The converged wireless platform for modern mining

One wireless fabric for the whole mine - private 5G across the site, satellite for backhaul, holding a deterministic link where distance, dust, and pit walls break everything else.

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The converged wireless platform for modern mining

Deployed in 25+ leading mining customers, including 15+ Fortune 500.

/ In the field

Celona on the mine site

Rapid-deploy mast - pole-mounted radio, no trenching

Trailer-mounted outdoor AP powering a remote pit area

Tower install - antennas, GPS timing, and PoE backhaul (Copper One)

Outdoor AP, antennas, and backhaul on a site mast (Copper One)

Representative private 5G coverage - four tower-mounted outdoor APs span a ~50 sq-mi surface mine (illustrative schematic, de-identified)

/ PHYSICAL AI

Physical AI is transforming mining

Autonomous drills, haul trucks, drones, and sensors now run the mine from a remote control room, working across a pit where wired can’t move, Wi-Fi is not strong enough, and public cellular in remote places is poor. Celona Orion offers an alternative: one deterministic wireless connectivity fabric.

5G will enable higher-bandwidth use cases, such as autonomous drills and autonomous vehicles.

- Analysys Mason, Unlock the Power of Private 5G: Top Applications and Key Business Outcomes

/ The platform

Why Celona Orion for mining?

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Coverage across the whole mine with fewer radios

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Autonomy and safety, uninterrupted

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Your wireless team, supercharged

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Secure OT, built in

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Fewer radios, lower cost per acre

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Coverage across the whole mine with fewer radios

A mine doesn't run on one technology - managing Wi-Fi, private 5G, public, and satellite as separate silos has always been the challenge.

Every radio, one fabric
- Private 5G site-wide, Wi-Fi where it fits, satellite backhaul
Private 5G blankets the operation
- Drills, haul trucks, loaders, sensors, and cameras
Pole-mounted AerFlex, solar/battery
- No trenching across rock
Seamless mobility
- Connectivity follows equipment across the site, no drops

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Autonomy and safety, uninterrupted

Autonomous drills and haul trucks close control loops in milliseconds - best-effort wireless can't guarantee it.

MicroSlicing™ guarantees latency
- Drill and haulage control take priority
Engineered for sub-100 ms latency
- Multi-Mbps per drill and per camera
Seamless handovers
- Moving equipment stays connected at speed across the site
Run autonomy and safety continuously
- Reliable enough for autonomous equipment

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Your wireless team, supercharged

A mine runs 24×7 across a sprawling, remote site - every new wireless technology piles on another tool and specialist.

Celona Orchestrator
- One agentic operations plane for the whole converged network
AerConnect
- Devices pick the right radio and roam the whole fabric
Skills codify Celona's expertise once
- For both your people and your agents
Agents run workflows at machine speed
- Humans steer via any LLM

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Secure OT, built in

A mine's most sensitive operational traffic can't ride an open, best-effort network - and trust can't be bolted on afterward.

SIM/eSIM authentication per device
- Encrypted over the air and on the wire
Data stays on-site and segmented
- Never leaves the premises
Micro-segmentation
- One compromised device can't reach the rest; OT split from IT
Integrates with existing infra
- Firewalls, NAC, and on-site networks - no overlay

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Fewer radios, lower cost per acre

Extending the wrong network across a mine means ever more radios, cabling, and trips to remote sites.

20--30× the coverage
- Fewer private 5G APs vs Wi-Fi in large outdoor spaces
Lower install cost
- No trenching or conduit across rock
AerFlex AP-only
- No server room space or local IT support needed
One converged fabric
- Private 5G and Wi-Fi together, lower cost per acre

/ Use cases

Mining operations in the new world

Celona private 5G delivers the reliable, deterministic connectivity mining depends on - from the pit face to the plant, across five operational areas.

/ USE CASE 01

Autonomous drilling & Blasting

/ USE CASE 02

Autonomous haulage & fleet Telematics

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Connected worker & safety

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Site surveillance & security

/ USE CASE 05

Aerial monitoring & inspection (drones)

/ USE CASE 01

Autonomous drilling & Blasting

Send optimized drill patterns to autonomous drills in real time

Remote, real-time control of autonomous drills from the control room

Relay live geological data (rock hardness, drilling conditions) to refine the site digital twin

Precision GPS / drill-coordinate feeds replace manual surveyor staking - tighter accuracy, less labor

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Autonomous haulage & fleet Telematics

Track and orchestrate self-driving haul trucks, loaders, and support equipment with high precision

Continuous location tracking of every asset across the site

Equipment-health and utilization telematics (e.g. CAT VIMS) streamed continuously

C-V2X between autonomous trucks and the dispatch center for coordinated haulage

RFID mineral tracking pit-to-shipment, plus real-time ore/coal grading sensors - moisture, calorific value, ash, and density

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Connected worker & safety

Tablets and handhelds for operators and supervisors with an always-on interactive UI

Worker voice / push-to-talk, real-time location, and safety monitoring - coexists with existing PTT/LMR and hilltop repeaters

5G-connected wearables - helmets and body-worn cameras with location, one-click SOS, and live video

IoT sensors for ground stability, seismic activity, air quality, and sudden weather changes

Electronic geofencing to enforce no-entry / no-exit zones in hazardous areas

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Site surveillance & security

Fixed and on-vehicle cameras with predictable high-bandwidth uplink

CCTV and GPS tracking where running fiber across the site is impractical

Encrypted-by-default traffic with SIM-based device authentication - no shared keys, no open SSIDs

Edge AI video analytics - PPE detection, intrusion detection, and face recognition

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/ USE CASE 05

Aerial monitoring & inspection (drones)

Autonomous UAV patrols with remotely set routes for site monitoring and inspection

LiDAR terrain mapping and slope / landslide monitoring

Real-time aerial video and emergency command during on-site incidents

/ Proof

Real mines. Real results.

