Schauenburg’s unique Real Time Workforce Locator (RTWL) solution is specifically designed for underground mining environments. The solution provides invaluable insights to promote safety and productivity optimisation efforts.

With real-time visibility on pedestrians, fixed and mobile assets, the RTWL solution enables proactive safety management by instantly identifying personnel locations, movement patterns, and potential risk zones across the operation.

As a core building block of Schauenburg’s Smart Mine solution, RTWL provides the digital foundation to integrate people, assets and systems into a single, intelligent operational ecosystem.

Introducing Schauenburg Systems’ next-generation collision course technology. The ProXYmus Collision Prevention System (CPS) delivers fast and reliable proximity detection between vehicles and personnel.

Safe for underground use, the ProXYmus CPS offers detection between vehicles, people, and hazards, perfect for both legacy and modern fleets. Its advanced radio frequency technology improves safety and situational awareness while helping operations stay compliant with regulations in the most demanding conditions.

The cost-effective system works by integrating multiple sensing and ranging technologies that provide high accuracy. It also includes a modular machine controller printed circuit board equipped with future expansion capabilities to support various forms of communication interfaces.

With centimetre-level accuracy, dynamic zone shaping, and predictive awareness algorithms, ProXYmus ensures precision detection while minimising nuisance alarms.Its intrinsically safe design makes it suitable for use in hazardous environments, and its intuitive operator interfaces, including a smart touchscreen HMI, enable seamless interaction. Fast diagnostics, quick setup, multi-sensor fusion, and detailed data logging and playback round out this versatile, future-ready solution.

The SmartWear+ is a compact handheld device that continously monitors gas levels and warns users with audio, visual, and haptic alerts when hazards are detected. It supports up to three sensors for toxic, flammable, and oxygen gases, with real-time readings shown on the display.

With Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), SmartWear+ connects seamlessly to SmartRange devices for data sharing and management. Integrated location and tracking features enhance worker safety and asset visibility.

SmartMine is a cutting-edge solution designed for modern mining operations, integrating advanced technologies to fully digitise and revolutionise mining processes. Digitalisation is at the heart of SmartMine, enabling seamless integration of newer technologies such as IoT, AI, and machine learning to transform traditional mining into a more efficient, safe, and sustainable endeavour.

Our comprehensive suite of tools includes the Lamp Room Asset Management Solution, Collision Avoidance Solution, and Occupational Safety Solution, each tailored to optimise asset utilisation, help prevent accidents, and ensure regulatory compliance. By leveraging real-time data, analytics, and digital technologies, SmartMine empowers mining operators to make informed decisions, streamline processes, and foster a safer, more productive work environment. This holistic digital transformation drives long-term success and sustainability in the mining industry, setting a new standard for operational excellence and ensuring that mines remain productive and responsible in a rapidly evolving landscape. SmartMine IoT is your partner that is revolutionising mining with open architecture software, leveraging data-driven insights for smarter solutions and informed decision-making, ensuring a safer, more productive tomorrow.

Schauenburg’s Lamproom Management Solutions (LMS), a division of Schauenburg Systems (Pty) Ltd, was established to address the mining industry’s increasing need for enhanced personnel safety, regulatory compliance, and operational accountability. With growing scrutiny around mine safety and the prevention of incidents that could lead to stoppages under Sections 54 and 55 of the Mine Health & Safety Act (MHSA), mines are increasingly recognising the value of partnering with specialised providers to support critical health and safety functions.

This industry shift has driven the development of advanced technologies and integrated information systems that are transforming the traditional lamproom. Historically, lamprooms served primarily as lamp issue centres for underground personnel. Today, they have evolved into integrated safety and verification hubs responsible for the monitoring, control, and reporting of personnel movement, safety equipment compliance, legislated requirements, and best-practice safety protocols across mining operations.

The modern lamproom is now recognised as a central component of mine safety management, enabled through sophisticated Lamproom Management Solutions.

Within the Lamproom Management Solutions environment, systems verify that all safety-critical equipment — particularly equipment subject to functional testing — is fully operational before personnel are granted access to underground working areas. The system also supports equipment accountability by preventing personnel clearance if required equipment is not returned at the end of a shift. This significantly strengthens both operational safety and security.

A comprehensive suite of reporting capabilities is available, including daily exception reporting across multiple equipment categories, backup shaft clearance reporting, as well as equipment allocation and failure analysis reports. The system architecture supports secure remote and web-based access, enabling mine management teams and regulatory authorities such as the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) to generate reports from any internet-enabled location.

Schauenburg’s Lamproom Management Solutions are engineered using a modular design philosophy, allowing systems to be tailored to site-specific operational requirements. In addition, Schauenburg provides end-to-end support, including lamproom layout planning and infrastructure design. With production being critical to mining operations, Lamproom Management Solutions are designed to ensure seamless shift start and end processes, minimising delays and operational disruptions.

As South African mining operations continue to grow in complexity, the demand for specialised skills to manage Lamproom Management Solutions and associated technologies continues to increase. Schauenburg addresses this need through structured skills development programmes, ensuring site personnel are fully trained to operate, maintain, and take ownership of these critical systems. Leveraging OEM expertise not only strengthens operational performance but also reduces safety and compliance risks for mining operations.

Schauenburg maintains a strong national footprint across all provinces in South Africa, providing the platform from which Lamproom Management Solutions can be scaled and adapted to meet the specific operational, safety, and compliance requirements of each client.