Case Study: From Smart Sumps to Smarter Mines

How Surety Automation modernized underground systems with digital communications and edge intelligence

For underground mines, water control is everything. Trapped water can create real drowning and electrocution hazards for mine personnel, which means the sump pumps used to control water levels are extra critical.

When a gold producer in northern Nevada approached IoT-Certified OptoPartner Surety Automation to upgrade its sump controls, it was going to be a challenge to transform the existing manual, disconnected systems. Surety's goal wasn't just to make the sumps remotely controlled with the typical large and expensive hardware—they wanted to give mine operators visibility and control over the entire underground health of the mine.

Download the case study to find out how Surety Automation was able to take a rudimentary pump upgrade to a fully connected mine application by building smaller, cost-effective, smarter systems that do more with less.