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Born and raised in a mining town in India with a family history of Geologists, Survey & Planning Engineers, and Environmental Academics involved with India’s Mining School, Mr. Sam G. Bose got early exposure to the mining industry from his childhood. After spending more than a decade in the technology industry across a range of companies including ARM, Motorola, and Deloitte the entrepreneurial bug bit him and since then he has been involved with building technology companies.
In 2014 Sam founded IntelliSense.io with a vision to transform asset-intensive industries from analogue to the digital world by deploying Internet of Things (IOT) devices, cloud computing, and AI technologies to connect the physical world and drive data-based decision making for both humans and machines. The first industry where the organization deployed its technology, was in semiconductor manufacturing. It improved energy and operating efficiency in a semiconductor fabrication plant, which is mostly a fixed feed operation.
Soon Sam and his team realized IntelliSense.io technology adds the most value in operating environments where process variability is the norm and is a structural characteristic of the industry.
This eventually led the company to Mining where it found an industry built on geological uncertainty of the ore body and its characteristics. The impact of this uncertainty from the ore body touches every part of a mining operation. When coupled with inhospitable operating environments which increase environmental risk, it creates further uncertainty across the entire ore processing and metal recovery operation.
To make matters even more challenging, Mining operations collect a lot of granular data from sensors mounted on equipment and vehicles. However, there is a lot of noise in the data from real-world exposure which results in limited use of these datapoints in daily decision making.
Sam and his team soon realized that they have also found an industry that will play a strategic role in the Clean Energy Transition. Faced with increasing resource scarcity, spiralling demand, and an aging workforce it’s also an industry that is an ideal candidate for technology- driven transformation.
Helping in Mining Operations
Recently, IntelliSense.io has developed a portfolio of process optimization applications that transcends the mine and plant with a sole focus on increasing net metal production from existing operations undertaken in the most sustainable, efficient, and safe way.
The organization’s technology comprises real-time process optimisation software applications powered by digital twins of mining processes and equipment that predicts process performance, simulates future operating conditions, and recommends optimum ways to run the Mining operations at all times. The applications are used by operational decision-makers like metallurgists, mine planners, geoscientists and executed through front-line operators and dispatchers by integrating with control systems and dispatch systems enabling contextual decision making.
Currently, IntelliSense.io technology has been deployed in some of the largest mining operations in the world across 6 countries, 28 sites, and a range of commodities including Copper, Iron Ore, Platinum, Gold, and Lithium.
Making an Impact
Sam has a passion to use his skills, experience, and knowledge to solve the biggest problems the world is facing nowadays. There is nothing better than building a business as a means to solve the big hairy problems that the world is facing.
Sam believes, the greatest challenge of our generation is climate change and everyone urgently needs to find ways and means to reduce the earth’s climate degradation. Considering today’s fossil fuel powered energy system drives three quarters of global emissions, there is an urgent need for energy transition towards a renewable source. Recent geopolitical events shows the old fossil fuel powered system is a threat to energy security of the world. Moving from a fossil fuel-powered world to a renewable/clean energy-driven one will reduce CO2 emissions dramatically and bring energy independence to countries across the globe.
However, to deliver on our clean energy future, companies need a huge number of metals and materials which the world simply doesn’t have. This requires the creation of a new materials and metals value chain with a focus on improving the efficiency of metal extraction & refining and increasing metal recycling to create a new metal supply mix.
Changing Mining Operations: Autonomous Operations
“I think possibly our greatest achievement is bringing a team together combining mining operating experience with software engineering and data science expertise who were prepared to challenge the norm, be ambitious in reimagining mining operations through our products and an industry team able to build trust and confidence with our customers to enable that change.”- says Sam. “This team has then gone out and deployed our technology in global mining operations effecting that change .”-he adds further. As an organization, IntelliSense.io has built the first-ever real-time process optimization product that covers the entire mining value chain with an ability to predict future process performance, simulate the impact of different operating conditions including ore bodies and recommend optimum variables to run operation in an autonomous mode at all times. Uniquely, the product uses.
Scientific AI (combining physics and machine learning models to characterise mining processes and equipment’s) embedded in a real-time data intensive software application. It covers workflows for different user types redefining the way mining operations for the future are run.
Sam is extremely proud of this and the fact that IntelliSense.io products are being used in some of the largest mines on the planet and can guide operations in the face of extreme uncertainty.
Lastly, the organization prides itself on customer success and considers every deployment as an ongoing partnership between the mine site and IntelliSense.io, where its goal is the creation of continuous value delivery for that site.
Sustainability through Advanced Technology is the Key
IntelliSense.io products drive efficiency and sustainability in operations across the Metals value chain. The company is exploring and integrating computer/machine vision, autonomous drones, and robotics into its solution. The objective is to improve safety for humans operating in risky environments like Mining using technologies like the above.
Additionally, the company is partnering with Industrial majors to decarbonize the Mining value chain and as a result, work in carbon management and carbon reduction is also of strategic importance to it.
Under Sam’s leadership, IntelliSense.io always focuses on deploying the best-in-class technology that can solve the problem at hand. The team’s motivation starts from the type of problems that the organization aims to solve and understanding the problems in depth specifically caring about the users who are experiencing those problems is key to building innovative solutions which results in a motivated and productive team.
Picture of the Future
Sam believes the technology platform and process optimization apps that his organization has built are just the starting point. Its vision is to power the circular economy for metals and create a new metal supply mix for the world that would drive new materials design with a focus on reclamation and transition the world from the current use and throw consumption model.
In an electrified world, IntelliSense.io technology will play its part in providing the metals required to make the clean energy-powered world a reality and reduce the climate impact.
