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Ventsim CONTROL Press Release

Maestro's IIoT solutions integrate into Ventsim CONTROL

Maestro Digital Mine’s ventilation IIoT solutions have been successfully integrated into Howden's Ventsim CONTROL Ventilation Optimization software, thus strengthening Maestro's mine ventilation solutions for customers around the world. Ventsim CONTROL can remotely monitor, control, and automate in real-time the total underground mine ventilation from the surface. Combined with Maestro's Vigilante AQS™ & Zephyr AQS™ air quality monitoring stations and using MaestroFlex™ automated regulators, Ventsim CONTROL can be easily configured to manage the ventilation by reducing the complexity and integration time of any project.
 
Ventsim CONTROL uses real-time data to continuously optimize and redirect airflow for peak efficiency and safety in all activity levels and headings in your mine as production priorities shift. Ventsim CONTROL communicates with all hardware and instrumentation mine infrastructure.
 
“Expanding Ventsim Control’s capabilities to incorporate Maestro’s advanced solutions and plug and play ventilation devices is an exciting and logical next step. 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. Maestro's core values align with Howden’s in striving for excellence in safety, productivity, and service for our customers,” says Howden’s Craig Stewart – Ventsim Founder.

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Maestro developed in partnership with the mining industry an essential and life saving digital technology, the Vigilante AQS™ air quality station, to measure environmental conditions in real-time for worker health and safety and to reduce the total installed infrastructure costs. With the success of the Vigilante AQS™, Maestro went on to develop the Zephyr AQS™ is a low-cost air quality monitoring station for underground mines that now completes internally with the gold standard – Vigilante AQS™ air quality station.


To date, Maestro has thousands of Vigilantes AQS™, hundreds of Zephyrs AQS™ and MaestroFlex™ automated regulators in underground mines and many that are utilizing the Plexus PowerNet™ last mile communication network. MaestroLinkServer software manages the IIoT devices in the field using advanced edge based diagnostic data thereby reducing on-going calibration and maintenance OPEX. All of Maestro's products are fully digital and have significant information in the form of status bits to determine the health of the sensors and the complete systems. VentSim CONTROL can continue to enhance the customer experience to automate and optimize their mining ventilation to improve mine production, worker safety and significantly reduce a mine's overall energy consumption.

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Michael Gribbons, CEO, President and Co-founder, Maestro Digital Mine, stated that, "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.  These proven solutions installed globally in 35 countries provide safety to the workers, productivity improvements to operators and significant CAPEX and OPEX savings to the project group.  Integrating our ventilation solutions into Ventsim CONTROL is one more way we can create a seamless user interface for customers".
 
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About Howden
For more than a century, Howden has supplied ventilation fans and equipment to every major mining company in the world. Today, Howden's Total Mine Ventilation Solutions (TMVS) is a fully integrated approach to mine ventilation and air quality control. By reducing blast-clearing downtime, Howden can improve production rates by up to 70%. Howden is able to provide all necessary equipment, services, and Ventsim solutions mine sites require in a fully customizable and integrated product offering: Main and Auxiliary Fans, Mine Heaters, Mine Cooling, Ventilation Optimization, and Turnkey solutions. https://www.howden.com/en-gb

 

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MaestroFlex™ Automated Regulators

Real-time diagnostics that allow troubleshooting from surface assuring maximum uptime and safety.


The ModuDrive™ Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) linear actuator provides the ultimate in reliability, precision and high thrust in a compact and robust enclosure. The edge based actuator provides full feedback and health conditions thereby providing maximum uptime and performance.

ModuDrive™ IIoT linear actuators are used for rotary or linear control and positioning:

  • Automated ventilation regulators and louvers
  • Automated safety gates for ramp traffic control
  • Automated ventilation dampers

The ModuDrive™ IIoT linear actuators are 100% electric operated, reliable and simple to apply. The system consists of a remote electronics controller and fully electric linear cylinder providing real-time diagnostics allowing troubleshooting from surface through MaestroLink™ Server.

Installation signatures can be captured comparing the operation of a new application overtime thereby providing early detection of potential failure points.

Smart IIoT actuators provide service counters for starts/stops/total run time, over/under voltage, power failures and min/max internal temperatures providing maximum up-time and worker safety.

Full feedback data on the stroke position, current draw and internal temperature provides early warning of bearing or blade damage on regulators, stuck or broken safety gates or duct blade damage on dampers to allow scheduled maintenance.

Why do automation & mining engineers choose to select ModuDrive™ IIoT linear actuators?

  • Eliminates expensive and maintenance intensive hydraulic and pneumatic actuators.
  • Reduces CAPEX by eliminating hydraulic powerpacks or systems to drain water from compressed air lines.
  • Reduces OPEX by providing real-time advanced diagnostics through MaestroLink™ Server on any desk top PC.
  • Simple connection to any electrical power source and network connection.
  • Soft start and stop functions to eliminate damage from inertia.

