Real-time material measurement on the conveyor, enabling crusher & process-feed optimization

How Solo Fits in the Value Chain

The conveyor is your earliest and most consistent control point — and Solo turns it into a powerful source of real-time process intelligence. Solo gives you the insight to:

• Catch problems early — detecting oversize, excessive fines, or unexpected material before it affects crushers or mills.
• Protect equipment by identifying sudden feed changes, out-of-spec loads, or conditions that could cause overloads or stalls.
• Stabilize throughput by ensuring consistent, predictable feed into downstream processes.
• Improve energy efficiency by maintaining uniform fragmentation and reducing grinding variability.
• Enhance ore control and blending with continuous insights on colour, ore type, and contamination.
• Validate blast performance by comparing conveyor PSD trends over time.
• Enable intelligent automation through alarms, diversions, or process adjustments triggered by live data.

What Solo Does

Solo is an autonomous vision system that continuously measures material moving on your conveyor, delivering fast, accurate data for process control.

Solo provides:

• Full particle size distribution (PSD) updated every few seconds
• Shape and uniformity metrics for fragmentation quality
• Oversize identification with automated alarms or rejection triggers
• Trend analysis to monitor feed stability and crusher/mill performance
• Colour-based detection of ore type shifts, dilution, or contamination
• Real-time data integration with control systems (Modbus TCP / OPC UA) for closed-loop control
• 24/7 autonomous operation with low maintenance requirements

Solo Options: Choose the Capability You Need

Solo is available in two configurations, both built on the same hardware platform. Start with the essentials — or unlock full analysis capabilities from day one. Upgrading between versions requires no hardware changes.

Our analysis systems are designed to be user-friendly, small footprint, economical, and easy to install.

Proven Performance

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Solo systems are an integral part of our operations

The Solo systems are an integral part of our operations for both the milling and flotation circuits. The cameras allow us to understand the incoming ore’s particle size and color characteristics, to track the impact of these properties through SAG milling and flotation, and to provide real-time control inputs to the operators of these circuits. WipWare helped us troubleshoot and retrofit old versions of their technology and custom built a software algorithm to process camera color information which was specifically tailored to our use case. 

Adam Jordens

Taseko Gibraltar Mine

Efficiency and productivity for our metallurgical process

WipWare technology allows us to measure, monitor and control, in real time, the distribution of size, shape, uniformity and volume of iron ore that feeds autogenous grinding. Knowing the impact of the different fractions of fed ore size improves the performance of the AG mill, increasing energy efficiency in mills, process productivity and profit.

Rubí Enciso Pérez

Peña Colorada

A vital piece of equipment

WipWare’s Solo system is a vital piece of equipment for us, used in our SAG advanced control strategy. It helps us determine the incoming % of fines which we use to compensate with fresh feed in order to avoid SAG overloading and underloading, which would throw us out of the maximum efficiency grinding point.

Daniel Silva

Minera Los Pelambres

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Typical Applications

• Crusher-gap control and oversize diversion
• Feed-stock uniformity monitoring to stabilise SAG/AG mills
• Contamination or dilution detection (colour/texture)
• Real-time process control (belt speed/throughput adjustments)
• Quality control of feed material and process optimisation