Insights from the mine face
Proximity detection, collision avoidance, fatigue management and connected-mine technology — explained by the engineers building it.
Engineering the Answer When There's No Off-the-Shelf Fix
When a public road cut through an active mine site, MPI engineered custom boom gates that sense approaching haul trucks and lock the crossing down. The same problem-first approach now connects fatigue detection straight to the PDS so a control room can stop a truck in real time, and bridges surface and underground proximity systems that used to go blind at the handover point. MPI starts with the client's actual problem, then builds the technology around it.
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Blind Spots Don't Have to Be Fatal
Big machines have blind spots that leave pedestrians invisible to the operator, and proximity detection fills that gap by warning both sides early. South Africa's Regulation 8.10 requires machines to detect, warn, and brake automatically, and MPI's Level 9 delivers this without hurting production. Since the push began, machinery fatalities dropped 67% in a single year, the safest the sector's ever had.
The Cost of Unnecessary Stops
Most Level 9 systems can't tell normal mine activity from real risk, and unnecessary truck stops add up to R456 million a year in lost production. MPI's system reads speed, heading, machine profile and zone context together, using load mode, dump mode and hard-park geofencing to skip false stops. It warns first and only stops when the data confirms a real risk, so operators trust it and your fleet keeps moving.
Rethinking Level 9 Intervention
False alarms don't just cost production, they teach operators to tune out warnings, which is more dangerous than the risks you're trying to catch. MPI's Level 9 system tackles this by combining GNSS, RTLS and TTR intelligence to judge real risk instead of just flagging proximity. The goal isn't more interventions, it's fewer incidents.