Noise management solutions for mining
Whether your mining operation is open cut or underground, or a preparation plant for coal, iron ore, hard rock or soft rock material, Vanguard Technologies has the technology to solve your mining noise management needs and help maximise your operations.
We work closely with our mining customers to understand their operational noise constraints and deliver outcomes beyond their expectations.
Real-time noise monitoring with alerts/alarms
With our noise monitoring technology, you can monitor performance in real time, set thresholds based on compliance limits to trigger immediate alerts, and implement immediate, automated remediation action or prevent regulatory thresholds from being breached.
Integrate operational data, weather forecasts, model impacts, and explore mitigation options
Integrate available operational data and weather forecasts to deliver integrated real-time noise modelling that can both analyse and predict potential impacts, and test potential mitigation work to see what its effects will be in the real world.
Mining noise management for mine sites
Comprehensive and accurate risk assessment before a project begins can prevent days or weeks of lost operation, or even the loss of entire operations, not to mention unexpected financial impacts. However, sometimes pressure from stakeholders can restrict the amount of time or money operators have to complete critical risk assessments. During the 10-year planning process for one of Australia’s leading bauxite mines, our Nexus product delivered unrivalled foresight and critical insights into potential noise issues.
Accurately map noise risk before it becomes an expensive problem
Our customer’s future bauxite mine had more than 250 pits and haul roads, which required an intricate transport and logistics system. It was critical that any constraints on the long-term plan were identified and minimised so that the operational window could be maximised and maintained at optimal levels. Operations included both day and night activities—Nexus needed to deliver accurate results so that mining noise management risks could be mitigated.
Back to the Future
Using Nexus and 3 years of meteorological data, they modelled and analysed more than 16,400 scenarios to predict the mine’s future noise risks. Nexus used a range of variables, including:
- day versus night operations
- meteorological conditions
- pits, haul roads, and topography
- mine plan
In a matter of hours, these variables, combined with the meteorological data, helped our customer generate noise risk maps and data that were used to mitigate risk and understand constraints for each month of the year.
Nexus is the next step in the process of returning to optimal operations
To preserve and grow the critical numbers that make up a customer’s bottom line, Nexus was developed and configured to gather, record, and present facts in a format that is:
1. Easy to collect
2. Easy to collate
3. Simple to interpret.
Ready-to-action risk classification outputs
Thanks to Nexus, our customer gained valuable insights about potential noise risk to threshold levels. The rich and detailed data provided by Nexus also allowed them to separate their pits into high, medium, and low risk, for both day and night activities:
- High: 80–100% likelihood (over a year) of not being able to mine in that pit without exceeding the threshold level at a receiver
- Medium: 20–80% likelihood (over a year) of not being able to mine in that pit without exceeding the threshold level at a receiver
- Low: 0–20% likelihood (over a year) of not being able to mine in that pit without exceeding the threshold level at a receiver.
This information can be transferred to risk maps for immediate use, plotting high to low risk areas across both day and night operations.
Our Products
Nexus: Predictive Environmental Noise and Dust Intelligence
Nexus helps industry plan operations, avoid noise and dust compliance breaches, and reduce the risk of complaints. It’s a new approach to environmental management that uses real-time predictive modelling with operational data, measurements, and calculations based on planned activities.
REMS: Environmental Monitoring
Manage noise, dust and vibration compliance in real time with Remote Environmental Monitoring System (REMS) and reduce risk. REMS is available in a range of configurations to suit your needs. Existing third-party hardware can also be retrofitted and integrated into REMS to provide a comprehensive, accurate environmental management system.
Service and Support
We offer a range of services and support to suit your needs. We continue to evolve, innovate, and respond to our customers’ changing business needs. We work with global and local partners to provide services such as installation, preventive maintenance, field work, and software support.