On a mine, "we didn't know" is the most expensive sentence there is.

Compliance with the Mine Health and Safety Act isn't optional, and neither is keeping people and machines apart. addanode delivers MHSA-aligned monitoring — trackless mobile machinery collision prevention, person location, real-time occupational hygiene and predictive asset health — so you protect your people, satisfy the inspector, and keep production moving. All on one platform, engineered for real underground and surface conditions.

Where it applies

From the working face to the processing plant.

Underground operations

Deep-level and hard-rock workings where person location, TMM collision prevention and dust/gas/heat exposure are daily life-safety and compliance concerns — on a communications backbone built for the conditions.

MHSA 16.7 person location →

Surface & open-pit

Haul roads, loading bays and intersections where vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-pedestrian collisions are the headline risk, plus dust and asset health across a heavy mobile fleet.

MHSA 8.10.1 collision prevention →

Processing & plant

Mills, crushers, conveyors, pumps and fans whose unplanned failure halts a shift — caught early with predictive condition monitoring instead of run-to-failure.

Predictive maintenance →

Mine water & environment

Dewatering, process water, tailings return and discharge quality — monitored continuously and reported against your water-use licence.

Water management →
What we monitor

Safety, compliance and uptime — on one platform.

Collision prevention
MHSA 8.10.1

TMM proximity detection and EMESRT Level 9 intervention — detect, warn, and slow/brake the machine — with every event logged for compliance.

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Person location
MHSA 16.7

Intrinsically safe tags and readers give last-known-location and movement history, so you can account for people and direct rescue fast.

Learn more →

Occupational hygiene

Real-time dust (silica/coal), gas (CO, CH₄, NO₂), diesel particulate (DPM), noise and heat — with alerts before a limit is breached and the records the regulator expects.

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Predictive asset health

Vibration, temperature and current on mills, pumps, fans, conveyors and winders — catch failures weeks before they stop a shift.

Mine water & environment

Dewatering, process and discharge water quality and volume, with DWS-aligned compliance reporting.

Underground connectivity

A communications backbone suited to your workings — leaky feeder, fibre or mesh — with edge buffering so data survives outages.

Where it pays back

The mining projects we're asked for most.

Meet 8.10.1 collision prevention

Specify to the EMESRT Level 9 detect–warn–intervene standard, choose detection proven for your environment, and produce the compliance evidence the inspectorate wants.

The collision-prevention guide →

Close the 16.7 person-location gap

Move from "paper certainty" to location certainty with intrinsically safe last-known-location, so seconds count for you in an emergency.

The person-location guide →

See exposures as they happen

Replace periodic spot samples with continuous dust, gas, DPM, noise and heat monitoring — protecting workers and building a defensible record.

Occupational hygiene monitoring →

Cut unplanned downtime

Move critical mills, pumps and conveyors from reactive to predictive maintenance — where one avoided stop pays for the monitoring many times over.

Predictive maintenance →
How it works

One safety picture, not three silos.

1 · Sense

Proximity detection, intrinsically safe tags, environmental sensors and machine sensors — rated for dust, heat and explosive atmospheres where required.

2 · Connect & buffer

An underground/surface backbone carries data to surface; edge devices buffer locally so an outage never loses the record.

3 · One control-room view

Collision, person location, hygiene and asset health in one dashboard — with the instant "where was this person last seen" an emergency needs.

4 · Log, report, act

Every detection, intervention and exposure event is logged and reportable — compliance evidence and risk hotspots in one place.

It runs on the in-house addaNet platform, integrating with existing SCADA, fleet-management and reporting systems via standard protocols — so safety, hygiene and asset data share one backbone and one record.

Why addanode for mining in South Africa

MHSA-aligned, locally supported, built for the conditions.

The detail matters underground: detection proven for dust, curves and reflective metal — not a clean-haul-road demo; intrinsic-safety certification where the atmosphere demands it; collision systems that intervene (EMESRT Level 9), not just beep; and edge buffering so a power dip never erases a safety record. Because we build both the hardware and the software in-house and support it locally, your safety-critical systems get fast local support — not a vendor a continent away.

Regulatory references are provided for orientation; always confirm current requirements against the latest Mine Health and Safety Act, its regulations and your appointed legal and safety advisers.

Frequently asked

Mining questions we answer.

Most mining enquiries start with a compliance requirement and end with the realisation that the same platform also protects uptime.

We deploy proximity detection on trackless mobile machinery that warns operators and pedestrians and can trigger automatic intervention — slowing and braking the machine — to the EMESRT Level 9 standard, with every event logged for your compliance record. See our collision-prevention compliance guide.
Yes. Intrinsically safe person-location tags and readers give a last-known-location and movement history, so in an emergency you can account for people and direct rescue quickly. See the person-location guide.
No — it supports them. Continuous monitoring of dust, gas, DPM, noise and heat gives real-time alerts and an unbroken record between manual surveys, so exposures are caught as they happen. Your hygienist still sets the strategy and signs off compliance. More in our occupational-hygiene guide.
For underground TMM the standard is EMESRT Level 9 — the machine must be able to intervene (slow and brake), not just warn. A system that stops at alarms and lights does not meet the intervention requirement. Always confirm the intervention capability before buying.
Yes. It runs on addaNet and integrates with existing SCADA, fleet-management and reporting systems via standard protocols, so safety, hygiene and asset data sit in one picture and one set of compliance records.
Yes. The same platform carries predictive condition monitoring on mills, pumps, fans and conveyors, so you cut unplanned downtime alongside meeting your safety obligations — the compliance case and the uptime case fund each other.
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Tell us your compliance gap or safety priority — collision prevention, person location, hygiene or asset health. We'll scope an MHSA-aligned solution that also earns its keep on uptime.