Symboticware Engineers Return from Baffin Island
Two members of the Symboticware team, Bora Ugurgel and Bikash Agarwal, returned this week from Baffin Island after completing two environmental monitoring projects.
The first project was for Peregrine Diamonds Ltd., and involved the installation of a remote meteorological station in South Baffin Island. This station will be deployed at this location for approximately 4 years, and is completely remote controlled and accessible using a simple to use interface.
“It was a great experience for myself and the company. It gives us a great opportunity to demonstrate our products, in this case our autonomous weather stations, in a harsh Canadian arctic setting,” says Bora Ugurgel.
SymBotic Relationship
Via CIM Magazine
by D. Zlotnikov
In the complex, harsh world of mining, the SymBot, a new equipment monitoring platform that communicates by satellite, cellular network and Wi-Fi, is built tough and, as the name suggests, SymBot plays well with others.
The SymBot platform, designed to comply with open standards for industrial automation and systems interoperability, is a durable, energy-efficient hardware/software device that can be applied to monitor equipment information such as location, pay load data and emissions or operating environments.
The device hails back to 2008 when its parent company, Symboticware, received grants from the Ontario and federal governments to develop what was an R&D project into a full-fledged commercial product.
North Baffin Island Monitoring Project
Via Ground Breaking News
by CEMI
This CEMI funded research project between Symboticware Incorporated, Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, and Laurentian University established an embedded network for weather monitoring across North Baffin Island.
Mining and other operations in Canada’s far north must deal with not just extreme weather but a climate in flux because of global processes. Weather monitoring is especially important for day-to-day operations, for seasonal planning, and for evaluating weather-related risks. However, in such an extreme and remote habitat, collecting environmental data is a daunting task.
Symboticware Pioneers Real-Time Monitoring
Via Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal
by Norm Tollinsky
Symboticware Incorporated, a Sudbury-based technology company, has teamed up with Vale Inco, the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation and Cast Resource Equipment Ltd., a heavy equipment sales and service company, to develop, demonstrate and commercialize an open information management platform for mobile underground mining equipment.
Weather Data Beamed from Baffin Island
Via Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal
by Norm Tollinsky
Underground mines aren’t the only harsh environments in which there is a need for near real-time data.
The northern tip of Baffin Island, where Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation is proposing to develop an 18 million tonne per year open pit mine, is 1,000 kilometres northwest of Iqualuit in Canada’s Arctic.
The Toronto-based junior mining company operates three weather stations logging data required for environmental baseline studies.
Symboticware Digs Up Ways to Monitor Mines
Sudbury company technology used underground, Canadian Arctic
By: Northern Ontario Business staff
From the biting, frozen winds of Baffin Island to the grit of Sudbury’s underground, Symboticware Inc. is no stranger to some of the harshest climates inflicted on Canadian mining operations.
Bartolucci Announces Funds to Help Develop Environmental Technology
“These types of investments are important to the diversification of our local economy,” says MPP.
Greater Sudbury – The McGuinty government is helping Symboticware Incorporated develop its unique monitoring technology by investing $50,000 through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation’s (NOHFC) Emerging Technology program, Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci announced today.
Technology to Challenge Rugged North
Via The Sudbury Star
by Harold Carmichael
A little more than a year ago, Symboticware Inc. was a fledgling Greater Sudbury company operating out of a basement.
Today, it’s got an office in downtown Greater Sudbury staffed by seven very busy people.
Symboticware Inc.’s goal is to develop unique monitoring technology that can operate in harsh environments such as underground mines and the Canadian Arctic, but also stand out from existing monitoring/communication systems.
Symboticware Incorporated Receives Funding from FedNor
The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for FedNor, today announced a multi-million dollar Government of Canada investment, aimed at providing a solid foundation for economic recovery and development efforts across Northern Ontario.