A platform for facilitating development of intelligence in an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) system generally includes a plurality of distinct data-handling layers having an industrial monitoring systems layer that collects data from or about a plurality of industrial entities in an industrial environment; an industrial entity-oriented data storage systems layer that stores the data collected by the industrial monitoring systems layer; and an adaptive intelligent systems layer that facilitates the coordinated development and deployment of intelligent systems in the IIoT system; wherein the adaptive intelligent systems layer includes an adaptive edge compute management system that adaptively manages edge computation, storage, and processing in the IIoT system.

Disclosed herein are a control method and system. The system includes: a deactivation control; a control centre controller for storing an association between the deactivation control and a selected set of mine sites; a plurality of autonomous drill rigs, each drill rig having a drill shutdown module to disable a function of the respective drill rig upon receipt of a deactivation command; and a mine site controller associated with each mine site, each mine site controller being coupled to all autonomous drill rigs located at the respective mine site with which the mine site controller is associated. Activating the deactivation control transmits a deactivation command from the deactivation control to the control centre controller. The control centre controller forwards the deactivation command to a mine site controller associated with each mine site in the set of mine sites for distribution to all autonomous drill rigs at that mine site.

In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a robot automated mining method. In one embodiment, a method includes a robot positioning a charging component for entry into a drill hole. In one embodiment, a method includes a robot moving a charging component within a drill hole. In one embodiment, a method includes a robot filling a drill hole with explosive material. In one embodiment, a method includes operating a robot within a mining environment.

Methods and systems for a data marketplace in a conveyor environment includes a self-organizing data marketplace. The self-organizing data marketplace includes at least one data collector and at least one corresponding conveyor in an industrial environment, wherein the at least one data collector is structured to collect detection values from at least one sensor of a power roller of the at least one corresponding conveyor; a data storage structured to store a data pool comprising at least a portion of the detection values; a data marketplace structured to self-organize the data pool; and a transaction system structured to interpret a user data request, and to selectively provide a portion of the self-organized data pool to a user in response to the user data request.

A planning system (201) for scheduling the operation of autonomous entities within a defined geographical region. The planning system operates at a region plan level (301) for strategic planning across the geographical region, at an operation plan level (302) for operations to be performed by autonomous entities in localized zones having operation-defined geographical boundaries, and at a task plan level (303) in which processing is undertaken in respect of specific tasks to be performed by the autonomous entities, in undertaking the operations.

Systems and methods for data collection and processing are described, including a plurality of variable groups of industrial sensor inputs operationally coupled to an industrial environment and a multiplexer communicatively coupled to the industrial sensor inputs; and a controller configured to receive and monitor the data and adaptively schedule the data collector.

A mining machine management system includes: a position information detection unit detecting position information related to a position of a mining machine; and a determination unit determining whether a second route corresponding to a position information group obtained from a plurality of pieces of the position information detected when the mining machine is in operation is identical to a first route that is a route taken by the mining machine departing a predetermined first position, passing a second position at which a load is loaded, and moving to a third position at which the load is removed, based on at least route information of the first route and the position information group, the route information including a plurality of nodes present at every predetermined distance of the first route and a link connecting the nodes adjacent to each other.

The present disclosure describes systems and methods for data collection in an industrial environment having self-organization functionality. A method can include analyzing a plurality of sensor inputs, sampling data received from the sensor inputs, and self-organizing at least one of (i) a storage operation of the data, (ii) a collection operation of sensors that provide the plurality of sensor inputs, and (iii) a selection operation of the plurality of sensor inputs. The method may further include receiving instructions directing a mobile data collector unit to operate sensors at a target, transmitting a communication to one or more other mobile data collector units regarding the instructions, and self-organizing a distribution of the mobile data collector unit.

Systems and methods for data collection and detection of noise patterns. A system may include a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels, wherein at least one of the plurality of input channels is operatively coupled to a vibration detection facility structured to detect a noise pattern of an industrial machine, a library to store the detected noise pattern, an interface circuit structured to make the noise pattern available to a noise pattern marketplace, the noise pattern marketplace including a plurality of noise patterns from a plurality of industrial machines, and a user interface for accessing the plurality of noise patterns of the noise pattern marketplace.

Monitoring systems and methods for data collection in an industrial environment are described. A system can include a first and second data collector coupled to input channels and a data acquisition circuit to interpret detection values corresponding to the input channels, wherein the sensor data is acquired from a first route of input channels. A data storage may store sensor specifications for sensors corresponding to the input channels and a data analysis circuit may evaluate the sensor data with respect to stored anticipated state information including an alarm threshold level. When the threshold is exceeded, a communication circuit communicates with a second data collector which transmits a state message related to a first input channel. A response circuit changes a routing of the input channels from a first routing to an alternate routing based on the state message from the second data collector.