Digital Terrain and Roobuck collaborate at the device level to improve safety and connectivity to underground personnel
Digital Terrain and Roobuck collaborate at the device level to improve safety and connectivity to underground personnel
Digital Terrain Founder and CEO Andrew Rouse and Roobuck Director and General Manager Henry Gong are excited to announce they have signed a collaborative partnership which will allow for direct device level technology integration, not just in the cloud.
Digital Terrain is now a reseller for Roobuck technology and hardware and aims to incorporate this into their Simbio stack of Products to add further value to their client base through a number of collaborative initiatives. The first point of integration is with their Simbio tablets and the Roobuck Smart Cordless cap lamp.
Founder and CEO Andrew Rouse comments “As the technology available continues to improve and change, it is important that we collaborate with like-minded companies to improve our speed of delivery and focus on value for our customers. This is achieved with trust and a great relationship between companies so that our teams can come together openly and honestly to deliver real value. Integrating on a device-to-device level enables our end users to receive timely information when it matters, not at the end of the shift, or never at all enabling true change and improvement. We are excited to collaborate with Roobuck on this journey”
The Roobuck Cordless Cap lamp comes equipped with Wi-Fi/BLE/RFID/NFC and an inbuilt IMU. Their latest model is also Intrinsically safe, meaning the technology can be used in underground coal mines. The Simbio solution is already in use in underground coal in addition to their larger presence in underground hardrock.
Device level integration is unique and enables key personnel to understand and make decisions when it matters
Both companies are enabling the devices to communicate with each other. A simple use case is when the Simbio device receives a message and depending on its urgency highlighted, proceeds to flash the cap lamp, alerting the operator there is a message. The flashes range from rapid ones to highlight an immediate response to a casual few flashes to say there is something there to look at when time becomes available. This enables yet another touch point to the workforce to ensure their safety is paramount.
They also have the ability to assist in confirming locations of personnel. For example we can improve the confidence that a person is in a particular area if a number of devices are enabled and assigned to them. Unforeseen events to an operator wearing the cap lamp, which can be identified via a button triggered duress call or automatically recorded via IMU movement detection, could send a message to the tablet to alert others of someone needing to come and check on their welfare.
“We are looking forward to working with the Digital Terrain teams to identify use cases whereby having both devices communicating can improve safety, reduce downtime or increase productivity” mentions Dane Zielinski-Nicolson, CTO for Roobuck.
About Roobuck
Roobuck is a leading provider of Mine IoT Solutions and Devices, Cap Lamps, Safety Lights, and other Explosion-proof Products. Its products are recognised throughout the industry as a cost-effective, high-quality solution which can be adapted to any site specific requirement.
For more information visit: https://www.roobuck.com.au/
About Digital Terrain
Digital Terrain is a Mining focussed technology business who can rapidly deploy their solution to realise immediate benefits to the workforce and improve timeliness of data. They provide the Simbio Suite of products including Magman explosives management and a number of OT devices.
We are proudly the first in the world in 2016 to implement a large scale handheld device solution underground, working offline or on-line across multiple locations and continue to improve it every day. We track all mining processes, not some, making it a universal system for your operation.\
The unique selling point is our system came from mining, real world, multi-site and change management processes. The back-end data model of Simbio is over 15 years mature, eliminating teams of people to establish and configure a new system. Our solutions are offered not just as a blank database, it is a system already setup and ready to configure, we can go paperless from day one!
Contact Shaun Brennan for any questions, or service information.
Shaun.Brennan@digitalterrain.io
