Smart and Safe Communication Solution for Mining
It Is All About Automation, Efficiency & Productivity
Overview
Modern mining operations face growing communication challenges across every scenario—exploration fields, open pits, underground tunnels, long haul roads, and emergency incidents. Remote terrain, extreme weather, and complex underground geometry can block signals and make fixed infrastructure costly or impractical. Crews and vehicles spread across large areas need reliable voice, low-latency location updates, and short-data exchanges so supervisors can make fast, safe decisions. At the same time, higher safety standards and pressure to control CapEx and OpEx demand systems that simply won't fail when minutes matter.
A mining communication backbone must deliver high reliability and full site coverage, guaranteed emergency communication, cost effectiveness, easy maintenance, and robust environmental adaptability. It must also be ready to evolve—supporting automation, telemetry, and remote control—without sacrificing always-on voice and location services.
As a leading provider of professional communications technologies and solutions, Hytera brings advanced technologies and a full portfolio of convergence communication products to mining. From exploration through open-pit and underground operations to transportation and emergency response, Hytera offers tailored narrowband and broadband options that boost safety, improve efficiency, and help mines transition toward intelligent, connected operations.
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Sophisticated Automation
The use of communications technology in the mining industry can be divided into three main areas: automation; in-pit mobility; and data centric analytics. Digital communication technology is widely seen as having a major role to play here in helping to simplify processes, reduce risks, cut costs and improve margins.
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Data Analytics
The basic building block for increased mining digitization is to invest a converged communications platform capable of providing broadband speeds and supporting multiple data, voice and video applications. Analysing big data connected to this platform helps managers in decision making to maximize efficiency, productivity, safety and profitability.
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Workforce Safety
Modern technologies used in the mining can actively support real-time monitoring of people, machinery, and mine conditions. Constant two-way communication systems are a necessity that allows miners, support groups and control rooms to be in continuous contact.
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Exploration Field Communication
Open-Pit Mining Communication
Underground Mining Communication
Transportation Communication
Emergency Communication
In remote exploration areas, sites are often undeveloped and spread across vast, rugged
terrain. Sparse infrastructure and scattered teams make seamless connectivity a challenge,
yet critical tasks still depend on reliable communications. Teams must synchronize
geological survey results in real time with base camp and other field crews so decisions
are made from current data. Continuous personnel tracking is essential to monitor
individual locations across large areas and ensure fast assistance when needed. And
for emergencies, instant voice links and immediate alerting are vital to coordinate
rescue or evacuation when incidents occur.
Open-pit operations span wide, multi-zone sites that include extraction faces, haul
roads, processing plants, and support yards. They demand broad, reliable coverage
with seamless handover for moving crews and vehicles, centralized command-and-control
for dispatch and safety, low-latency location updates, and solutions that are easy
to maintain under harsh environmental conditions. Cost control and flexible scalability
are also key: different pits require very different capacity and footprint.
Underground mines present unique challenges: labyrinthine tunnels and shafts make
wired infrastructures costly and inflexible, while rock formations attenuate wireless
signals. A flexible, resilient network—capable of carrying video streams, location
data, and diverse sensor information—is essential for maintaining safety, situational
awareness, and seamless operations below ground.
A seamless network along haul roads ensures truck drivers stay in constant contact
with each other, the command center, and loading depots—enabling dynamic task adjustments,
real‑time GPS tracking with location recording and playback to verify route compliance—and
supports both in‑cab mobile units and GPS-enabled radios, alongside portable handsets
for yard staff and remote dispatch consoles.
In mining operations, emergencies such as explosions, water ingress, or collapses
can cause severe damage to basic infrastructure, often rendering regular communication
networks unavailable. In these critical moments, rapid, reliable communication is
essential for coordinating rescue and ensuring worker safety.
Hytera’s narrowband field solution gives teams reliable voice, GPS location tracking,
and short-data sync via fast-deploy man-pack and pole repeaters plus rugged handhelds—so
crews stay connected, safe, and coordinated as they move.
Narrowband Voice Communication (Economical, Customizable)
Hytera narrowband voice solutions deliver dependable voice, GPS tracking, and simple
dispatching with fast deployment and low CapEx/Opex. For small and medium mines this
means a compact, cost-efficient network optimized for broad voice coverage and crew
coordination. For large operations, narrowband can be scaled as a resilient voice
layer or fallback channel—customized with repeaters, sector antennas, and targeted
coverage planning to meet the site’s geography and traffic patterns.
Broadband Communication (High-Capacity, Customizable)
The MCX broadband platform provides an LTE/5G-grade backbone for sites that need high-capacity
data, low latency, and advanced remote control. For large mines, MCX is tailored as
a full site trunking solution with centralized dispatch, video and sensor telemetry,
and automated workflows. For medium and small mines that need high-capacity data without
heavy infrastructure, the Hytera BDNode is a purpose-built broadband data node that
dynamically covers key work areas.
For basic needs, Hytera’s E-pole provides a quick, relocatable solution: auto-networking
repeaters that link together, backhaul to the remote command center via 4G/5G, and
can be moved as the mine advances. For full-coverage operations, the BDNode system
is optimized for tunnels—install fixed BDNodes every 200–300 meters with directional
antennas on straight runs and omnidirectional units at corners.
Hytera has the tailored functions and devices for mining industry, on dispatch, support
real time location update, recording location and playback, Geo-fencing and Dynamic
group, for the mobiles, support dual head for dual head transportation truck, and
foot PPT for drivers since their hands are not avilable for making calls, for radios,
they are rugged and durable, dustproof and have loud speaker.
Hytera’s DMR Ad-hoc Dual-channel Portable Repeater E-Pack200 provides a robust emergency
communication solution. This portable, power-on-and-go device can automatically form
a network without external links, enabling instant deployment in disaster zones. The
E-Pack supports flexible networking, including linking to a temporary base station
on a rescue vehicle, ensuring communication coverage where it’s needed most. Compact
and easy to carry, it can be pre-positioned at key sites so that, in the event of
a crisis, teams can establish a dedicated rescue communication network within minutes.
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Case Studies
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Catoca Diamond Mine, Angola
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Gold Mine, Kazakhstan
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Hytera DMR System Delivers Reliable Communications and Improved Safety
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Nantou Zinc Mine, Burkina Faso
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