Metals, Mining & Minerals
Vision Copilot for Mining and Metals
Map cameras to the places your team manages and ask Vision Copilot about remote work-zone review and heavy-equipment interfaces. OrionAlerts analyses scenes over time to surface alerts, recommendations and operational scores that help you decide what to review today and what to improve next.
Illustrative photograph — not a verified customer deployment
Prioritise the places where people and heavy equipment meet.
Mines and mineral-processing operations span large areas with uneven coverage and demanding conditions. A control room may need to distinguish routine movement from an event that requires field verification. The most useful camera pilot concentrates on stable, clearly defined locations rather than promising complete surveillance of an entire mine. Vehicle interaction is a recognised mine-safety concern.
A reference deployment concentrates on stable, high-value locations such as a crusher approach, equipment interface or transfer zone, usually connected by wireless links given the distances involved. Retention should match the window a safety investigation typically needs, with vehicle-interaction and access alerts routed to the control room and HSE. Where a fleet-management system is in use, align review timestamps with its vehicle-proximity records instead of treating video as the only source of truth for a pedestrian-vehicle event.
Ask your building what needs attention. OrionAlerts maps cameras to your sites, buildings, floors, zones and rooms, analyses scenes over time, and brings the results into Vision Copilot. Search in everyday language, review alerts and recommendations, and use operational scores to guide daily decisions and improvement priorities.
Building intelligence
Your operation, mapped
Organise views around the places the team recognises. Select the location to establish the context for scene observations and Copilot questions. This example uses the shared hierarchy; map the actual site rather than inventing rooms or camera coverage.
See your operation in the structure your team uses. Organise sites, buildings, floors, zones and rooms, then map cameras to their locations. A question about reception, a loading bay or a production area starts with a recognisable place and its available camera context.
Site
Mine Site
Building
Processing Facility
Floor
Operating Level
Zone
Transfer Zone
Room
Station
Cameras are mapped to the selected crusher approach or equipment interface so questions about the crusher approach start from recognisable operational context.
Vision Copilot
Ask Vision Copilot
Ask what happened. Find where it happened. Decide what to review next. Vision Copilot lets you type questions and search available visual observations in everyday language. Use the mapped location and a relevant period to focus the conversation on the operation you manage.
Illustrative example
Question
Find observations from the crusher approach during the last shift.
Five ways teams use this
Use cases for your operation
Bring the right location into the decision
Connect remote work-zone review and heavy-equipment interfaces to the building tree and its mapped cameras. The team can start with a named operational area instead of trying to remember which camera covers it, making observations easier to interpret and discuss.
Search visual observations in everyday language
Ask Vision Copilot, “Find observations from the crusher approach during the last shift.” Use the location and review period to focus the search on relevant available observations. The purpose is to reach useful context without manually working through unrelated camera views.
Identify recurring conditions across scenes
Ask, “Which covered equipment interfaces had repeated access observations?” Ongoing scene analysis supports review of patterns across the available observations. Use the recurring condition to frame the next investigation rather than treating one isolated alert as the whole operational picture.
Turn analysis into an improvement decision
Ask, “What should the mine supervisor inspect before the next operating period?” Review the recommendation alongside the underlying observations and the team's operating knowledge. The example below shows a practical next step; it is a suggested action for human consideration, not an automatic instruction to change equipment or procedures.
Use scores to structure the next review
Use 0–100 scores to organise attention across covered processing areas and review periods, without claiming a whole-mine safety rating. Review the contributing observations and coverage before acting. The proposed dimensions for this industry are Equipment-Interface Practices, Processing-Area Flow and Restricted-Zone Control; use the approved product methodology when demonstrating actual values.
Illustrative decision story
From scenes to decisions
Illustrative decision story — not a customer result. Observe: Repeated person-entry observations occur near a controlled equipment approach. Ask: “What should the mine supervisor inspect before the next operating period?” Suggested recommendation: Review the boundary marking, approved route and camera view with the mine supervisor; retain the mine's existing safety controls. Decide: The responsible team reviews the evidence and agrees an action. Follow up: Revisit the same area and comparable period to assess observations, coverage and score movement. A subsequent change is not proof of causation.
Cameras are mapped to the places your teams manage. Ongoing scene analysis brings observations and alerts into that location context. Use Vision Copilot to ask what happened and what needs attention, review recommendations, and decide on the next action. Return to the same scope and a comparable period to assess the observations and scores after a change.
Observed
Repeated person-entry observations occur near a controlled equipment approach.
Recommendation
Review the boundary marking, approved route and camera view with the mine supervisor; retain the mine's existing safety controls.
Follow up
Revisit the same area and comparable period to assess observations, coverage and score movement.
Operational scores
See what needs attention—and what changes after action.
Bring remote work-zone review and heavy-equipment interfaces into a structured review with operational scores out of 100. Use the score alongside the location, period and contributing observations to decide where to focus. Compare covered processing areas and review periods only when the assessment basis is consistent; never claim a whole-mine safety rating.
