

Safety protection

Mining operations present unique safety challenges, with large vehicles operating in rugged terrain and confined spaces. Our AI-powered dashcams monitor driver behavior, detecting fatigue and distractions in real-time while providing immediate alerts.

Driver scorecards identify high-risk operators for targeted training, while detailed reporting demonstrates your commitment to site safety. Our fatigue monitoring provides continuous vigilance for mining-specific challenges like night operations and long shifts.

This approach reduces incidents, lowers insurance costs, and supports compliance with mining safety regulations and fatigue management requirements.

Asset Security

Asset security

Protect your high-value mining assets with advanced tracking designed for remote operations. Real-time monitoring provides visibility across widespread sites, while geofence capabilities alert you instantly when equipment moves outside designated areas.

Our solutions include remote equipment lockdown features to swiftly respond to potential theft, increase recovery rates, and reduce losses. Usage logs help identify unauthorized operations, ensuring only qualified operators use assets.

Our robust tracking devices maintain functionality even in challenging environments for sites with limited connectivity, ensuring you never lose visibility of critical assets.

Maintenance Optimization

Maintenance optimization

Mining equipment faces extreme conditions that traditional maintenance schedules fail to address. Our tools track engine hours and operational data to develop service schedules based on actual equipment use rather than arbitrary timelines.

Predictive maintenance identifies potential issues before they cause breakdowns, while diagnostic monitoring enables faster troubleshooting. This approach reduces downtime, extends equipment life, and optimizes budgets by eliminating both under- and over-servicing.

Our system monitors components exposed to harsh conditions, preventing catastrophic failures that could strand equipment in remote locations or cause significant production delays.

Operational Visibility

Operational visibility

Mining operations span vast areas and aboveground environments where traditional tracking falls short. Our visibility solutions maintain connectivity in challenging locations, providing managers with complete awareness of all assets.

Status updates and location tracking enable efficient resource allocation, while customizable dashboards deliver the metrics that matter most. Integration with existing mine planning and dispatch systems extends the value of your current technology investments.

Our platform provides enterprise-wide visibility for operations with multiple sites, helping optimize equipment distribution and ensure appropriate asset allocation across different mining operations.

Fuel Management

Fuel management

Mining equipment consumes significant fuel, making effective management essential for controlling costs. Our monitoring tracks consumption patterns across your fleet, identifying inefficient operations and potential fraud.

We monitor fuel burn rates for heavy equipment during different operational phases, helping optimize use patterns. Idle time tracking identifies opportunities to reduce unnecessary engine running, directly impacting your bottom line.

Driver behavior monitoring reveals patterns that increase consumption, enabling targeted coaching. Detailed reporting documents the impact of your fuel-saving initiatives with clear ROI calculations for efficiency programs.

Equipment Utilization

Equipment utilization

Mining equipment represents a significant capital investment that must be optimized. Our utilization analytics provide insights into asset deployment, identifying underutilized equipment that could be redeployed and overused assets that might require support.

Real-time data enables dynamic allocation based on shifting priorities and production requirements. Historical patterns support accurate forecasting and planning, ensuring appropriate equipment availability for future projects.

Our tracking provides transparency and accountability for rental equipment, ensuring you only pay for actual operational time. This approach maximizes productivity while controlling costs across your mining operation.

Purpose-Built Mining Fleet Solutions

Solutions that drive results

Our specialized hardware and software solutions address the unique challenges of mining and exploration operations, from surface mines to aboveground facilities.

VisionAI: Intelligent driver safety

An AI-powered camera system that detects driver fatigue, distraction, and unsafe behaviors to prevent accidents in challenging mining environments through real-time alerts and coaching.

Unity platform: Complete fleet intelligence

Unified data platform that transforms complex mining fleet information into clear, actionable insights for smarter operational decisions across surface and aboveground operations.

Vehicle Gateway Enterprise: Advanced connectivity

Advanced IoT gateway provides comprehensive vehicle data collection, real-time tracking, and connectivity and is designed to maintain communication even in remote mining locations.

Reliable asset tracking for harsh environments

Asset monitor is a factory-sealed wireless multi-sensor for rugged conditions, where product and asset status is critical.

Powered Asset Gateway: Advanced asset tracking

The powered asset gateway is an asset tracking solution that offers continuous, real-time visibility while in transit.
Measurable Mining Operation Improvements

Proven results for mining fleet operations

Enhanced Worker Safety and Compliance

Enhanced worker safety and compliance

Protect your workforce with comprehensive monitoring that reduces incidents by up to 60%, supports regulatory compliance, and provides documentation of safety protocols for mines’ department reporting.
Optimized Maintenance and Extended Asset Life

Optimized maintenance and extended asset life

Extend equipment lifespan by up to 30% with usage-based maintenance schedules that prevent over-servicing and unexpected failures. Optimize maintenance budgets while maximizing uptime in challenging mining environments.
Improved Resource Allocation and Utilization

Improved resource allocation and utilization

Deploy mining assets more effectively with comprehensive visibility into equipment location and utilization, ensuring the right resources are available at the right time and place to maximize production efficiency.
Reduced Operational Costs and Environmental Impact

Reduced operational costs and environmental impact

Lower operational expenses through reduced fuel consumption (8-12% improvement), optimized routes, decreased equipment downtime, and prevention of unauthorized use and theft while minimizing environmental impact.
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