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Canary Waves

Voice-to-data safety intelligence for mining and quarrying

Canary Waves turns the two-way radio traffic already running across a site into real-time safety intelligence, surfacing collision risks, flagged hazards, and missed protocols to leadership before they reach the incident report. It runs passively on existing infrastructure, with no change to frontline operations.

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A live mine site with Canary Waves overlays: voice intelligence monitoring 24 channels, a collision risk flagged on a haul road, a missed call-sign protocol alert, and a traffic summary of active channels, transmissions, and risk events.

A likely snapshot of your data

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holding calls cross the radio in a single week, mapping the bottlenecks that quietly cap throughput.

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equipment overheating warnings in a week, clustering on the same units hours before a failure.

Canary Waves operational analysis

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safety hazards flagged over the air in a week: lightning holds, rock, and debris on the haul roads.

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The signal is already there

Every shift, your radios hold data no one is reading.

Two-way radio has not fundamentally changed since the 1970s. What you can do with it has. The intelligence that prevents the next incident is already in your daily radio traffic. It has just never been captured, structured, or put in front of the people who can act on it. Without it, teams on high-risk worksites stay reactive to operational errors and safety violations.

Illustrated yellow two-way radios on a worksite, representing the radio traffic Canary Waves turns into safety intelligence.
50+ yearsof two-way radio your crews rely on every shift.
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Mining's hardest problems run through haulage

The deaths, the downtime, and the lost tonnes trace to one place. So does the radio.

Three problems, one place: haulage. Trucks moving, holding, and passing each other on a congested site, all coordinated over the radio. The warnings are already there, every shift. Canary Waves listens.

Powered haulage, mining's deadliest risk

Light vehicle coming down the decline, watch out everyone.

Powered haulage kills more miners than anything else, and the named root causes are poor communication and traffic management. That is the radio. The proximity calls, the blind declines, the near-misses before a crash, roughly 300 behind every serious injury, all said out loud and never logged.

  • Proximity and near-miss language flagged live
  • Traffic risk concentrated at the worst declines
  • The near-misses behind every serious injury, recorded
  • Evidence for your surface mobile equipment plan

ForSafety managers and crews.

The breakdowns you could have heard coming

Last of four holding, and she's running hot.

A haul truck down costs $5,000 to $20,000 an hour, and a major failure can reach $2 million in a day. Almost none of it comes from nowhere. The same units are called in overheating for hours first, idling in a queue with no airflow, and the warning reaches the radio before the fault code.

  • Repeat overheating mentions clustered by unit
  • Thermal strain building under idle and load
  • Cooling faults named days before a breakdown
  • The spoken warning ahead of the telematics alert

ForMaintenance and reliability leads.

The lost tonnes no one is counting

Still holding. Hold at the decline.

Cost per tonne is won or lost in haulage, and congestion is the silent tax. The same holding calls cross the radio hundreds of times a week, same declines, same dump points, every shift. Idle trucks burn fuel and move no ore, and those calls map exactly where a fix pays for itself.

  • Holding calls mapped by location and shift
  • Bottlenecks pinpointed at declines and dump points
  • Route diversions and reroutes counted over time
  • Idle time turned into a number you can act on

ForOperations leads and dispatch.

Communication and culture

How your crews communicate is a safety signal of its own.

The same radio traffic carries the culture of the operation: whether protocols are followed, whether the tone is steady, and whether the channels are being used the way they should. These are leading indicators of safety, and they stay invisible to every other system.

A two-way radio with a protocol breach flagged in its live radio traffic.

Protocol breaches you can hear

Many of the most common breaches are spoken before they are seen. Light vehicles passing a haul truck against protocol, calls skipped, procedures cut short. Each one raises risk and adds machine wear and delay. Canary Waves flags the breach in the traffic, so it can be corrected before it becomes an incident.

A two-way radio reading crew tone from the voice on the channel.

Tone as a safety signal

Radio tone tells you when a crew is under strain. The shift from steady, professional calls to sharp or unprofessional language tracks with fatigue, distraction, and rising risk. Measuring positive against negative communication gives leaders a read on culture and radio discipline they have never had.

A channel network map showing conduct across radio channels, with some flagged.

Conduct on the channels

Harmful behavior often hides on the secondary channels, where no supervisor is listening. Abusive or bullying exchanges wear down morale and safety and rarely reach leadership. Canary Waves surfaces conduct across every channel, and shows which channels are earning their place and which should be retired.

The same radio traffic also surfaces

Hazard detectionEquipment communication and collision preventionContractor oversight and operational KPI monitoringEquipment health monitoringEnvironmental response: spills, dust, ventilationMultilingual transcription and translationCompliance automationSafety culture analyticsAI-powered training with real-world scenariosAI communication analyticsSafety monitoring technologyMining productivity analyticsVoice analytics for industrial operationsProactive maintenanceNon-compliance flaggingSafety coaching and continuous improvement

From radio chatter to intelligence your team can act on.

No new hardware, no new habits. Canary Waves works on the radio infrastructure you already run.

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Capture

Connect to your existing radio infrastructure on mining and quarrying sites. No new hardware, and no change to how crews communicate on the ground.

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Transcribe

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), speech recognition for mining, converts radio chatter into voice-to-text analytics in near real time, tuned to your site's slang, equipment names, and terminology.

03

Analyze

Machine learning for safety surfaces hazard detection and hazard identification, industrial risk detection, operational inefficiencies, and equipment stress, with predictive safety analytics and predictive safety intelligence flagging early warning indicators before they become incidents.

04

Report

Structured safety reports, decision-ready summaries, and alerts reach the right people at the right time, supporting compliance automation while something can still be done.

Why teams adopt it

Built for the operations where a missed signal can cost a life.

Real-time communication monitoring that earns its place on site, because it asks nothing of the people doing the work, and it turns everyday radio traffic into innovation in operational safety and performance improvement through AI.

Flagged while crews are still in motion

Risks reach you during the shift, not in the end-of-shift debrief or the post-incident review. That is when a safety manager can still act on them.

Zero change for your frontline

Operators keep working exactly as they do today. No new devices, no new habits, no training rollout. Canary Waves runs quietly in the background on infrastructure that already exists.

One clear picture across every shift

Leadership gets a single operational narrative, not three conflicting shift reports or 400 lines of transcript. Just the signals that matter, by location, shift, and pattern.

AI safety intelligence for mining and quarrying operations, and an industrial AI solution for safety managers, operations leads, and digital transformation teams across heavy industry.

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Preventable should mean prevented.

The founding belief behind Canary Waves

Canary Waves is a KB&G co-founded product, proven in early MVP pilots on real mine sites alongside site teams and safety professionals, and built as high-impact safety and compliance tech for heavy-industry operations.

Questions we hear from safety and ops leaders.

What is your radio traffic trying to tell you right now?

Book a 30-minute walkthrough. We will show you the exact signals Canary Waves would surface from a typical shift, mapped to your site, your safety priorities, and your reporting structure.

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