Mining vehicles play an important role in today’s mining operations in terms of productivity and efficiency.
Fast forward to today, the application of edge AI technology allows for autonomous mining vehicles and its effects are threefold: (1) Safety, to remove human error from the equation; (2) Reduce operation cost, whether it is maintenance or labor cost; and (3) increase efficiency by introducing autonomous machines that can work 24/ 7 that does not fatigue.
Whether it is minor lapses or repetitive workloads that wear out the human concentration, implementing AI inference technology can eliminate all, if not most human errors.
But in some industrial applications, such as autonomous mining truck has other additional benefits such as putting workers out of harm’s way and into a control room where one can still oversee all the tasks he would otherwise perform while operating the truck in person.