Proposed score names and formulas are design recommendations. Demonstrate only approved product values or clearly labelled illustrative states. If no valid opportunities exist, show Not assessed — never invent a flattering percentage.
Visible practices
Equipment-Interface Practices
Not assessed
Proposed dimension · proposal-3.2
A specified visible practice at an observable equipment interface meets the agreed criterion during the review period.
Flow
Processing-Area Flow
Not assessed
Proposed dimension · proposal-3.2
A sampled visible obstruction or accumulation at a defined conveyor or chute view stays within the agreed operational threshold.
Access practices
Restricted-Zone Control
Not assessed
Proposed dimension · proposal-3.2
Reviewed entry into a configured processing or equipment zone follows the agreed schedule or access rule for the operating period.
Score presentation context
- Period
- Comparable operating period
- Scope
- Selected processing areas with mapped cameras
- Coverage
- Monitoring Coverage shown separately when assessment windows are defined
- Evaluated checks
- Not assessed — awaiting approved product dataset
Deployment
Start with the cameras, conditions and decisions that matter.
A useful deployment starts with a defined problem. Review camera coverage, operating hours, lighting, network capacity and who will respond to an alert. Select a small set of observable events, agree how to assess them and expand after the pilot demonstrates useful results. Separate surface mines, underground workings and metals-processing plants in the assessment. Define network and power constraints, camera stand-off distances and environmental limits. Verify the exact hardware approval needed for the proposed mine installation.
- Mapped hierarchy for pilot processing stations and equipment interfaces
- Agreed response owners for restricted-zone and field-verification events
- Network, power and environmental limits for selected remote camera views
- Hardware-approval check for the proposed mine installation environment
- Wireless-link capacity planning for cameras at distance from the core network, verified before committing to full-site coverage
Standards boundary
Standards and procurement considerations
DGMS maintains approval requirements for specified mining equipment. Applicability depends on the equipment and mine environment; an ordinary surveillance device must not be described as mine-approved without evidence.
DGMS equipment approvals
Applicability depends on the equipment and mine environment. An ordinary surveillance device must not be described as mine-approved without evidence.
Authoritative source
How to evaluate a pilot
What to measure in a pilot
Pilot results depend on scene conditions and event definitions. Compare reviewed alerts with representative ground-truth observations, including missed events. Track nuisance alerts and response times before setting a wider rollout target. The measures shown here are evaluation criteria, not guaranteed improvements.
Verified restricted-zone alerts
Confirmed relevant restricted-zone entries divided by reviewed alerts for the defined equipment or processing zones, using an agreed review rubric.
Source of truth: Access/work records and supervisor review log
Remote-view unavailable hours
Hours when an expected remote camera or recording source was unavailable or not usable for the agreed assessment task during the pilot window.
Source of truth: Device logs and surveillance health records
Time from reviewed event to field-team acknowledgement
Time from a reviewed observation being presented to acknowledgement by the assigned field or control-room owner, using an agreed review log.
Source of truth: Control-room records and field acknowledgement log
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Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Can the same camera be used underground?
Suitability depends on the environment and required approvals. Check the exact model, installation and operating conditions before deployment.
Can video confirm a blast zone is safe?
No. Blast clearance and re-entry remain controlled safety procedures; camera coverage can be incomplete.
Can analytics work during network outages?
Confirm the proposed architecture's actual local processing, storage and recovery behaviour. Do not assume edge operation or buffered alerts without testing.
What is Vision Copilot?
Vision Copilot is OrionAlerts' conversational interface for asking questions and searching available visual observations. It uses the mapped operational context to help teams review what needs attention and consider relevant next steps.
Why map cameras to a building tree?
A camera becomes more useful when its view is connected to a place the team recognises. The hierarchy connects sites, buildings, floors, zones and rooms with their cameras, giving searches and operational reviews a consistent location context.
What do scores out of 100 mean?
Scores help organise review of observed conditions. Read each score with its stated assessment basis, location, period and supporting observations. A score is not a certificate of safety or compliance, and missing observations do not prove that conditions are satisfactory.
Can recommendations guide property improvements?
Recommendations can help your team identify issues to inspect and changes to assess, such as staging arrangements, access practices or camera coverage. Review the evidence and operational constraints before deciding on a change; outcomes are not guaranteed.
Can we use our existing CCTV cameras?
Compatible IP camera streams may be reused after a technical assessment. Camera position, image quality, supported stream formats, network access and available compute determine which use cases are practical. Confirm the selected cameras and deployment architecture before rollout.
How should video access and retention be planned?
Define the purpose of monitoring, authorised users, retention period and incident-review process before deployment. Discuss the required access, storage and privacy controls during the assessment and verify what the selected configuration supports. Apply your organisation's policies and the requirements relevant to your location and people being recorded.
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Ask Vision Copilot about your mining and metals.
See how Vision Copilot connects a mapped area with visual search, recommendations and scores for mining and metals.
