Newcastle uni, MineSensor partner on idler monitors

Australia’s University of Newcastle and New South Wales-based mining technology firm MineSensor have jointly developed a new idler monitoring system for conveyor belts, with trials already underway at coal and iron ore sites in the Hunter Valley and the Pilbara.

On an average-sized site 20,000 data points will be collected

09 July 2020
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University of Newcastle's Professor Craig Wheeler and entrepreneur David Bull partnered on the solution, which monitors the performance and condition of idlers using remote sensors.

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