Environmental Monitoring Critical for Mining Operations

“Most mines can be environmentally challenging to work in. Dust, moisture, water run-off, and outdoor exposure to sunlight, wind and rain can have an impact on the equipment, operators, and the community living nearby.”

Environmental monitoring is critical for mining operations according to a recent article about technology advances in the mining industry.*

The author specifically mentions the Orion Weather Station from Columbia Weather Systems, citing “a number of examples that need to be monitored on an ongoing basis… [with] the ability to pull data from a number of different monitoring or weather stations that have been employed around mine sites.

For example, the Orion Weather Station with the MicroServer will allow interface via SNMP over the Ethernet network to obtain the following data:

➡️ Temperature
➡️ Relative humidity
➡️ Digital barometer
➡️ Ultrasonic wind direction & speed
➡️ Impact rain

“These weather stations can be positioned at different points around the mine site and can then feed data back over the wireless WAN.”

The monitoring software "can be configured to include threshold environmental levels, so as you approach or surpass these levels, [the software] can be configured to alert you.”

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves!

Be alerted to dangerous weather conditions. Improve the safety and efficiency of your operations. Spec the weather monitoring solution that is right for your application.

Email info@columbiaweather.com. Or give us a call at 503-629-0887.

At Columbia Weather Systems, we make weather monitoring easy, so you can do your job better.

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*Ross, Aaron. (2022, March 03). “390 Tonnes of Network Monitoring: Remote Mining Operations.” Paessler.