Opto promotes remote monitoring technology in mining industry

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[Abstract] Opto is a remote monitoring solution provider, and is currently preparing to promote its technology in the mining industry. The mining industry, like other industrial enterprises, needs weighing platforms and wireless communication equipment.

Opto Africa was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Randburg. From the beginning, the company positioned itself as a remote monitoring solution provider. At present, the company has gained rich experience in many fields. Dean Richter, the company's marketing and sales manager, told the Mining Weekly reporter that although it is difficult for the company's business to enter the mining industry , our company's control equipment is particularly suitable for the mining industry. He said that the mining industry, like other industrial enterprises, needs weighing platforms and wireless communication equipment. The above equipment installed by the company in Pikit-up, the largest waste treatment project in Africa, can also be successfully adopted in the mining industry.

Opto has installed similar equipment at Assmang Chrome, Scaw Metals and Ekhuruleni Waste Management. Richter explained that Pikitup collects waste from 12 landfills and the company's waste transport fleet has 450 waste trucks that travel back and forth between the service objects. There are also five landfills, an incinerator and 51 landscaping waste collection points in Johannesburg. The early waste management company had only weighing platforms and the dispatch and management of vehicles was completely done manually. Pikitup project management required automated management of vehicles to reduce human errors, so that vehicles can quickly enter the landfill, unload waste and fill in the list, pay fees and collect invoices at the exit of the landfill, and allow the company's waste transport vehicles to enter and exit freely. Therefore, Pikitup project needs a solution that can accurately record the amount and type of waste unloaded at the landfill, as well as the source of the waste.

Wavetrend's active RFID tags and reader technology and Opto's wireless communication equipment and services won the bid for the Pikitup project procurement plan. Wavetrend's L-TG series active tags are strong and reliable, with an effective working distance of 8 meters, which is very suitable for garbage truck operation management in landfills. Wavetrend's L-RX201 RFID tag reader can record the entry and exit of 100 garbage trucks operating in the landfill, as long as the company's RFID active tags are attached to the body.

Information collected by RFID, such as vehicle number, driver, weight of materials loaded and unloaded, date and time, and type of waste loaded, is all entered into the database. The empty weight of the vehicle is recorded when the vehicle leaves the landfill and is also entered into the central database. The wireless transmission device eBox manufactured locally by Opto is a sophisticated and intelligent communication device used to transmit data to the central database. Richter explained that the eBox is used to collect all RFID-collected data, such as the delivery list and billing information of the garbage vehicle, and then transmit it to Opto's main computer room via the GPRS wireless data network.

Once the data is stored, production reports can be printed and customers can log on to the website to access information. "These reports are written in Java interactive language, and management can filter, sort, rearrange the data and print more detailed reports as needed. Users can complete these tasks by browsing the website, accepting passwords and logging on securely." Opto has installed active RFID in the eBox system, which has an internal battery and sends out an identification pulse every 1.5 seconds, with an effective identification range of 8-20 meters. Richter said that now management can know the real situation at any time and can better control the operation. Opto claims that its eBox is one of the first devices to realize mobile data collection. This device has been on the market since mid-2004. The company recently won an innovation award for its bid in the Pikitup project. The company is also the exclusive distributor of Sena's series of wireless and IP devices in South Korea and a supplier of solutions for the Opto 22 PLC series.

Source: Shengying RF Network