Mobile Data Terminal – MDT
Check out our latest white paper focused on the robust functionality of our RavTrack PC software and WayWORD MDT including how they integrate with our GPS transponders enabling your mining clients to utilize a full featured GPS tracking system to monitor and manage their entire mining operation from one or more PC’s located anywhere in the world.
View Raveon’s white paper on RavTrack 6.5 PC Software and WayWORD MDT for mining operations.
GPS Tracking and Asset Management for open pit mining
Know where all your mine equipment and operators are, who is in what vehicle and when, which ones are the most efficient or productive, and how they are being used on site – all with no recurring fees. Learn More
Why use GPS trackers instead of two way radio communications
Some two-way voice radios may be used for locating personnel. When trying to decide if GPS transponders like Raveon ATLAS PT or a voice radio is the right choice, keep these very important points in mind: Learn More
GPS tracking with RavTrack versus GSM or GPRS for Open Pit Mines
Most GPS vehicle tracking systems use a “cellular” wireless telephone carrier system to collect position information from the fleet in the field and transport that information back to headquarters. You may see acronyms such as GSM or GPRS describing the system. The RavTrack system uses a very different approach, that of local user based radio. These two approaches will often appeal to different types of users. Learn More
Creating Virtual Wireless Proximity Alerts
Raveon offers many options for wireless proximity alerts. A system can be as simple as connecting a light or buzzer to the M7 data radio or our RavTrack PC may be used to visualize tracked objects as they move. Learn More
Raveon Targets Mining Industry with Innovative Applications
Raveon Technologies, is a solutions provider of wireless networking and GPS transponder
systems for the mining industry has thousands of GPS transponders installed worldwide. For the past 18 month Raveon has focused on developing mining specific enhancements within our RavTrack GPS mapping software.
Raveon’s specific enhancements for the mining industry include:
- Full featured tools that enable mining operations and management to monitor all their heavy machinery equipment.
- Driver and operator Fatigue monitoring to ensure employee safety when operating equipment and driving vehicles.
- Two way text messaging via MDT.
- RFID tags for identifying which operators are using which equipment or vehicles and where and for how long.
- We can even track individual mining pit staff and visitors directly from a location using our newly released RavTrack PC software.
RavTrack PC software enables mining operations to track and monitor in real time all their important assets and personnel to ensure that mining operations and equipment are being used effectively. In addition to our already powerful RavTrack GPS tracking system being used in open-pit mines for years, we released our new Mobile Data Terminal (MDT), the WayWORD, last year. When used in conjunction with our RavTrack GPS System, we offer a solution for open pit mining companies with a mining focused full service solution to monitor, track, report, view, log, alert, and communicate with the fleet including a list of programmable alerts focused on key mining activities to keep your crew and equipment running optimally.
RavTrack PC Software Features include:
- Applications for mine sites to track site specific work as well as loads or yields taken from the mine that can monitor employee productivity.
- Driver fatigue systems to monitor drivers and ensure they don’t fall asleep including recording with has alarms and alerts for the driver and supervisor.
- Live up to date GPS monitoring of all your assets, equipment and open mine pit personnel.
- RFID tags used to log who is where and using what equipment at any time.
- Full text communications via the MDT, pre-programmed communication alerts with 2 way directional operation.
- A RavTrack PC operator can send a text message to an MDT. People in the vehicles can acknowledge text messages, send status, and identify themselves with RFID tags.
- Personnel ID features include ID tags assigned with names, ID reporting of RFID tags, and more.
Status reporting from MDT pre-programmable status buttons with LED indicators for 2-way communications. - Digital inputs for telemetry, vehicle movements, alerts for predefined geo-fencing, along with parameters such as speed, battery voltage, temperature, alert count, idle time, rule violation counts, etc.Alerts, GPS locations, movements and preset alarms, geo-fencing all stored in a SQL database for instant retrieval or replay of previously recorded events, alarms, and other information.
Mining Fatigue Management Solution
Spectrum Fatigue, a South Africa based company focused on the mining industry and the distributor of both the Raveon RavTrack real-time GPS tracking system and the new HaoNai Industrial MR688 Driver Fatigue Monitor in South Africa, has successfully integrated the MR688 with Raveon’s RV-M7 series wireless GPS/data transponder for its driver fatigue management solution.
The MR688 monitors the driver’s eyes for abnormal closure, indicating the driver may be overly fatigued, and sets an alarm condition accordingly. The integration, using the digital output from the MR688 connected to the related digital input on the Raveon real-time GPS transponder, allows the transponder to transmit every Alarm/Siren from the MR688 to the mine site remote control room environment, along with precise position information, and immediately pinpoints the driver and vehicle of concern on an operational map of the site.
The control room, uses Raveon’s RavTrack PC software package to track the mine vehicles in real time, and to capture and alert control room staff of any driver fatigue issues with both visual and audible alerts, and historically logs the event. The RavTrack PC software can also issue an email, text message, or tweet, for alarm notifications to off-site personnel. The Spectrum Fatigue integration of the MR688 fatigue monitor, together with the advanced features of the RavTrack system, offers a complete fatigue monitoring and vehicle tracking solution to any Opencast Mining operation. The system is in operation in leading South African mines today, and more sites will be implementing the solution soon.
Driver Fatigue has been identified as a major cause of accidents and incidents at Opencast Mining operations, and the Spectrum Fatigue solution greatly improves operational safety and efficiency. According to the owner of Spectrum Fatigue, Pieter Jacobs. The implementation of both the MR688 and RV-M7 transponder in a mining truck, offers our customers the best solution to actively monitor driver activity and fatigue related alarms. For more information on this fatigue monitoring and tracking solution email Pieter Jacobs at pieter@ifatigue.com or visit the Spectrum Fatigue’s website at www.ifatigue.com to review the Fatigue product in more detail.
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