IESA announces JV for world-first eCloud technology

IESA announce JV with Nepean in world-first eCloud data monitoring program

Integrated Environmental Services Australia (IESA) announce today a joint venture with  Nepean Power for the creation of an environmental monitoring eCloud.  The product will have huge implications for mining and other industries who are reliant upon consistent field monitoring of data such as weather, water or dust.

IESA will be integrating remote location sensors into a web hosted eCloud service that can be securely accessed by clients anywhere around the world.

The eCloud will not only provide live data feed, but also historic data which is vital to a customers’ decision making process.

IESA and Nepean will be working with university researchers to provide high level data and statistical analysis in real time by cloud computers with remote data that has never previously been available to researchers.

Jack Riddell, Environmental Manager at IESA said, “The ability for mining companies, and other industries, to be able to have access to their remote field monitors 24 hours a day, securely from their own computers anywhere in the world, will change the way we work.  We are removing the shackles of how information had traditionally flowed with receiving and analysing data from environmental field monitoring equipment.”

Dean Kirkwood, Manager, Technology Division of Nepean in Mackay said, “These types of environmental monitoring sensors can be located in extremely remote locations in harsh environments.  The eCloud will save money, increase productivity and limit risk to personnel having to read these monitors manually on a regular basis.”

The prototype for the environmental eCloud will be ready in March for testing in remote mining regions in Chile, where IESA has recently linked up with Rio Baker in Santiago.  The prototype will be first tested in the remote minging regions of Chile and demonstrated in April at the Expomin in Santiago.

IESA and Nepean Power, two Mackay-based companies, linked up through their Mackay Area
Industry Network (MAIN) association. MAIN provides members with networking opportunities that facilitate this type of relationship.

Narelle Pearse, Managing Director of MAIN, said both IESA and Nepean are members of the MAIN Export Group.  “Mackay is the centre of innovation for the mining industry in Australia, and the new Joint Venture between the two MAIN member companies is a perfect example of how companies can come together to provide new and innovative services to the industry worldwide.  One of the aims of MAIN is to ensure the long term sustainability of our local industry through innovation and the entry into new export markets.”

IESA is a leading environmental consultancy in Australia with representation in South America, USA & UK with specialty services in water, groundwater, dust, ecology, soils and instrumentation.  The synergy between them and Nepean, a global company who provides world-class engineered solutions for the mining, transport and construction industries was a perfect fit for developing this project, in conjunction with Queensland-based university researchers.

 

23 January 2012