 

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Zephyr AQS

The Zephyr AQS™ is an IIoT device designed to accurately monitor real-time environmental conditions and report back to the surface via digital Ethernet or analog output connections.

This cost-effective solution helps reduce downtime and ensures safer, quicker returns to the face.


Zephyr AQS
™ is an ultra-compact, low-cost environmental air quality monitoring station for underground mines. It connects directly to any network without the need for an expensive and complex programmable logic controller (PLC).

Featuring three fully configurable plug-and-play sensor inputs, the Zephyr AQS™ allows for flexible mixing and matching according to underground requirements. Configuration is managed through built-in webpages, similar to a home network router. All sensors connected to the Zephyr AQS™ use industry-standard digital protocols.

The Zephyr AQS™ supports both Modbus TCP/IP and EtherNet/IP™ network communication protocols. Additionally, it offers optional onboard analog outputs (3 x 4-20 mA) and two relay outputs that can integrate with any legacy system.

With its measurement capabilities, comprehensive system diagnostics, and unmatched flexibility and simplicity, the Zephyr AQS™ puts you in control!

 

 

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MaestroFlex™ Automated Regulators

The MaestroFlex™ automated regulators, replacing manual drop board regulators, are designed to exceed underground applications requiring adjustable airflow rates to match changing environmental and mobile equipment demand.


The opposing blade design provides optimal flow control over large ranges allowing its use in Ventilation on Demand (VoD) applications.

MaestroFlex™ automated regulators are used for all forms of ventilation controls:

  • Manual based control systems
  • Time-of-Day control systems
  • Event-Based control system
  • Real-Time (VoD) control systems

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The MaestroFlex™ regulator is used to automatically adjust the airflow on operating levels. Often installed either at the fresh air raise or return air raise and in some applications at both. The automated regulators replace drop board manual regulators that cannot be adjusted from surface, thus enabling operators from surface the ability to control ventilation as required either manually or using VoD software.

MaestroFlex™ automated regulators have been used in critical 24-7 underground mining applications since 2007 and have been designed to withstand both continuous operation and blast concussion.

MaestroFlex™ automated regulators drive out significant CAPEX by eliminating expensive PLCs, transformers, engineering services and panel fabricators. MaestroFlex™ regulators provide a simple connection to any network switch and allows complete control, monitoring and real-time diagnostics over Modbus TCP/IP or EtherNet/IP™ communication protocols.

Why do mining engineers choose to select MaestroFlex™ automated regulators?

  • Adjusting ventilation, level by level, by controlling airflow quantity and quality assures worker health and safety as well as regulatory compliance.
  • Scheduling regulators to fully open before the blast cycle improves blast clearance times and allow miners to return to the face quicker and safer.
  • Reducing energy costs and GHG emissions by providing adequate ventilation to the operational areas of the mine versus ventilating all levels equally.
  • Delaying major capital-intensive projects like additional air raises, booster fans and larger primary fans by reducing the amount of ventilation in areas that are non-operational.

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Double Swing Door with 2 Linear Actuators
Double Swing Door with 2 Linear Actuators

Single Swing Out Door Design
Single Swing Out Door Design

Fixed Dual Vertical Split Panel Design
Fixed Dual Vertical Split Panel Design

Fixed Horizonal Split Panel Design
Fixed Horizonal Split Panel Design

 

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Plexus PowerNet

The first gigabit network providing both data and power using coaxial cable.

Enabling the Digital Mine Starts with Connectivity to the Face.


The Digital Mine is founded on the use of critical data to increase production, reduce costs and enhance worker safety. Most often, underground mines choose fibre optic cable as the means to extend connectivity from the level out to the working areas. In addition a separate power cable is required for the wireless access points.

Fibre presents a number of challenges to the underground mining industry. Terminating fibre underground is difficult, time consuming and requires expensive specialized training, which is frequently, the biggest contributing factor limiting the advance of connectivity. These types of delays inhibit the agility and pace needed to enable the Digital Mine and bring communications to the face.

Identifying the mining industry’s growing demand for real-time data, Maestro Digital Mine works with mining companies around the world to address the challenges associated with traditional communication backbone solutions (broadband and fibre). The Plexus PowerNet™ system quickly extends communications using existing infrastructure to where it is needed.

Plexus PowerNet™ delivers a high speed, low latency digital communication network that provides PoE+ power to Wireless Access Points (WAPs), cameras and any other IP based device. The system eliminates the need for costly outside fiber optic contractors and can be installed and maintained by any internal tradesperson.

Accelerate the time to connectivity by making the complex, simple with the Plexus PowerNet™

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