On Monday, India’s CSM Technologies, a Bhubaneswar-headquartered IT development company that has been involved primarily in government technology (GovTech) solutions), announced the launch of a new app for the mining industry. The app–called IntegratORE–has been billed as a “first-of-its-kind” digital solution that tracks ore at every stage from “pit-to-port,” from extraction to processing, stacking, sampling, loading and its transportation to the final consumer touchpoint.
CSM says that IntegratORE has been designed to overcome the pain points of every stakeholder across the mining value chain: leaseholders, government authorities, traders, transporters, bankers, end-use industries and more. The company says that, in addition to easing worries for the mine lessees about sourcing and movement of ore, IntegratORE’s digital suite is designed to reinforce governance in mining.
Calling the technology a “mining super-app,” CSM Technologies says the platform marks the culmination of more than a decade of work in conceptualizing digital mining solutions for governments and private enterprises.
“As the creator of this digital aggregator, CSM Technologies believes IntegratORE heralds a new wave of ground-level reforms in mining,” said CSM President and CEO Priyadarshi Nanu Pany. “Being location and client agnostic, IntegratORE can serve all stakeholders.
According to the company, the mining sector is uniquely challenged, as it operates in geographically remote areas, and relies heavily on multi-modal transportation. As a homogenous, digital platform, IntegratORE connects all the critical constituents of the mining ecosystem, such as mineral excavation, stacking of ore with grade identification, stockyard management and weighment operations and multi-modal logistics. It leverages data analytics and real-time reporting, crunching them in an intuitive dashboard to enable both the government machinery and mine owners to take prudent decisions.
For governments, IntegratORE is equipped with features like royalty assessment & collection, reporting & return filing, applications for permits & licenses, integration with dispatch processes, real-time stock-keeping, and real-time and monthly reconciliations of receivables and payables. Per CSM Technologies, the platform also has useful components for enterprise miners: IoT (Internet of Things)-based productivity solutions for weighment and dispatch processing, AR/VR based mineral grade determination, digitalized logistics operations across all touchpoints, in-premise trace and track, in-premise guidance systems, MIS reports and dashboards and despatch planning and scheduling.
