Artificial Intelligence – Changing The Way Mines, And Mining People, Operate

The most obvious use currently of AI in mining operations is providing a'better experience' for automated pit vehicles. Autonomous mining vehicles, from the haul trucks to the graders, loaders and excavators as well as drilling rigs, are hooked into the IoT. These machines produce copious amounts of data about their routines and routes.AI applied to this data allows operators based in operation centres hundreds of kilometres away to improve these routes and routines. They can do things like tweak the way the dump trucks take corners, or excavators load trucks, to make the entire process more efficient.This has potential cost and time saving implications. The vehicles can also safely work around the clock and don't need to stop for shift changes.