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SMART MINING: The Intelligent Transformation of the Yimin Open Pit Coal Mine in China

YIMIN OPEN PIT COAL MINE located in the HULUNBUIR region of INNER MONGOLIA in CHINA, hosts the world’s first large scale fleet of 100 fully autonomous AI driven electric mining and battery powered trucks developed by HUAWEI and XCMG.

HAEWEI’s commercializing and integrating autonomous technology in smart vehicles, heavy industry and telecommunications.

At YIMIN COAL MINE, the driving cloud service coordinates the vehicles, networks and cloud using sensors, radars and high resolution 360-degree cameras with zero blind spots. Integrating AI algorithms, increasing efficiency by 20 percent compared to previous manual operations.

INNER MONGOLIA MOBILE and HUAWEI collaborated to install 5G Advanced base stations guaranteeing stable supply, transmission and distribution of data at a high input/output ratio, enabling more sustainable and environmentally efficient and safer mining.

Operated by China Huaneng Group, the coal mined, supplements the generation of 3500MW of electricity at the Huaneng Yimin Power Station.

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