Complete solution
One sensor kit, one platform, a complete picture of your haul roads.
DustScout sits on the truck, listens to the road and streams intelligence into a central control panel. Not just dust readings, but an operational narrative for every trip: where dust spikes, where corrugation emerges, where gradients bite and where road temperature silently increases risk.
Everything you need to monitor, analyse and optimise your haul road operations.
Truck-mounted sensing
A compact DustScout unit captures dust, vibration, speed and road temperature in real time, mapped precisely to the road. Designed for harsh mining environments with local processing and buffering to protect data integrity through intermittent connectivity.
AI-driven analytics
Data streams into Sentinel's cloud and becomes interpretable scores, segments and recommendations operations can use immediately. Machine-learning models detect corrugation patterns, gradient issues and risk trends automatically.
Actionable playbooks
DustScout suggests watering, grading and road interventions where they will have the highest impact, backed by a transparent data trail. Every recommendation is traceable to specific road segments and conditions.
System architecture
How DustScout works.
Three deployment types, one data spine. DustScout Fleet instruments the vehicles that make — and suffer — the most dust; DustScout Patrol extends coverage to every other road on site; DustScout Sentry stands fixed watch over the places that never move but always matter.
FIG. 01 / SENSOR DEPLOYMENT
SENSOR PLACEMENT — HAUL TRUCK SUITE (LEFT) · LIGHT VEHICLE DEPLOYMENT (RIGHT)
DustScout Fleet — Haul Truck Sensor Suite
TYPE A · FLEET · CAT 793F / KOMATSU 960E CLASS · 2 s SAMPLING · DAYS OF BUFFERCockpit Monitoring Unit
In-cab, cockpit-mounted
- · Gases
- · Gyro (pitch / roll)
- · Speed (km/h)
- · GPS (lat / lng)
The truck's brain — motion, position and cab-side environment, wired to the antenna for live backhaul.
Tail Environmental Sensor
Rear chassis, road-facing
- · Particulate matter (PM2.5, PM10)
- · Ambient temp (°C)
- · Humidity (%)
- · Road temp (°C)
Rides where the dust actually happens — the environmental ground truth behind every reading.
Tray Dust Monitor
Tray-mounted, high point
- · Dust suspension (PM concentration)
Watches the suspended plume the truck generates and travels through.
Antenna
Roof line
- · 4G/LTE backhaul
- · GNSS reception
Live telemetry where there's coverage; on-board buffering where there isn't.
DustScout Patrol — Light Vehicle Deployment
TYPE B · PATROL · UTES / GRADERS / SERVICE VEHICLES · PORTABLEPortable Sensor Box
Load tray, strap-mounted
- · Integrated gases
- · Gyro
- · Speed
- · GPS
- · Antenna
A self-contained kit that turns any light vehicle into a roaming survey unit — no permanent install.
Towbar Environmental Sensor
Towbar, road-facing
- · Particulate matter (PM2.5, PM10)
- · Ambient temp (°C)
- · Humidity (%)
- · Road temp (°C)
- · Dust suspension
The same environmental ground truth as the haul-truck TES, mounted in minutes.
DustScout Sentry — Portable Mast Deployment
TYPE C · SENTRY · CRUSHERS / BOUNDARIES / CAMPS · PORTABLE · RAPID DEPLOYMENT
SENSOR PLACEMENT — PORTABLE MAST ELEVATION · SMU / PWR / ANT
Sentry Mast Unit
Mast-top, weather-shielded · telescopic 2–6 m
- · Particulate matter (PM2.5, PM10)
- · Dust suspension
- · Ambient temp (°C)
- · Humidity (%)
- · Calibrated sampling inlet at breathing-zone height
- · Fixed GPS reference
The fixed point of truth. Stands watch where things never move but always matter — crusher zones, site boundaries, workshops, camps — anchoring the mobile fleet's picture with continuous reference data.
Power Station
Ground-level, cable-managed to mast
- · LiFePO₄ battery (solar or mains)
- · 4G/LTE backhaul
- · On-board buffering
- · Power management
An integrated power and data hub on a foldable tripod base with ground anchors — rapid deployment on any terrain, self-sufficient at the fence line.
Sentry anchors the mobile picture — and covers the community-exposure obligations your licence conditions care about, from breathing-zone to mast height.
All three deployments stream into the same cloud pipeline: readings are geo-tagged, segmented into named road sections and converted into dust, condition and risk scores — one consistent data spine from the biggest haul truck to the smallest service ute.
Capabilities
What DustScout delivers.
SEC. 02 / WHAT IT DELIVERS
Live dust severity along route
Real-time dust visualization mapped to every segment of your haul roads. Colour-coded segments show low, medium and high dust zones with precise measurements.
Corrugation, gradient & pothole alerts
Automated detection of road surface issues — instant alerts for corrugation patterns, steep gradients and pothole clusters that impact fleet safety and efficiency.
Session and shift level insights
Aggregate data by operator sessions and shifts. Compare performance across time periods, identify trends and track improvements in road condition and dust management.
ESG-friendly reporting
Compliance-ready reports with transparent data trails. Export summaries for ESG documentation, incident reviews and regulatory submissions.
Site, truck, session, trip views
Navigate operations through four intuitive lenses — from site-wide heatmaps to individual trip replays with full context.
Real-time control room dashboards
High-contrast, high-density visualizations designed for control-room environments. Monitor multiple trucks, routes and alerts simultaneously on large displays.
See the full sensor suite on your own fleet.
We'll walk you through deployment, coverage and the control panel with live telemetry from real operations.