GroundProbe and Nitro Consult Join Orica Digital Solutions

GroundProbe is now part of Orica Digital Solutions, a newly formed business stream of Orica – the world’s largest provider of commercial explosive and blasting systems to the mining, quarrying, oil and gas and construction industries.

Bringing together GroundProbe and Nitro Consult – an expert in highly sensitive blasting, inner-city rock excavation, rock engineering and blast-measurement and control technology; Orica Digital Solutions is dedicated to providing geotechnical monitoring solutions to the global mining and civil construction industry.

The collaboration leverages on all three businesses’ strong history in developing innovative solutions and their core focus on safety.

GroundProbe and Nitro Consult will continue to service and meet the needs of the global mining and civil construction industry as individual businesses.

Designed, developed and powered by GroundProbe, MonitorIQ is the first product launched by Orica Digital Solutions.

MonitorIQ is a data aggregation software that provides users with a holistic visualisation of all sensor data across a mine site for accurate analysis of geotechnical and environmental conditions.

By bringing all sensor data into one platform geotechnical events or changes can be forecast and ongoing trends can be identified.

MonitorIQ aims to bring blasting and geotechnical stability monitoring closer together.

With MonitorIQ, Orica Digital Solutions offers the industry the confidence to safely execute blasts while maintaining the integrity of surrounding pit walls with its integration of GroundProbe’s capabilities alongside BlastIQ and Nitro Consult.