CRUSHERBUDDY

Site footage — a foreign object picked out of the feed and boxed by the detector.

Detected object classes

Timber Mesh Rock bolts Poly pipe GET

Deployment locations

Apron feeder

Camera over the pans, upstream of the discharge. The feeder halts with the object still sitting on a pan, before it tips over the head end onto the belt below — reachable from the walkway, rather than wedged in the chamber.

CAM 01 · APRON FEEDER FEED RUNNING

Illustration of system behaviour. Object identified on the pan — feeder stopped short of the discharge, with the object still on the pan.

Cameras watch material as it travels along the apron feeder. When a foreign object is identified, the feeder stops and the operator is alerted — with the object still on the pan, not in the chamber.

A second camera can be positioned over the grizzly as a backup, catching anything that makes it past the first.

Most sites already have power and communications at this location, so the installation is usually a matter of leveraging what's there rather than running new infrastructure.

Sequence

What happens on a detection

Object identified on the apron feeder
Feeder stops
Operator alerted, with the frame that triggered it
Operator clears the object and restarts the feed

Location 02

Primary crusher

On a direct-tip station there is no feeder in front of the crusher — the haul truck tips straight into the pocket. The camera watches the load leaving the tray and stops the crusher while the object is still sitting in the rock bed, not on its way onto the mantle.

CAM 02 · PRIMARY CRUSHER TIPPING · CRUSHER RUNNING

Illustration of system behaviour. Object identified in the tipping load — crusher stopped, object recovered from the pocket.

The camera

One sealed unit, mounted where it can see the material

Lens and lamps on a single bracket, so an install is one mounting point and one cable run rather than a rig assembled on site.

Front elevation of the camera, showing the lens centred between four lamps arranged around it — Front elevation — lens centred, lamps on each corner.

The camera at an angle, showing the sun hood extending over the finned housing — Hood over the lens, shading it from direct sun.

Rear three-quarter view showing the finned housing and the pedestal bracket — Finned housing — heat off the sensor, no moving parts.

The camera on an overhead bracket, hanging below the mounting plate — Overhead bracket for mounting above the feeder.

Each lamp is on its own adjustable arm, so the light can be aimed at the material rather than left square to the housing — useful where the camera sits off to one side of the pans.

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Camera specification, detected object classes, installation requirements and integration options.

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