Huawei builds first smart potash mine in Laos

Huawei is rapidly increasing global partnerships in the smart mining business. Recently, Huawei helped to build the first in Southeast Asia potash mine in Laos.

According to the formation, the first potash mine powered by Huawei took place at the Asia-Potash International Investment mine in Khammouane province, 350 km from Laos’ capital Vientiane.

It’s revealed that the Asia-Potash International Investment is one of the largest potassium fertilizer producers in Asia with over one million tons of output expected by this year.

On the other hand, Huawei’s smart mining technology solution is the first to support Asia-Potash’s first smart mine in southeast Asia.

Huawei’s participation in mining will greatly enhance its output capacity. it will also enhance the scope of operations.

It also plans to introduce several technical upgrades that will increase productivity and safety on site. Furthermore, the communication equipment will provide fast upgrades.

Huawei said the latest equipment will enable operators to sit in offices and remote-control mining vehicles that are operating hundreds of meters below in heat, dust, and humidity.

The scheduling of potash transportation vehicles is constantly being optimized based on demand. These technologies will boast high bandwidth, and low latency communications systems to provide full coverage throughout the site.

Further input reveals that it took only two months to deploy Huawei’s Smart Mining Solution at the site. The solution includes wired and wireless (4G) networks that can provide coverage in parts too difficult to deploy fiber.

Deputy manager of the mining department of Asia-Potash International Investment, Li Shaokui said that the features of smart mining like remote control and autonomous driving depend on technologies like cloud-edge collaboration and ultra-large bandwidth. Smart mining also requires full network coverage with either fiber or 5G.

That’s not it, Zheng Longjie, a Huawei project delivery owner reveals that It’s now possible to use a smartphone anywhere at the mine.