Stockpilr UI - Coal Stockpile Management App
Stockpilr is a proactive stockpile management app for coal created for a weekend hackathon, #UnearthedBrisbane. We solved a problem provided by BMA coal, which roughly costs the industry $120 billion.
If you are interested, the explanation..
In theory, different qualities of coal is blended in an efficient manner for purposes such as power generation. However in reality when mining companies want to blend the coal for their purposes it is entirely based on guesswork meaning that they are potentially losing billions of dollars every year. The problem stems from the fact that coal is being dumped into stockpiles without any recording of how good the quality of the coal is. Currently even simple factors such as how much coal is in the stockpile is not known.
Stockpilr is an app designed to tackle this problem by making it easy for site supervisors to monitor where coal is coming from including important attributes such as the coal quality, how old the coal is, and where it has been sourced from.Currently, a coal stockpile is like a black box: the history of sections of coal within the stockpile is not recorded.
Given mining data, pit and seam, and the *geo* coordinates of (A) where mined coal was dumped, and (B) where coal is collected for downstream, our application will provide an up-to-date dashboard that provides color-coded information about the grade and age of coal within the stockpile.
Stockpilr will help BMA to make informed decisions based on the monitoring and forecasting features provided.
Directions moving forward,
1. Data importer: add data from various sources for visualisation
2. Blend-building recipes: Stockpilr could produce instruction sheets for collecting coal from various locations to meet a blend requirement (cut sheets)
3. Improve degradation models: downstream coal performance could be added to Stockpilr to compare predicted quality against measured quality
4. Track the source: Stockpilr will allow geologists to identify at which pit (and potentially seam) a batch of coal was mined. Downstream problems could be traced to the source.
http://stockpilr.tk
(Very shocking.. But, coded for tablet and laptop screens due to time limitations and the implementation is very shaky.)