AI Mining Hazard Intelligence
AI Mining Hazard Intelligence continuously analyzes sensor feeds, video, control system logs, and worker wearables to detect hazards, predict incidents, and flag unsafe conditions across mining operations. It unifies risk monitoring from pit to plant, supporting real-time alerts, safer work practices, and proactive policy decisions. This reduces accidents and downtime while improving regulatory compliance and productivity in high-risk mining environments.
The Problem
“Your mine is flooded with safety data, but hazards are still caught too late”
Organizations face these key challenges:
Control rooms drowning in alarms, camera feeds, and sensor data that no one can fully watch in real time
Incidents investigated after the fact instead of being predicted or prevented ("we only see the pattern once someone gets hurt")
Siloed systems: SCADA, CCTV, wearables, gas sensors, and AI models all generate alerts with no unified risk picture
Difficulty proving to regulators and executives that safety controls and AI systems are working as intended across pit, plant, and underground
Impact When Solved
The Shift
Human Does
- •Watch multiple CCTV streams and dashboards for unsafe behaviors, intrusions, and abnormal equipment conditions
- •Manually review control system logs, event histories, and incident reports to spot patterns or recurring hazards
- •Perform scheduled inspections and walk‑arounds to identify unsafe conditions (e.g., rock fall risk, poor housekeeping, blocked egress)
- •Manually correlate data from gas sensors, geotechnical instruments, vehicle telematics, and maintenance logs to assess risk
Automation
- •Basic threshold‑based alarms on SCADA/PLC and environmental sensors (e.g., gas exceeds limit, temperature too high)
- •Simple rules and scripts in HMI/LabVIEW dashboards to display sensor values and trigger alerts
- •GPS/RFID tracking of people and assets without intelligent risk inference (location shown, but not interpreted)
- •Static camera recording for post‑incident review, with no real‑time object or hazard detection
Human Does
- •Respond to prioritized, high‑confidence alerts and recommendations (e.g., evacuate area, slow or reroute haul trucks, schedule targeted inspection)
- •Investigate AI‑flagged anomalies and near misses, confirming root causes and implementing corrective actions
- •Tune risk thresholds, approve policy changes, and decide where to tighten or relax controls based on AI‑generated insights
AI Handles
- •Continuously analyze multi‑source data (sensors, video, wearables, fleet telemetry, control logs) to detect hazards and predict incidents in real time
- •Run computer vision models on mine cameras to identify unsafe proximity between people and mobile equipment, restricted‑area breaches, PPE violations, and visible signs of instability or spillage
- •Apply anomaly detection and LLM‑based log analysis (e.g., MCP‑RiskCue) to control system data to infer emerging equipment or process risks before alarms trip
- •Ingest data from smart helmets and IoT devices to monitor worker location, exposure, and distress signals, triggering automatic alerts and guidance
Solution Spectrum
Four implementation paths from quick automation wins to enterprise-grade platforms. Choose based on your timeline, budget, and team capacity.
Unified Hazard Threshold Board from Existing SCADA & Logs
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Historian-Based Statistical Hazard Anomaly Detection
Mine-Wide Multi-Modal Hazard Prediction Platform
Real-Time Mine Hazard Digital Twin with Prescriptive Control
Quick Win
Unified Hazard Threshold Board from Existing SCADA & Logs
Creates a single hazard board by overlaying configurable thresholds and simple trend rules on top of existing SCADA/historian data and incident logs. This does not use ML but standardizes how hazard signals are viewed and alerted, giving supervisors a consolidated, near-real-time picture of risk hotspots.
Architecture
Technology Stack
Data Ingestion
Connect existing SCADA/historian and incident logs into a single analytics view.OSIsoft PI System
PrimaryActs as the primary historian from which hazard-related tags (gas, ventilation, equipment status) are read.
Kepware KEPServerEX
Aggregates PLC/field device data and publishes it into the historian via OPC, ensuring critical sensors are captured.
CSV/SQL exports from EHS/incident systems
Provide historical incident and near-miss logs for context, trend charts, and validation of thresholds.
Key Challenges
- ⚠Selecting a small, high-signal subset of tags from thousands in the historian.
- ⚠Setting thresholds that are early-warning but not so tight they create constant false alarms.
- ⚠Dealing with bad or stale sensor data that can flood the system with spurious alerts.
- ⚠Obtaining IT/OT approvals for read-only access to SCADA/historian in a secure way.
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Real-World Use Cases
Coal Mining Safety and Monitoring System Using Labview
This is like putting a smart “control room” inside a coal mine that constantly watches gas levels, temperature, and other safety conditions, and then shows them on a LabVIEW dashboard so operators can react before accidents happen.
LLM Safeguards with Granite Guardian: Risk Detection for Mining Use Cases
This is like putting a smart safety inspector in front of your company’s AI chatbot. Before the AI answers, the inspector checks if the question or answer is unsafe (toxic, leaking secrets, non‑compliant) and blocks or rewrites it.
AI-driven Workplace Safety Analytics for Mining and Industrial Operations
Imagine a smart safety officer that never sleeps, watches every corner of your sites, reads every incident report, and constantly warns you before something goes wrong. AI for workplace safety does that across mines and industrial facilities, turning mountains of safety data, video, and sensor signals into early warnings and clear, simple guidance for workers and managers.
MCP-RiskCue: LLM-Based Risk Inference from Mining Control System Logs
This is like giving a very smart assistant all the machine logs from a mine and asking it, "Do you see any signs that something risky or unsafe is about to happen?" Instead of humans manually sifting through cryptic system messages, the AI reads them, connects the dots, and highlights potential risks early.
AI-Driven Safety Wearables for Industrial & Mining Workplaces
Imagine every worker wearing a smart guardian angel on their helmet or vest. It constantly watches for danger—like bad air, extreme heat, or falls—and warns them and supervisors before something goes seriously wrong.