Vogt, DBrink, AVZStewart, RDonovan, SJHaarhoff, J2008-12-042008-12-042008-10Vogt, D, Brink, AVZ and Stewart, R. 2008. AziSA: improving mining decisions with real time data. International Platinum conference: platinum in Transformation. Sun City, South Africa, 6-9 October 2008, pp 231-2389781920211196http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2655This paper was first presented at the 3rd International Platinum conference: platinum in Transformation, organised by SAIMM (Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy)South African underground hard rock mines are typically managed using measurements made daily, weekly or even monthly of key parameters face advance, readiness to blast, blast success, temperature or dust levels. Health, safety and productivity can all be greatly improved if a realtime measurement system can inform decision making. To enable this vision of widespread sensing, communication and decision support, CSIR has developed an open standard architecture for communication of sensor data, and a reference implementation using that standard. The standard, called AziSA, meaning 'to inform' in isiZulu, will allow any device that complies with it to join any network that supports it. The standard is designed for South African gold and platinum mines. In this paper the design is discussed, and a future application for a platinum mine is consideredenReal time dataAziSAUnderground miningConference PresentationVogt, D., Brink, A., Stewart, R., Donovan, S., & Haarhoff, J. (2008). AziSA: improving mining decisions with real time data. 3rd International Platinum conference: platinum in Transformation. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2655Vogt, D, AVZ Brink, R Stewart, SJ Donovan, and J Haarhoff. "AziSA: improving mining decisions with real time data." (2008): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2655Vogt D, Brink A, Stewart R, Donovan S, Haarhoff J, AziSA: improving mining decisions with real time data; 3rd International Platinum conference: platinum in Transformation; 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2655 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Vogt, D AU - Brink, AVZ AU - Stewart, R AU - Donovan, SJ AU - Haarhoff, J AB - South African underground hard rock mines are typically managed using measurements made daily, weekly or even monthly of key parameters face advance, readiness to blast, blast success, temperature or dust levels. Health, safety and productivity can all be greatly improved if a realtime measurement system can inform decision making. To enable this vision of widespread sensing, communication and decision support, CSIR has developed an open standard architecture for communication of sensor data, and a reference implementation using that standard. The standard, called AziSA, meaning 'to inform' in isiZulu, will allow any device that complies with it to join any network that supports it. The standard is designed for South African gold and platinum mines. In this paper the design is discussed, and a future application for a platinum mine is considered DA - 2008-10 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Real time data KW - AziSA KW - Underground mining LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2008 SM - 9781920211196 T1 - AziSA: improving mining decisions with real time data TI - AziSA: improving mining decisions with real time data UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2655 ER -