Automation using the internet of things (IoT) is changing the way the world works, but for those who work in regional Australia, connecting to the internet is a challenge because three quarters of Australia doesnt have internet coverage. To overcome this difficulty, mining and agriculture in Australia invest heavily in remote area communications. Last year spending more than $1.7 billion in telemetry hardware alone (PwC, 2018). Most of this investment was made by just a handful of the biggest businesses, such as Rio Tinto, FMGL and BHP, who are now seeing significant productivity gains in terms of reduced operating costs and improved safety as a result. These businesses overcome the communications challenge by installing fixed communications infrastructure around their mines, such as UHF radio. *This is an abstract only. No full paper was prepared for this abstract.*
CITATION: Scott, D, 2019. A flexible global telemetry and IoT solution that enables instant custom remote monitoring and automation anywhere, in Proceedings Future Mining 2019, p 144 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).