Hosted by local distributor, Madison Technologies, Annual Summit recognises top performing partners for industrial wireless network company, Rajant Corporation. Intelligent positioning solutions provider, Aptella was awarded ‘Fastest Growing New Partner’ at the Australian Rajant Partners Summit held in Brisbane in November. The event, hosted by Rajant’s Australasian distributor Madison Technologies, was a chance for Rajant to recognise contributions by its partners over the year. “We are honoured to have received this award as the fastest growing new partner,” said Andrew Granger, Mining Business Executive Manager at Aptella. “Our success with this solution is thanks to the wonderful support we have received by the teams at both Madison Technologies and Rajant, who have worked alongside us at every stage
Intelligent positioning solutions provider Aptella to distribute Presien’s Blindsight AI safety system throughout Australia and New Zealand Presien and Aptella today announced a distribution agreement to expand access and implementation of Blindsight, the simple, pre-trained AI safety system for heavy industry. By helping plant operators prevent collisions with real-time alerts and comprehensive safety reporting, Blindsight effortlessly protects workers in the most dynamic industrial environments. Unlike other alert systems and safety solutions, Blindsight’s integrated camera and AI software sees, understands, and alerts operators to potential hazards. The Blindsight system can be installed on mobile plant or fixed infrastructure, anywhere. “We developed Blindsight because we wanted to create a world where every worker is safe, and every employer is successful,”
Lauren Baguley, Surveyor, Fyfe was looking for an alternative to UHF when working in the highly vegetated and hilly regions, particularly in the Pilliga Forest near Narrabri, when she was introduced to MiRTK internet enabled corrections from Aptella by a colleague. Ms Baguley and her team focuses on surveying and aerial mapping within the agricultural, construction and mining industries for the Narrabri area. “We do struggle with UHF when we’re out in the scrubby country around here, it’s quite hilly. Where there’s a lot of vegetation, sometimes we can’t even get a kilometre away from the base so there’s a lot of leap frogging going on and having to set up the base multiple times is painful when
ACI Excavations has a reputation for being early adopters of cutting-edge technology, and so it was no surprise that when the company purchased its latest piece of machinery, a 220x series excavator from JCB CEA, they paired it with Topcon’s new X-53x auto excavator system from Aptella. “We go back a long way with Topcon technology, lasers and integrated systems with rotating lasers,” said Peter Stadelbauer, Owner, ACI Excavations. “You have to be one step ahead of the opposition, if you’re not, you run last.” Why did ACI Excavations choose technology from Aptella? ACI Excavations has a long-standing relationship with Aptella and Topcon technology that goes back more than 30 years When the Topcon X-53x auto excavator was
Students at Cecil Andrews College in Western Australia to benefit from world-leading Design Engineer Construct! Learning Programme, with support from Aptella. Cecil Andrews is the first school in Australia to introduce the dedicated built environment course, developed by UK-based COYO. Aptella will work closely with teachers at the college to deliver meaningful learning opportunities with the latest in geospatial technology. Class Of Your Own (“COYO”) is an organisation focussed on showcasing career pathways for young people in the built environment. Its dedicated and award-winning Design Engineer Construct! (DEC) programme assists teachers to introduce an array of skill sets needed in construction and infrastructure projects, including engineering, surveying, architecture and design. “Standard high school curriculums do not include learning
The Problem in mine site monitoring Mine site monitoring has typically been divided into two phases of activity: collection and analysis. With production pressures on site and staff increasingly becoming more time poor, data is collected often at the expense of the analysis. Or more frustratingly, the data has been diligently curated by surveyors and technicians into a variety of packages and then slowly accrues digital dust as geotechnical and mining engineers do not have the time to review it. In my time as a mine geologist, I can confess to collating multiple spreadsheets storing a myriad of surveying and geotechnical data. During this time I recall cajoling surveyors into measuring control points and bribing geotechnicians to download
Sokkia announces the availability of new robotic total stations designed to improve job site productivity. The iX-1200 and iX-600 total stations are professional-level positioning tools for survey and layout in the building construction and infrastructure trades. Engineered for integration with field controllers, software and GNSS receivers, the total stations are designed as part of a full workflow solution. Ray Kerwin, director of global product planning, said, “The high-performance technologies incorporated into the design provide increased prism-tracking strength. Through a combination of optical sensing and ultrasonic motors, UltraTrac technology helps users stay locked onto the prism — and productive with less down time resulting from the need to reacquire prism lock — even in dynamic job site conditions. “The
Machine guidance helps to improve productivity of not only the machines, but the operators on site as well. High precision machine guidance technology provides a 3D visual of each machine’s location in the mine, as well as an accurate status of the machine’s position in relation to the mine plan. Machine guidance uses positioning data to track the location, volume and material type a machine is moving. The machine operator can easily view this information via onboard displays, and use this knowledge to evaluate how they can better work to the mine design. With real-time as-built information available to operators and supervisors, the technology improves efficiency and productivity on site, helping to reduce or eliminate rehandling and rework.
