their unique spectral signatures; robotics, which allows for the exploration of dangerous mine areas without the need for onsite humans; and an underground positioning project to more accurately position both mining machines and personnel.“We’ve also done some work on recapturing low-grade heat and converting that to electricity,” he adds.“How do you capture some of that energy and put it back into the system instead of just exhausting it?” Then there is quantum sensing, an advanced technology that improves the accuracy of how to measure, navigate, study, explore, see, and interact with the world by sensing changes in motion, and electric and magnetic fields. “There are one or two other places in the world that attach quantum sensors to robots,” Peckham states.“Hopefully, we’re about to become one of them. They have huge capabilities for detecting and doing things underground that nobody else brings to the table. And at DICE we’re applying it in ways that they don’t normally apply, because that’s what we’re good at doing. So, it’s an interesting mix between cutting-edge technology and how to apply it in the real world.” SASK POLYTECH’S CHALLENGE Going forward, Suru says that Sask Polytech’s 9 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 11, ISSUE 10 SASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNIC
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