Aptella’ Darwin team moves to new premises to better serve customers in the Northern Territory

New Berrimah office provides laser level calibrations, repairs, sales, rental and training services across the range of Topcon surveying and machine control solutions. Intelligent positioning solutions provider Aptella has a new office for the company’s Darwin team. The new Berrimah premises offers a full range of services to support customers in the construction, geospatial and mining sectors with laser levels, GPS, survey instruments and machine control technology. “We look forward to welcoming customers at our new premises at 29 Miles Road, Berrimah, and helping them with their technology needs or equipment services,” said Bradd Thexton, Field and Support Manager for the Northern Territory at Aptella. “If your laser level is due for a calibration, drop into the new

Monitoring wall stability in open pit mining

In a large Australian coal mine, a significant crack developed in one of the main walls of the pit. Finding a robust platform that could reliably measure any deviation in the wall and alert management immediately was critical to mitigate safety and production risk. Traditional optical monitoring techniques utilising a total station could be used in these scenarios. Although accurate, the manual operation of such an instrument would not generate the frequency of data required and increase the level of risk by requiring its manual operation. An autonomous optical solution would mitigate this but with a greater footprint of infrastructure and cost. Wireless, autonomous monitoring  In this scenario, the Senceive wireless monitoring solution was established on site to