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Project: The Void Monitor

Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration - Resources

Underground mining throughout the world creates open voids everyday allowing us to extract minerals, but there is very little safety when it comes to monitoring the void itself, and knowing how it is behaving from the inside at all times.

The Void Monitor (VM) is a live 24/7 safety monitoring device that mounts to the wall of an underground tunnel near an open void. It uses a specifically designed frame and winch system to extend a LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) scanner into the open void to monitor a cliff face from the inside out, giving a 'pair of eyes' inside areas which you cannot normally see.

The monitor has the ability to give real time alerts back to the mine control tower and personnel in the area, and can also illuminate any surrounding tunnels within a specified radius, using LED lights to establish an immediate exclusion zone until the area has been assessed and deemed safe.

Incidents, Injuries and fatalities can shut down a mine site for weeks, months or close them down entirely. In the case of some fatalities, ongoing court cases can last years. This type of incident can have, and has had, massive impacts on families, employers, employees and local communities who are involved. An application like the Void Monitor can decrease the risk of these incidents occurring.

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