Dam Tailings

Monitoring

Remote TFS monitoring for dam and safety compliance

Introducing Sentinel — your all-in-one Tailings Storage Facility monitoring solution. Built on Davra, the industry-leading IoT platform, Sentinel helps you stay compliant with global standards, enhance operational efficiency, and minimise risk across all your mining sites. Our integrated monitoring solution delivers real-time 24/7 visibility and actionable insights, ensuring you continuous oversight and enabling rapid response to issues before they escalate.

Maximise safety and compliance:

Monitor critical environmental factors like water table levels, ground moisture and stability, to detect risks early, prevent failures and maintain compliance.

Prevent flooding risks:

Instantly detect changes in water table levels and moisture accumulation to identify early signs of flooding and deploy proactive mitigation strategies.

Ensure ground stability:

Leverage AI-driven analysis to detect long-term ground shifts and predict potential failures before they become costly hazards.

Improve decision-making:

Track seepage contamination and environmental changes with advanced Earth Observation (EO) analytics and real-time sensor data for smarter, faster responses.

Identify early warning signs:

Monitor environmental changes over time with 2D and 3D history replay. Access EO layer history and track environmental changes, including topography, vegetation and moisture shifts.

Continuously monitor critical infrastructure.

Simplify GISTM compliance.

View and manage sites from one certralised platform.

Reduce risks of TSF failure.

Automate reporting and collection.

Support multi-site management with unlimited scalability.

Find out how Sentinel supported INTASOL Tailings in tailings management for mines in South Africa.

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Tailings monitoring built for compliance

Monitor and report TSF performance in alignment with GISTM standards.

Visualise

Monitor your TFS sites 24/7 with mapped data from satellites, sensors and drones, all on one integrated platform.

Analyse

Use historical and real-time data to identify deviations, benchmark performance, and refine your TSF strategy.

Report

Generate accurate, regulatory-ready reports in just a few clicks with no need for manual input.

Comply

Collect, manage and report tailings data using fully automated GISTM-approved templates.

How It Works

Earth Observation (EO) & Sensor Data

EO layer history replay.

EO edge analytics to detect long-term changes in ground stability.

EO seepage contamination detection using changes in vegetation and moisture index.

EO flood modeling and prediction based on water table level, water moisture index from EO data, and

weather predictions.

EO premium service priority requests.

Incident response workflows.

Regulatory Compliance.

The solution is ICMM Compliant.

Sentinel - Personnel Location & Safety

IOTDC is developing a cloud-based personnel locating and monitoring platform for the mining industry. The platform provides near real-time location visibility, behavioural alerting, and personnel accountability for surface mining operations, specifically tailings facilities and wide-area sites where traditional GSM connectivity is unavailable.

The solution addresses a significant gap in the South African market: while existing providers excel at underground collision avoidance systems, there is no strong local offering for wide-area surface RTLS with integrated personnel management software. This gap, combined with mandatory compliance requirements, creates a compelling market opportunity.

Problem Statement

Regulatory

Compliance Gap

MHSA amendments (March 2025) mandate tagging and tracking for all operations, yet many surface and tailings facilities lack adequate systems.

Connectivity

Constraints

Remote tailings areas have no GSM coverage, requiring non-GSM solutions such as LoRaWAN, mesh, or satellite.

Personnel

Accountability

No robust system exists for booking devices to individuals, tracking entry and exit, and maintaining real-time headcounts.

Incident

Response

Inability to quickly locate personnel,

detect stationary or man-down situations,

or replay historical movements for

incident investigation.

Software

Fragmentation

Existing solutions focus on hardware

and collision avoidance; software for booking,

playback, and alerting is weak

orabsent

Market Opportunity

A purpose-built surface RTLS software platform with strong booking and accountability features, designed for non-GSM environments.

In Scope (MVP)

Out of Scope (MVP)

Key Differentiators

Software-First

Approach

Purpose-built platform,

not a hardware

vendor afterthought.

Booking System

Excellence

Full personnel

accountability lifecycle,

not just location dots on

a map.

Multi-Tenant

Architecture

Designed for SaaS scale

from day one with a

Platform - Tenant -

Site hierarchy.

Non-GSM

Nativ

Built for LoRaWAN and

mesh environments, not

retrofitted GSM solutions.

Local

Deployment

AWS for South African

data residency with a local

support model.

See it in Action

Benefits

Real-time environmental monitoring

Automated risk detection and alerts

Compliance with ICMM standards

Predictive insights for proactive action

Remote data reporting and analysis

Integrates easily with regulatory workflows

Features

AI-driven ground stability monitoring

Flood risk indicators with EO insights

Seepage and contamination detection

Climate impact assessment

Incident response workflows

Customisable trigger–action response plans

Mobile app for on-site data access and input

Integration of LiDAR, drone, and remote sensors

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