Monitoring tailings storage facilities (TSFs) isn't always about adopting a one-size-fits-all approach. Whether you have existing sensors and connectivity but lack a data viewing platform, or if there's no infrastructure in place at your TSFs, we have tailored tailings dam monitoring solutions for you. Our satellite-enabled solution offers two tiers of service: Tailings Insight - Cloud and Tailings Insight - Plus — providing varying levels of support to ensure safer and more transparent TSF management globally.

The challenge

Managing tailings dams is highly challenging due to operational hurdles like remote and widely dispersed TSF locations across the globe, and regulatory considerations. However, our Tailings Monitoring solutions can help you redefine the future of mining by addressing these challenges. Safeguarding the lives of thousands, protecting fragile ecosystems, and meeting regulatory compliance have never been so straightforward.

Our solution

Tailings Monitoring - Plus

For those aiming to excel in TSF management or facing connectivity challenges, Tailings Insight – Plus is an ideal choice. Centered around our award-winning cloud application, it sets the gold standard in TSF management. Our solution offers connectivity, integration, and ongoing local support, ensuring deep, real-time insight into your tailings facilities and the conditions that affect them. It’s perfect for those serious about effective TSF management, whether focusing on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) or monitoring hard-to-reach and unconnected dam sites.

Connectivity services

The solution combines Viasat’s Tailings Insight – Cloud application, global L-band satellite connectivity, LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) edge connectivity, sensor integration, installation, training, and ongoing support. Data is transferred from sensors via LoRaWAN, across our ultra-reliable L-band satellite network and into the application. This offers you the granular insight you need, as well as auditing, alarm and note-based functionality. We also provide a service level agreement (SLA), so you can be confident all the necessary data is available wherever and whenever you need it.

Benefits

  • Easy to use: Our cloud application displays all of your critical data in real-time and is accessible anywhere.
  • Faster decision-making: Tailings Insight – Cloud supports quicker decision-making, helping you proactively manage your TSFs and reduce safety risks.
  • Enhanced data management: Reduce the challenges of combining data from multiple platforms and TSFs from across the globe.
  • Build transparency: Make sure your data is accessible to your choice of personnel, regulators, auditors and insurers.
  • Meet regulatory compliance: Our solution has been developed to surpass upcoming tailings monitoring standards, helping to improve company’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG).

Features

  • Fully customisable: Our solution includes a fully customisable interface that helps you prioritise your most important data.
  • Automated data management: Enhance governance by automating data management, including automated aggregation, decoding and secure storage.
  • Alarm monitoring: Avert disaster with our customisable alarm trigger states and automatic alerting.
  • Interoperability: Our solution is interoperable with APIs, platforms and a variety of existing connectivity types.
  • Data logging and journaling: View all historical data in one place and add your own data entries, as well as annotate entries for future audits.

Tailings Monitoring- Cloud

Tailings Insight – Cloud is a software-as-a-service application that gives you the tools to view all your tailings data in one place. By compiling data from multiple sources into a single dashboard, you can better manage and monitor your portfolio of TSFs from anywhere in the world. 

The application easily integrates with existing on-site sensors and connectivity networks to enable real-time monitoring. It also supports historical data input for comparative analysis. With a fully customizable interface, multiple sensor map views, custom alarm monitoring, data logging, journaling functionality, sensor health reporting, and easy data export, Tailings Insight – Cloud provides a comprehensive set of features for efficient, safe and sustainable tailings monitoring.

Connectivity services

Tailings Insight – Cloud is compatible with a wide range of sensors and has been enhanced to process nearly all IoT data types, making it easy to integrate with your existing connectivity networks. Once in place, the single cloud dashboard is fully customizable and can be tailored to the needs of your organization or individual teams. Your data can be made available to operators, auditors, and regulators, helping you become more transparent and more readily meet regulatory requirements.

Benefits

  • Faster decision-making: With Tailings Insight – Cloud, you can proactively manage your TSFs and ensure you have the tools to make more informed, quicker decisions.
  • Enhanced data management: Reduce the challenges of combining data from multiple platforms and TSFs from across the world.
  • Higher transparency: Data is accessible to your choice of personnel, regulators, auditors, and insurers.
  • Regulatory compliance: Our solution has been developed to surpass upcoming tailings monitoring standards, improving company’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance.
  • Simple relationship: Work with a single global provider — one with over 40 years of experience in safety services – for tailings monitoring on all your sites. 

Features

  • Feature-rich application: Gain access to our industry-leading and feature-rich application, enabling you to see all tailings data in one place and in real time.
  • Ultra-reliable connectivity: Our solution operates over Viasat’s L-band network, ensuring 99.9% network availability, and LoRaWAN edge connectivity.
  • Security: Our networks and data management practices are secure and exceed industry guidelines.
  • Service level tiers: Tailor your solution to your individual requirements with our tiered approach to SLAs.
  • Reliable backup: In the event of damage to on-site electricity or connectivity networks, our standalone infrastructure ensures that you never lose sight of your TSFs.

Related services and solutions

Our portfolio of connectivity services and solutions offer unrivalled levels of choice, mobility and reliability. Whether you’re looking to share large quantities of data quickly or connect your IoT projects in remote regions, we’ve got you covered.