ConductVision Enterprise
ConductVision times haul truck queues at the shovel, checks people on foot for hard hats and vests and logs haul road dust for mine operations teams.
3 detectionsConductVision detections on this photo. Photo: Demir Busel, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.
Mining operations present some of the most hazardous working conditions in any industry, with blast zones, haul road traffic, unstable rock faces, and confined underground passages all demanding constant vigilance. Traditional safety monitoring relies on manual observation, radio communication, and periodic inspections that leave critical gaps during shift changes and in remote areas of the pit or tunnel network. ConductVision's technology can add visual analytics to the cameras already at open-pit and underground mines. It can check blast zone clearance, watch haul road traffic, estimate stockpiles and track people in confined spaces.
Outcomes
Haul trucks queue at the shovel when dispatch sends too many to one loading face.
Queued trucks burn fuel and engine hours while another loader waits for work.
Fitters, surveyors and samplers walk the pit floor and the crusher area among moving equipment.
A person without a high-visibility vest is harder for a haul truck driver to see.
Water trucks run to a schedule, while haul roads dry out at different rates.
Dust drifting off site draws complaints, and the mine has no timed record to answer them.
Mining sites operate across sprawling, multi-level geographies where visibility is obstructed by dust, weather, and terrain. Haul trucks and heavy equipment share roads with light vehicles and personnel, creating collision risks that intensify during shift changes and low-visibility conditions. Blast zone clearance verification depends on manual headcounts and radio confirmation, and stockpile measurement requires periodic surveyor visits that produce data already stale by the time it reaches production planners.
ConductVision can process feeds from pit-rim cameras, haul road intersections, portal entries and drone overflights. It can detect people in exclusion zones, watch vehicle spacing on haul roads, confirm blast zone clearance and estimate stockpile volumes from several camera angles. Underground camera networks can track personnel location and detect ventilation anomalies, cap lamp status, and equipment positioning in real time.
What the model sees
ConductVision detections on this photo. Photo: Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.
ConductVision detections on this photo. Photo: Rob and Stephanie Levy from Townsville, Australia, CC BY 2.0, cropped.
Endpoints
Each endpoint is defined before the pilot starts, with what is counted, its unit and how the results are broken down.
| Endpoint | How it is counted | Unit | Broken down by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PrimaryShovel queue time | Minutes a haul truck waits in the loading area before the excavator starts loading it. | Unit:minutes per load (median) | By:Loading face, shift |
| SecondaryLoad time | Minutes from a truck stopping beside the excavator to the truck leaving the loading area. | Unit:minutes per load (median) | By:Excavator, shift |
| PPE rate on foot | Share of person-minutes on foot in the pit and plant with a hard hat and a high-visibility vest worn. | Unit:% | By:Area, shift, item |
| Dust hours | Hours with a visible dust plume on a haul road, from the first to the last frame of each logged plume. | Unit:hours per day | By:Road segment, day |
Each pilot measures ConductVision on your own footage against a sample checked by hand, before anyone relies on its numbers.
Queue time error
Difference between the ConductVision queue time and a reviewer's timing of the same sampled loads.
seconds (median absolute difference) · by loading face
Truck recall in dust
Share of haul trucks a reviewer sees in sampled frames that ConductVision also detected, in clear and dusty air.
% · by camera, visibility
Dust alert precision
Share of dust alerts that a reviewer confirms as real plumes in a hand-checked sample of stills.
% · by camera, time of day
Capabilities
Counts and tracks people in each camera view, by zone and hour.
Classifies, counts and tracks cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles and bicycles.
Checks hard hats, vests, goggles, gloves and masks against each zone's rules.
Watches water, wildlife, vessels and smoke at rivers, wetlands and shorelines.
Spots and tracks small drones in the sky over sites and perimeters.
Use cases
Cameras positioned around blast perimeters can scan for personnel, vehicles, and livestock within exclusion zones before shot-firing sequences. Visual confirmation of zone clearance can supplement radio roll-call procedures, providing an independent verification layer that reduces the risk of incomplete evacuations.
Intersection cameras can detect light vehicles, personnel on foot, and equipment approaching haul road crossings simultaneously. Proximity alerts can be issued to dispatch and displayed on road-side warning systems when separation distances fall below configurable thresholds, particularly during low-visibility conditions caused by dust or rain.
Multi-angle cameras and periodic drone imagery can generate three-dimensional point clouds of material stockpiles. Volume estimates can be updated daily or on-demand, providing production planners with current inventory data without waiting for manual survey schedules.
Cameras at portal entries, refuge chambers, and key intersections can track personnel entering, moving through, and exiting underground workings. Real-time location data can improve emergency muster accuracy and ensure that exclusion zones in active headings are respected during blasting and ground support operations.
Visual tracking of excavators, loaders, haul trucks, and drill rigs can capture operational states including active digging, hauling, idling, and maintenance downtime. Utilization metrics by equipment type and shift can inform fleet optimization decisions and rental versus purchase analysis.
Fixed cameras on pit walls can capture imagery at regular intervals for change detection analysis, identifying bench crest movement, tension crack development, and surface water drainage issues. Progressive deformation can be tracked over days and weeks, providing geotechnical engineers with visual evidence to supplement prism and radar monitoring.
Related
Tracks PPE, people and heavy equipment across the jobsite.
Watches crews, trucks and equipment at plants, well pads and tank farms.
Counts traffic and watches crews on bridges, rail lines and roads.
Pilot
Tell us about your sites and cameras, and a ConductVision engineer replies with a scoping plan built around the endpoints above.
