InnovaMina

Digital innovations in mining

Digital solutions introduced to mining, such as distributed sensors combined with data analysis, boost efficiency, safety, and sustainability. They enable operational optimization, predictive maintenance, and reduced environmental impact.

InnovaMina project develops and validates three products that will digitalize the mining industry. These solutions integrate optical IoT devices, fiber-optic sensing, and machine-learning analytics to enable continuous, real-time monitoring of structural stability in infrastructures such as slopes and Tailing Dams.

InnovaMina unites academia and industry to deliver three complementary, non-invasive monitoring solutions that will provide actionable insights and enhance operational efficiency. The following products will be developed and validated at two pilot sites with end user mining operators:

IoT-based diffractometry for continuous, real-time detection of structural movements
An anomaly-detection module to monitor operations and ensure sensor-network integrity
Fiber-optic shear-wave-velocity mapping for early warnings of subsurface anomalies

InnovaMina originates from two prior EIT Raw Materials projects: AMICOS, which developed real-time IoT geotechnical monitoring using mechanical tilt and displacement sensors, and SEC4TD, which created a scalable, cloud-native platform to harmonise heterogeneous GNSS data feeds. It extends the validated components of these previous projects and introduces capabilities via three complementary monitoring modalities.

Worldsensing role

Worldsensing main responsibilities in InnovaMina include:

Project coordination and business champion, overseeing strategic alignment, overall execution, and market-oriented decision-making.
Participation in the technical development of products P1 and P2, leveraging its expertise in wireless sensing and IoT technologies.
Lead dissemination, exploitation, industrialization and compliance activities.
Lead definition and execution of go-to-market strategy, ensuring successful commercialization and exploitation phases of the InnovaMina innovations.

InnovaMina – Digital innovations in Mining is a European project funded by the EIT Raw Materials, an initiative of the EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology), a body of the European Union (Project Agreement No. 25214).