Mine deformation monitoring systems monitor structures like tailings dams, open cut walls, and fixed plant for deformation including cracks, slippage, or any other movement outside of set tolerance parameters. These automated systems are more efficient, accurate, and thorough than labour-intensive traditional systems that rely on more manual processes and are harder to scale. Automated mine monitoring technology picks up deformations in mine structures by tracking movement, temperature, vibration and more. The data is sent wirelessly to the office for review by managers, surveyors and other key stakeholders, where they can analyse changes over time or get immediate alerts if there are more significant movements that require prompt attention. These systems are becoming increasingly popular following dam collapses at
Topcon Positioning Group has announced system solutions designed to support kerb and gutter paving professionals by maintaining productivity and accuracy, even when facing difficult GPS/GNSS coverage issues. Using either the GT-1200 series robotic total station or the LN-150 construction set out tool, customers can augment their existing mmGPS concrete paving solution and remedy issues such as foliage canopies, large buildings, tunnels, overpasses, and more. “Although mmGPS has become the gold standard for efficient, accurate, kerb and gutter work, situations do arise in which that solution is simply not available,” said Brian Lingobardo, Topcon business manager, concrete paving. “In such cases, temporarily turning control of the paver over to a robotic instrument will still ensure that production is maintained.”
Machine guidance is a technology that precisely tracks a machine within a mine to ensure adherence to the mine plan.  It gives machine operators and project managers data to stop over digging, under digging, and digging in the wrong location. These uses have ensured machine guidance system’s success in improving mine productivity since mine sites began using it over 20 years ago. Understanding the big picture A mine plan is essentially a business plan outlining how to get the most out of the resources of a mine. Combined with a mine design, a project timeline, and budgets, a mine plan lays out the project goals from mine construction to mine production that everyone from the project managers to
This June, Aptella has signed up to join The Dream Run to raise funds for The Smith Family to help children in need make the most out of their education. One in six Australian children live in poverty, which puts them at risk at falling behind with their learning, Aptella is raising money to support these kids so they can dream BIG and create a better future for themselves! Aptella has entered four teams this year, with team members choosing to walk or run 25km, 50km or 100km! If you’d like to donate to one of these teams and help change the lives of Australian children living in poverty please click on one of the links below: The
Jon Rasmussen, Director, AME Surveys purchased the Tiny Surveyor from Aptella for use in the rail line project the team are currently working on. This project involved setting out 200km of rail line. To lay the sleepers down they needed a mark on the ground every 3m. “It makes life easier! I personally went down and did about 2.5km for the railway line, half of that was on an arc, so marks every 3m and that would have taken at least 10 hours in the field but with the Tiny Surveyor it took 2.5 hours. There’s a definite 4-to-1 ratio there,” said Mr Rasmussen. “It also frees us up in that it means that the whole job is
Intelligent positioning solutions provider Aptella to distribute Omnidots’ innovative wireless vibration monitoring equipment throughout Australia and New Zealand. Omnidots specialises in easy to setup, autonomous, reliable vibration monitoring systems for use in infrastructure and geophysical applications. Under the agreement, Aptella has been appointed Master Distributor for the Omnidots range. “The Omnidots solution is unique in its capacity to deliver a fully automated, wireless, and integrated vibration monitoring platform that can be installed and setup in minutes,” said Andrew Jones, Monitoring Marketing Development Manager at Aptella. “The Omnidots range compliments our other deformation monitoring solutions and has already received very positive feedback from customers using it for commercial construction and infrastructure projects,” he added. Vibration monitoring equipment is important in
Rob Lyon, Registered Surveyor and Director, ARP Surveyors, an expanding start-up business focussing on cadastral surveys and engineering surveying has been using the Topcon Total Station from Aptella for the past 12 months for all his cadastral surveying purposes. Mr Lyon initially purchased this instrument due to ease of use and the quality of support provided by Aptella. “It was the simplest system I could find with the best offer in respect to support, which is especially important when it comes to the use of a new instrument and getting the job done,” said Mr Lyon. Topcon Total Station improves systems and processes  After implementing the Topcon Total Station, Mr Lyon found that he was able to
James Sharpe, Survey Manager, CPB Contractors, purchased the Tiny Surveyor GPS line marking robot from Aptella for the West Gate Tunnel Project that involves an upgrade of the existing West Gate Freeway and a new tunnel. “It’s quite a major upgrade of an existing freeway in the western suburbs of Melbourne. It involves a complete reconstruction of the freeway, it’s not just a widening, we’ll basically be rebuilding the whole freeway in stages” said Mr Sharpe. “The Tiny Surveyor will be used for all the projects moving forward. There’s always an intensive road line-marking component on all our road projects.” Why the tiny Surveyor? Another CPB Contractors Project team was already using the Tiny Surveyor so Mr Sharpe
