Mining & Mineral Processing
Air-gapped equipment health monitoring for remote mine sites and processing plants. Ore grades, production tonnage, and equipment performance data stay within the site security perimeter. No external connectivity required.
The Challenge
Mine sites are often remote, with limited or expensive connectivity. Equipment health monitoring — conveyor vibration, crusher temperature, haul truck engine data, and mill power draw — is critical for avoiding unplanned downtime. Ore grade data and production targets are commercially sensitive: a competitor or counterparty knowing your extraction rates has real financial implications.
How BunkerM Fits In
BunkerM Enterprise runs on a ruggedised local server in the mine's secure control room, with zero dependency on external connectivity. Rockwell ControlLogix controllers at crusher stations and conveyor drives publish Sparkplug B metrics via FactoryTalk Edge. The maintenance engineering team queries vibration RMS, bearing temperatures, motor current, and fault codes in plain English via the AI chat interface. Device offline events trigger Telegram alerts to the on-call engineer.
A Typical Deployment
A copper mine deploys BunkerM Enterprise across three process areas: primary crushing, conveying, and flotation. Rockwell ControlLogix and Siemens ET 200MP units publish Sparkplug B metrics. The control room server runs BunkerM Enterprise with no internet connection. AI queries and responses stay entirely local. Ore feed rates, grade targets, and recovery percentages — commercially sensitive IP — never leave the site.
Privacy & Compliance
🔒 Commercially sensitive data stays on-site. Production tonnage, ore grades, and extraction costs are proprietary. BunkerM Enterprise operates with no external connectivity requirement. The fully air-gapped deployment option uses a local LLM via LM Studio for AI functionality, with no data leaving the site under any circumstances.