The Road That Came With Proof
Customer
Canyon Resources
Sector
Mining · Bauxite · Open-Cast
Location
Minim Martap, Cameroon · Central Africa
Scope
Fleet management, haul route optimisation, production reporting
Cognecto modules
Boson + Cortex · Mining solution
Status
Active deployment
The Challenge
Vast concession area. Spreadsheet-era visibility.
The Minim Martap deposit covers more than 200 km² of Cameroonian terrain — one of the largest undeveloped bauxite resources in the world. Bringing this concession into operational production required a fleet management and production reporting system capable of operating across this geographic scale, with intermittent connectivity, in a remote Central African operating environment.
Conventional fleet management systems either required heavy local IT infrastructure (impractical at this remoteness) or extensive customisation (timelines incompatible with development pace). Canyon needed real-time fleet visibility, haul route monitoring, and production reporting — quickly, without months of setup, and with operational reliability in challenging conditions.
- Concession area exceeds typical fleet management deployment scale
- Remote Cameroonian terrain — limited local IT infrastructure available
- Intermittent connectivity — system must operate with edge buffering
- Fleet expansion ongoing — system must scale without re-architecture
- Production reporting needed real-time, not end-of-month reconciliation
The Cognecto Solution
Active in 7 days. Edge-resilient by design.
Cognecto deployed Boson with cloud-hosted infrastructure, edge gateways at the mine, and satellite-resilient communication architecture. Within 7 days of agreement, the system was actively tracking the haul fleet across the full 200+ km² concession — real-time positions, haul cycles, fuel consumption, and production reporting feeding into a single dashboard accessible from anywhere with internet access.
7-Day Go-Live
Cloud-hosted infrastructure means no local IT build — system live within a week of agreement.
Edge Resilience
Edge gateways buffer events during connectivity interruptions — full record syncs once link restores.
Concession-Scale Geofencing
Operational boundaries, haul routes, dump points, and restricted areas all configured at 200+ km² scale.
Haul Route Optimisation
Real-time visibility into cycle times, queue congestion, and route efficiency — bottlenecks flagged live.
Production Reporting
Automated production reports per shift — exportable to corporate reporting and investor formats.
Africa-Optimised Architecture
Designed for high-temperature edge environments and satellite-only connectivity at remote sites.
The Impact
A development-pace deployment for a development-pace operation.
Canyon Resources got the operational visibility it needed at the development pace it needed — without the months of integration work that conventional fleet management platforms required. The concession is actively monitored, the haul fleet is optimised, and production reporting flows automatically to corporate and stakeholder dashboards.
200+ km²
Concession area under continuous monitoring
7 days
From agreement to live operational deployment
Real-time
Fleet, production, and route visibility
Edge-resilient
Continues operating through connectivity interruptions
Scalable
Fleet expansion without re-architecture
Cloud-hosted
No local IT infrastructure required
"Bringing a 200 square kilometre bauxite concession into operational reporting traditionally takes months of integration work. Cognecto had us live in seven days — with real-time haul fleet visibility, automated production reports, and edge-resilient operation that survived our connectivity reality. That timeline matched our development pace."
Canyon Resources · Minim Martap Bauxite Project · Cameroon