Maestro CEO, president and co-founder Michael Gribbons said that combining its Vigilante AQS and Zephyr AQS air quality monitoring stations along with MaestroFlex automated regulators within Ventsim, that system can easily be configured to manage ventilation rates by reducing any project's complexity and integration time.

Howden's Craig Stewart, who is the founder of Ventsim, and Gribbons explained that Ventsim Control continuously optimises and redirects airflow in any application using real-time data, providing peak efficiency and safety in all activity levels at all mine's headings - even if production priorities change.

Additionally, the Ventsim system can communicate with all of the mine's other instrumentation infrastructure and hardware.

"Expanding Ventsim Control's capabilities to incorporate Maestro's advanced solutions and plug-and-play ventilation devices is an exciting and logical next step," Stewart pointed out.

"The integration will now make it easier than ever for mines to enjoy the safety and security of mine-wide atmospheric monitoring, together with advanced and intelligent ventilation automation to improve safety and productivity and reduce costs."

Working in collaboration with the industry, Maestro developed the Vigilante AQS air quality station to measure environmental conditions in real-time for worker health and safety and also to reduce total installed infrastructure costs.

Thanks to the success of that product, it was able to go on to develop the Zephyr AQS air quality monitoring station for underground mines. In fact, the latter product now completes internally with what it calls its gold standard, Vigilante AQS.

"VentSim CONTROL can continue to enhance the customer experience to automate and optimise their mining ventilation to improve mine production, worker safety and significantly reduce a mine's overall energy consumption," Stewart said.

Gribbons added: "Maestro is known for its Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices used for ventilation monitoring and controls as well as last-mile digital networks for the underground mining sector. Integrating our ventilation solutions into Ventsim Control is one more way we can create a seamless user interface for customers."