Minematics builds Mineoptic, a purpose-built mining intelligence platform that captures what clipboards miss and what generic GPS systems cannot. Granular, reliable, real-time visibility into your operations, without the cost and complexity of enterprise FMS.
Production, dispatch, fuel, loading — the data that drives a mine’s profitability is still largely captured on paper, in dusty cabins, by staff juggling pens that will not write and watches that do not agree. And where GPS trackers have been added, they deliver raw positional data that someone still has to interpret, reconcile, and trust.
The result is the same whether the mine is modern or traditional: decisions get made at the end of the shift, based on data nobody is fully sure of.
Logging varies across people, shifts, and times of day — the same event gets recorded three different ways.
The time an event happens and the time it gets written down rarely match; watches drift, pens fail, cards get lost between hops.
Paper cards travel through multiple hands before reconciliation — one missing slip can distort the shift report.
Manual summarisation introduces its own errors, and the staff doing it are doing mundane, unrewarding work.
Reconciliation across sections (pit, weighbridge, dispatch, fuel) rarely lines up, so the whole dataset becomes non-reliable.
What gets captured is surface-level — total trips, total tonnage — with no view into queueing, bucket counts, cycle breakup, or bottlenecks.
GPS trackers show where a truck is, not why it is waiting, how many buckets it took to fill, or which excavator is starving its fleet.
Generic GPS devices rely on third-party GSM towers and store data offline during dead zones, so stationary assets like excavators and weighbridges report late, destroying time-sync across the mine.
Dealer-driven tracking solutions give managers raw feeds to interpret themselves. The cognitive burden pushes them back to their old paper registers.
Every mining operation — surface or underground, coal or metal, captive or commercial — needs these things from its data. Mineoptic is designed around them.
Mines do not choose where the network reaches. Deep pits, underground drives, remote dumps — the signal drops where the action happens. Offline capture, deferred sync with timestamps that do not lie.
Decisions are only as relevant as the data is accurate. We do not rely on accuracy under standard circumstances; we build alternate mechanisms to obtain the data essential for decisions.
The difference between “trip logged” and “five buckets, 3m 40s per bucket, 2m 10s queue at crusher” is the difference between a report and a decision. Mineoptic captures the cycle.
A system only works if the people on the ground actually use it. Simple workflows, familiar interfaces, dashboards that answer questions instead of raising new ones.
Between the enterprise Fleet Management Systems that only the largest mines can justify, and the commodity trackers that capture too little to drive decisions, there is a gap. That gap is where most mines actually operate, and it is where Mineoptic is built to sit.
| Capability | GPS / RFID / CCTV | Mineoptic | Enterprise FMS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asset position | Yes, positional only | Yes, plus asset relationships | Yes, deeply integrated |
| Cycle granularity (buckets, queue, load time) | No | Yes, via visual analytics | Yes, via OEM integration |
| Works in low / no network zones | Partial, late sync, no timestamps | Yes, sync with preserved timestamps | Yes, private mine network |
| Interpreted for operations | No, raw data | Yes, operations-ready | Yes, operations-ready |
| Implementation cost & time | Low cost, low value | Moderate cost, high value | High cost, long deployment |
| Data sovereignty | Vendor-hosted, dealer-driven | Mine-owned database option | Mine-owned, vendor-managed |
Capture what matters, close the gaps, and put intelligence in front of the people making decisions. Explore each solution in detail.
Replaces the most error-prone paper workflows — fuel logging and production counting — with a mobile app and visual analytics. Two modules: Mineoptic Fuel and Mineoptic Visual that enable digital logging even in low/no network zones.
Explore Mineoptic Lite
Everything in Lite, plus near-live fleet tracking built for the mine. Know whether each tipper is running empty, loaded, or parked, and determine productive hours, identify queue and road bottlenecks, even where the public network drops.
Explore Mineoptic Plus
A self-service BI canvas purpose-built for mines. Connect Excel, SQL, your ERP, your data server, compose the digital twin of your operations on your own database. Analyze bottlenecks, simulate operations, get competitive.
Explore Mineoptic CanvasFrom global OEMs to leading mining contractors and operators, our clients rely on Mineoptic to run sharper shifts.
Every module, field, and report comes from a problem we have watched play out in a pit or on a haul road.
Connectivity, Accuracy, Granularity, Adoptability — each product is measured against all four.
We assume the network will fail and the phone will sync later; our data model handles it gracefully, with timestamps that hold up.
The dashboard is the answer, not a stack of raw feeds to interpret.
With Mineoptic Canvas, sensitive production data can stay inside your own infrastructure or on cloud — your choice.
Between commodity trackers and enterprise FMS, with value that justifies the step up.