Deployments across open-pit mining, processing, and remote sites.

Mariana Minerals - copper one copper mine & refinery (San Juan County, Utah)

The U.S. imports about half the copper it refines, while demand from data centers, the grid, EVs, and defense climbs sharply - and new mines can’t come online fast enough on legacy tooling.

The U.S. has a copper problem and a narrow window to fix it.

Turner Caldwell
Co-Founder & CEO, Mariana Minerals

Private 5G live in roughly 35 days from first conversation; replaced legacy Wi-Fi and manual data collection
Site-wide coverage - the communications backbone for MarianaOS
At go-live: fleet & asset tracking, precision drill-coordinate feeds, and remote autonomous-drill control
Foundation for autonomy-first operations: self-driving haul trucks, real-time geological data, and continuous digital-twin updates

Celona 5G LAN gives us the connectivity foundation required to run a modern mining operation - one where every asset is connected and every decision is driven by real-time data.

Turner Caldwell
Co-Founder & CEO, Mariana Minerals

Open-pit phosphate mine & processing plant (customer unnamed)

Connected-worker coverage across an open-pit mine and a steel-and-concrete processing plant on four outdoor Celona APs.

Challenge - poor connectivity for connected-worker use cases across an open-pit mine (~30 ft deep) and a steel-and-concrete processing plant; 0.6 sq miles (~290 football fields) of punishing indoor and outdoor RF
Solution - four outdoor Celona AP11 access points cover the entire site; eSIM provisioning integrated with the customer's MDM; dropped into the existing enterprise network
Devices & apps - 100+ iPads, iPhones, and Dell laptops (50 active); video conferencing (Apple FaceTime, Microsoft Teams); safety applications; web-based ArcGIS; network printing
Outcome - improved worker efficiency and safety; real-time video analysis for remote troubleshooting

Surface coal mine & processing plant (customer confidential)

A private 5G network spanning ~50 sq-mi surface coal operation, delivered from four tower-mounted outdoor APs.

Challenge - a private network was needed across the mine's northern and southern regions to carry load counts, material-movement tracking, business analytics, supervisor-to-truck communication, and vehicle/machine-health telemetry
Solution - four outdoor Celona AP-11 access points mounted on existing towers cover the operation end to end
Coverage - for coal-plant operations; for the haul road and Lowes stockpile; mining pits; and the train route running between the pits and plant
Applications - VisionLink, Ava (geofence) services, and BI-tool updates, delivered over CBRS-enabled Wi-Fi
Outcome - one private network links the entire mine for real-time load and material tracking, business analytics, supervisor-truck communications, and equipment-health monitoring

Representative open-pit deployments (Celona smart mining)

Customer(s) unnamed - deployment details kept confidential.

Open-pit mine & processing plant, 384 acres - full-site coverage with just four outdoor Celona APs; 100+ devices (iPads, iPhones, rugged laptops) with eSIM + MDM; outcome: improved efficiency and safety, real-time video for remote troubleshooting
Open-pit mine, fleet management & autonomous-vehicle readiness - coverage across pit, ops, and roadways validated by RSRP mapping (incl. near pit walls); Phase 1 pit + ops, Phase 2 leach field; targets sub-100 ms latency and ≥10 Mbps for drills; Starlink ~300/30 backhaul + WISP backup; PtP 5 GHz → 60 GHz

/ 3-year cost

Evaluating 3-year cost

Mining is an outdoor, site-wide deployment - so the numbers that matter are outdoor. Across open terrain and pit walls, a handful of high-powered outdoor 5G APs replace a dense Wi-Fi grid - pole/roof/solar-mounted, no trenching - bringing installation and 3-year cost well below Wi-Fi or competitor private cellular.

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Mining (Outdoor)

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Model your own floor - area, device mix, refresh path - in the pricing estimator. Compare Celona private 5G vs. Wi-Fi and private cellular alternatives with your real numbers.

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Mining (Outdoor)

Customize with the pricing estimator

Model your own floor - area, device mix, refresh path - in the pricing estimator. Compare Celona private 5G vs. Wi-Fi and private cellular alternatives with your real numbers.

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/ Certified devices

Certified for mining

Certified form factors and a growing ecosystem of device makers - all on Celona private 5G. Connect operators, vehicles, cameras, and sensors across the site with private 5G, while keeping the devices your teams already use.

* SIM-based access for supported devices - applies to Private 5G Gateway and Vehicle Gateway / 5G Router.

5G gateways*

Ruggedized in-vehicle 5G for haul trucks, drills, and light vehicles - brings fixed and on-vehicle cameras, IoT/telemetry sensors, and GPS asset tags onto the fabric.

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