Types of Confined Spaces

At VELASTRA, we provide versatile and adaptable communication solutions to tackle the unique challenges of each industry, ensuring optimal performance in various environments. We specialize in multiple sectors.

Open-Pit & Underground Mining Monitoring

Total visibility — from pit floor to underground drift.

Velastra brings always-on connectivity to even the harshest, most isolated corners of your mine — enabling real-time data from heavy machines, slope monitors, and underground environmental sensors.

Key Benefits

  • Prevent structural failures by monitoring slope movement, ground deformation, and vibration trends in real time.
  • Improve worker safety with continuous tracking of air quality (CO, CO₂, CH₄), temperature, and humidity underground.
  • Optimize shift operations by tracking machine location, runtime, and environmental status across dispersed work zones.

Industry Impact

Continuous Monitoring

Enabled continuous machine and environmental monitoring across blind spots in deep pits—reducing unplanned downtime by 30% and improving worker safety in inaccessible zones.

68% reduction

in unplanned downtime (due to early slope/machine failure alerts)

>80% fewer manual inspections

underground for gas or structural checks

30% improvement

in equipment utilization across shifts

Cost Savings

With enchanced operation efficiency

Crushing & Processing Plant Monitoring

Maximize output. Minimize breakdowns.

Your crushers, conveyors, and mills are the heart of production. Velastra enables real-time monitoring of wear, throughput, and mechanical stress — even when these plants operate far from the central control room.

Key Benefits

  • Reduce downtime by catching early signs of motor overload, bearing wear, or conveyor belt misalignment.
  • Maximize throughput by analyzing flow rate, load variation, and crushing efficiency remotely.
  • Enable predictive maintenance with telemetry from motors, gearboxes, and vibration sensors — all streamed via satellite or mesh.

The Results

Up to 25% increase

in plant throughput (from real-time crusher & motor tuning)

40% reduction

in maintenance costs (predictive over preventive)

50% faster

fault diagnosis on motor/gear failures using vibration insights

Cost Savings​

With enchanced operation efficiency

Contractor Equipment Management

Track every asset. Eliminate guesswork.

In remote mining operations, equipment leased from contractors is often misused, underutilized, or lost in reporting gaps. Velastra gives site managers a live overview of every dozer, loader, dumper, or JCB — with real utilization and health insights.

Key Benefits

  • Monitor fuel usage and machine health to reduce wear, improve efficiency, and detect abuse.

  • Track location and hours of contractor equipment to ensure accurate billing and accountability.

  • Reduce idle time by analyzing usage trends and optimizing shift deployment in real time.

The Results

100% Visibility for Machines

Brought 100% visibility into contractor-operated machines with real-time location, fuel, and usage data—leading to 20% reduction in idle time and tighter cost control on outsourced operations.

>90% accuracy

in contractor billing via GPS & engine-hour tracking

35% reduction

in idle time of loaders, haulers, and JCBs

15–20% savings

in diesel costs via fuel analytics and misuse alerts

Cost Savings

With enchanced operation efficiency

Mineral Exploration Monitoring

Geological insights without delay.

Exploration teams often work far from base camps or comms networks. Velastra connects borehole sensors, GNSS/GPR systems, and field instruments to the cloud — giving geology teams access to data the moment it’s collected.

Key Benefits

  • Accelerate decision-making by streaming borehole pressure, geophysical, and geochemical data in real time.
  • Reduce crew exposure with fewer trips back and forth to manually transfer data or calibrate sensors.
  • Collaborate across teams by syncing remote rig data instantly with central teams or labs, anywhere in the world.

The Results

Seamless Real-time Data Tranansmission

Enabled seamless data transmission from remote exploration zones—cutting survey-to-analysis time by 70% and reducing repeated site visits through real-time geological data access.

>60% faster

decision-making during drilling campaigns (real-time borehole data)

Zero data loss

from remote rigs (even in GSM blackouts)

40% lower

crew risk exposure by reducing back-and-forth field trips

Cost Savings

With enchanced operation efficiency

Use Cases

Fall of Ground (FoG) Detection — Enabled by Velastra

FoG incidents remain one of the leading causes of injury, production downtime, and equipment loss in underground mining

Velastra-enabled FoG detectors complement geophone-based systems by capturing and transmitting data from localized rockfalls, small seismic shifts, or microbursts — even in areas where traditional comms don’t reach.

Our plug-and-play gateway ensures that every signal — no matter how subtle — is transmitted in real time via LoRa, Bluetooth, or satellite uplink, enabling early warnings and faster evacuation or response protocols.

By bringing edge intelligence underground, Velastra helps protect your people, assets, and productivity.

Measurable Impact:

Reduced unplanned mine stoppages by up to 35% and improved early-warning response times by 50% through real-time detection of micro-seismic events, even in deep zones without existing communication infrastructure. Resulted in fewer injuries, safer evacuation, and protection of high-value equipment.

Smarter Ventilation. Safer Mines. Lower Emissions

In underground mining, ventilation accounts for up to 40% of total energy use, making it one of the largest operational expenses — and a major source of CO₂ emissions.

Velastra enables smarter ventilation through a plug-and-play IoT sensor network that monitors:

  • Temperature & Humidity
  • Fan RPM & Vibration
  • Gas levels (CO, CH₄, NO₂, O₂)

Our system transmits real-time data via mesh or satellite — no matter how deep or remote — allowing your control center to optimize airflow dynamically.

Industry Impact:

  • Up to 25% reduction in energy consumption through data-driven ventilation control
  • Real-time CO and CH₄ alerts to ensure worker safety
  • Lower CO₂ footprint without compromising air quality or compliance
  • <60-second latency from sensor to dashboard — even underground