Smarter, integrated monitoring unlocks faster insights and better decision-making
Reliable, timely data coupled with meaningful analysis and user-friendly visualisations. This is what allows mine managers to make earlier, more informed and more confident decisions to reduce risk and optimise performance.
As technology has progressed, new opportunities have arisen for lifting the efficiency, immediacy and accuracy of data, leading to more sustainable water usage and improved operational performance.
For more than 15 years, Entura has harnessed these opportunities, partnering with large mining clients to progressively enhance water monitoring.
What was previously a conventional, manual data-gathering process for the mining operation — heavy on time and labour — has evolved into a highly automated, integrated monitoring network, reflecting Entura’s commitment to innovation and client-centred solutions.
Entura’s ongoing partnership has helped the mining operator meet the increasingly stringent requirements for continuous, transparent monitoring throughout the lifecycle of tailings facilities in line with the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM). It has also increased data integrity and security, operational efficiency and asset resilience.
The relationship began with Entura’s proprietary telemetry loggers and data management system, which delivered early advances in data collection and analysis. As needs grew, Entura integrated multi-vendor logger data into the data management system, enabling a broader and more flexible monitoring approach. Today, Entura’s advanced systems create a unified environment for integrating diverse data sources and delivering powerful analytics, visualisation and reporting capabilities.
With the current telemetry-enabled system, data is automatically captured, processed and visualised in near real-time. The system automatically analyses critical operating parameters (COPs) for trigger action response plan (TARP) alerting and quality assurance reporting.
By incorporating a wide range of documentation (such as reports, test results and field notes), a rich knowledge base can be compiled, stored and interrogated. The new integrated architecture also consolidates data from aerial surveys, weather stations, soil moisture sensors, camera imagery and operational data into the single, accessible platform. Intuitive, easy-to-interpret visualisations enable earlier detection of anomalies and more confident decision-making.
Entura has also improved the reliability of the network through field hardware upgrades, solar-powered telemetry sites, and continuous monitoring of battery voltage and signal strength. These changes have reduced maintenance demands, freeing site teams to prioritise dam inspections and performance assessment.
Beyond providing monitoring solutions, Entura offers a broad suite of services to the mining industry — from water management and environmental monitoring to the design and commissioning of hybrid renewable energy systems for remote off-grid or grid-connected sites. Entura is also currently serving as Owner’s Engineer on the landmark Kidston pumped storage hydro project — Australia’s first pumped hydro scheme in decades, and the first to repurpose former gold mining pits as reservoirs, demonstrating how legacy mining assets can support the energy transition.
Leveraging deep expertise in water, data solutions, utility-scale renewables and integrated control systems, Entura is helping mines across Australia manage risks, optimise operations and transition to a lower-carbon future.
