Bitumen and Heavy Oil: ShovelSentry

ShovelSentry 

ShovelSentry watches over your shovel and alerts mine site personnel to the two most common disruptions:

Tooth breakage

A broken shovel tooth entering your downstream equipment is expensive and time consuming. ShovelSentry:

  • Instantly alerts you when a tooth breaks
  • Prevents equipment damage
  • Reduces downtime
  • Reduces false positives with second generation software
  • Improves safety

Tooth wear

Stay on top of your shovel teeth maintenance. ShovelSentry:

  • Tracks tooth longevity
  • Provides data to manage shovel maintenance proactively

Unrivalled dependability

ShovelSentry is the only patented second generation product that uses the latest in machine vision technology.

A video camera monitors the shovel, and uses dual layer software to analyze the tooth line. When a tooth breaks, ShovelSentry alerts the shovel operator. The operator uses onscreen utilities to assess the situation and take appropriate action.

The proprietary dual layer software increases the systems reliability, reducing the incidence of false positives.

Designed for the mining environment, ShovelSentry is NEMA 4X rated and CSA approved and uses heavy duty equipment.

 

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Equipment jammed by a broken tooth

Photo courtesy of Syncrude Canada Ltd.