We talked about technical availability as the foundation of mine productivity. If trucks and excavators are down, no dispatch logic or truck-shovel balancing can save the shift.
Telemetry is what makes that foundation manageable.
Modern mining equipment constantly generates data: oil pressure, coolant temperature, transmission vibration, engine load, brake condition, tyre pressure and many other parameters. In theory, this should give operations and maintenance teams a live view of machine health.
In practice, too often this data is stored and reviewed only after a failure. It becomes a tool for investigation, not prevention.
Real-time telemetry changes that. If a component temperature starts drifting over several shifts, if vibration patterns change, or if oil pressure behaves differently from similar machines, the team can act before the truck stops in the middle of the pit.
That means planning maintenance at the right time, preparing parts in advance, redistributing load across the fleet and avoiding emergency downtime.
The challenge is that telemetry is not a universal language. Every OEM, model and even generation of equipment can send data differently. At OES, we collect telemetry every 1-5 seconds, decode it for each vendor and model, and turn raw machine data into clear signals for the people making operational decisions.
But collecting and visualising data is only the first step. The real value starts when there is enough data for the machine to tell us what is likely to happen next.