Tech Play

Mining is a CAPEX oriented industry. From exploring minerals to capitalizing the entire process, the cost is high and so is the ROI. India has many mineral rich states and concerted efforts have been made to systematically explore and develop the mineral resources in the country. Mineral, being finite and non-renewable natural resources, require special attention so that these are exploited and utilized in an optimal manner. These are the ‘source of treasure’ and constitute the backbone of the industrial

development of the nation but, mining operations are often associated with fraudulent practices and corruptions. To remove the glitches in the mining industry, a comprehensive and transparent integrated system is required. One of the state’s government departments, a nodal agency for decision making of the IT empowered mining came across similar situation wherein, mining process administration was realized through automation. The existing processes needed an upgradation in terms of technology.

Ceinsys with over 20 years of experience in planning, designing, building, and operating mine facilities in various resource regions came up with the solution that an integrated system should be in place with Vehicle Tracking System & Command Control Centre to provide real time and uninterrupted information about the mineral carrying process. The system will consist of development of a single window for all the mining stakeholders like mining department, lessees, licensees, traders and transporters. The new system was labelled as Khanij 2.0.

Khanij 2.0 is an interactive platform between the lease holders/buyers and the state government. It consists of a mobile and a web-based interface for all the stakeholders to monitor and locate the GPS devices registered with the system. The overall architecture is a cloud-based system which hosts the application and all the data thus minimising the dependencies and loop holes of the on-premise data centres. The entire IT Infrastructure is being be managed by establishing an Integrated Command & Control Centre (ICCC) which is the connected with the district/zonal offices for monitoring the geo-location specific incidents and geo-spatial display. ICCC consists of user specifications dashboards for easy visualization and monitoring of data. This is done by supplying all the hardware and infrastructure related to the project for the entire project duration. Supplement with Operation and Maintenance of entire system with training and capacity building to support the application and operational mechanism. This is one of the state-of-the-art projects which has all the major components like mining data, VTS system, ICCC platform integrated on a single platform which will result in ease of doing business. The project will reduce the revenue leakages generated earlier during mineral management as the entire process will be automated for all the major & minor minerals for the state. This project will be one of its kind wherein all the project sub-components (Mines & minerals data, VTS, ICCC) will be integrated onto one screen.

Overall, the project resulted in-

• Increased revenue generation and curb down the illegal mining activities.
• Ease of doing business.
• Real-time data analytics to monitor key performance parameters of lessee and lesser.
• State-wide mineral movement tracking using the integrated Vehicle Tracking System.
• Interactive & user specific dashboards for easy visualization of data showing key performance indicators.

Key Project Highlights –

• Core enterprise solutioning capabilities of Ceinsys.
• Amalgamation of mining, Vehicle tracking system and IT in the form of ICCC onto one single portal.
• Cloud based solution development minimizing the dependencies of on-prem systems.
• Automated real-time view for all the stakeholders.
• Transparency in the form of revenue transactions.

This project showcases the enterprise excellency and capabilities of Ceinsys in terms of technical project management.