BW Offshore
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Protecting Air Quality Across Western Australia's Goldfields
Gold refining across Kalgoorlie's mines produces sulphur dioxide gas, and government regulation requires active monitoring to prevent pollution breaches. KCGM manages the shared environmental monitoring system responsible for that oversight: nearly a dozen monitoring huts spread across Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie, Kurrawang, and Kambalda.
When Environmental Data Can't Be Trusted
The existing telemetry was aging out, and sharing data across a mix of analog and digital connections was slow and unreliable. Data drifted out of sync between sites, and historical reporting couldn't be reconciled against a single standard. KCGM needed one thing above all: a way to make the system accurate and consistent, sitewide.
Building a Single Source of Truth for Compliance Reporting
IFS built the fix on two industry-standard technologies: IP networks and real-time historians. A wide area network now links the remote huts to a central location over upgraded legacy connections, with new broadband links to end users. Ethernet-based dataloggers at each hut record and transmit data files back to a central server.
At the core of the system, historian software paired with a custom data interface lets the server ingest high-speed data from every site. Users query one common source instead of reconciling multiple versions, which is what makes reporting accurate in the first place. For higher-level reporting, KCGM integrated that environmental data into IFS.ai Operational Intelligence, giving the team full visibility into real-time and historical performance across every location, supported by custom visualizations like wind vanes and plume tracking.
Reliable Reporting Backed by Better Visibility
- Reliability. Digital capture at the source, error-resistant communication protocols, and history recovery features keep data collection dependable.
- Accuracy. A central master historian server means every report is built on the same single source of truth.
- Visibility. Environmental data is accessible from any intranet PC, including for remote consultants, with the ability to navigate through time to review emission issues.
- Maintainability. New IP technologies can be integrated as the system ages, without disrupting data processing.
