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Innovating Mining & Construction with Advanced Sensor Technology.
ShotTrack, an Australian-based company, is committed to the design, development, and manufacturing of cutting-edge vibration analysis, Velocity of Detonation and electronic blast monitoring equipment tailored for the mining and construction sectors. Our newest series of advanced vibration monitors not only offer a cost-effective solution but are also time-synchronized, ensuring robust performance in the most challenging conditions encountered in your blast design operations.
Explore our state-of-the-art electronic monitoring equipment, featuring Velocity of Detonation Monitors (VoD) and Vibration Monitors, to elevate the precision and efficiency of your mining and construction processes.
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Most explosive columns are designed with precision. Whether that design actually performs in the ground is a different question entirely.
Velocity of detonation is one of the most direct indicators of explosive performance available to a blast crew. If the VoD is lower than expected, the explosive underperformed. If it's inconsistent across the column, energy distribution was uneven. That information is available at the time of the shot.
Most sites never capture it.
The VoD-305 is built for field conditions. At 450 grams, it's light enough to carry without thinking about it. The IP68 housing handles heat, dust, and wet conditions without issue. Single-button operation means it's ready quickly, without configuration overhead on a busy bench. GPS-synchronised timing ties every record to an exact moment, so results can be cross-referenced with vibration data and delay sequences without manual reconciliation.
It runs on standard coaxial cable up to 305 metres and connects to ShockAI for review and reporting after the shot.
The unit won't change how a blast is designed. What it does is confirm whether the design performed. That's a different kind of value, and on sites where fragmentation consistency matters, it tends to pay for itself quickly.
If your team is making design adjustments based on how a blast looked rather than how it measured, VoD monitoring is worth a closer look.
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Near-field monitoring and far-field monitoring look similar. They're answering completely different questions.
Both use vibration monitors. Both produce waveforms, peak particle velocity readings, and time-stamped records. From the outside, the setup looks almost identical.
But the purpose is different, and deploying them without understanding that distinction usually means neither job gets done well.
Near-field monitoring sits close to the blast. Its job is to capture explosive performance: how energy moved through the column, whether the explosive reacted as designed, and how the surrounding rock responded. The data feeds blast design decisions. It belongs to the engineering process.
Far-field monitoring sits at distance, typically near structures, boundaries, or community assets. Its job is to measure the ground vibration that reaches sensitive receivers and confirm it stayed within permitted limits. The data feeds compliance records and community assurance. It belongs to the regulatory process.
When sites deploy monitors without distinguishing between these two functions, the placement tends to compromise both. A monitor positioned to satisfy compliance requirements is rarely in the right location to assess explosive performance. A monitor placed for performance measurement may not represent what a nearby structure actually experienced.
The equipment can overlap. The intent shouldn't.
Before the next deployment, it's worth asking which question each monitor is actually there to answer. If the answer is unclear, the data probably will be too.
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Most vibration data problems don't start in the software or the monitor. They start in the thirty seconds before deployment when someone sets the unit down in a hurry.
A sensor placed on loose material, sitting against a rock fragment, or resting on ground that's been disturbed by traffic or previous blasting will still record. The trigger will fire, the waveform will save, and the report will generate.
Nothing flags as an error. But the readings won't reflect what the blast actually produced in undisturbed ground, and any decision made from them carries that uncertainty forward.
Good placement doesn't require extra equipment or specialist training. It requires a habit. Check the surface. Remove debris. Confirm solid contact. Take thirty seconds to verify stability before walking away.
When placement is consistent, data comparison across shots becomes meaningful. Trends emerge. Adjustments get smaller and more confident. When placement varies, results vary for the wrong reasons and investigations start in the wrong place.
If vibration readings on your site regularly raise more questions than they answer, check the placement records before assuming the monitor is the problem.
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Vibration data problems rarely announce themselves.
The monitor triggered. The file saved. The numbers look reasonable. But somewhere between the ground and the report, the record drifted from what actually happened.
We put together a short carousel covering five of the most common reasons vibration data goes wrong before the blast even fires. None of them are rare. Most of them are fixable with a checklist and two minutes of attention before deployment.
If any of these sound familiar on your site, the data issue probably isn't the monitor.
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Big things are coming from ShotTrack in 2026 -- and we want to give you an early look.
We have put together a preview of what we are releasing this year. Our focus is blast optimisation and strata management -- giving drill and blast teams the data they need to improve fragmentation, manage energy distribution, and make smarter decisions on every shot.
From velocity of detonation measurement to vibration monitoring and our cloud-based ShockAi platform, everything we build is aimed at helping operations get more out of every blast -- not just tick a compliance box.
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Blast data changes the tone of decisions. Not always in the ways people expect.
When information is incomplete or arrives late, discussions on site tend to fill the gap with experience, instinct, and memory. That's not always wrong.
Experienced crews make good calls. But it's harder to build on, harder to defend, and harder to transfer when crews change or conditions shift.
When data is consistent and accessible close to the time of the blast, something quieter happens. The conversation slows down. Assumptions get tested against evidence rather than experience alone. The question shifts from what probably happened to what actually happened, and the next decision gets made on firmer ground.
That shift matters beyond the bench. Regulators respond differently when records are clean, repeatable, and timestamped accurately. Community concerns about vibration are easier to address when the data is credible and the explanation is clear. Leadership gains visibility into blast performance without needing to step into technical detail.
None of this comes from monitoring alone. It comes from monitoring that fits the way crews actually work, data that arrives when it's still useful, and workflows simple enough that they get followed every time.
Better information doesn't complicate the job. It removes the uncertainty that was already slowing it down.
If your site is still making blast decisions from incomplete records, the gap usually isn't effort. It's workflow.
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Most post-blast analysis happens too late to be useful.
Data gets collected, loggers get retrieved, files get downloaded, and by the time anyone reviews the results, two or three more shots have already fired.
The crew has moved on. The conditions that shaped that blast are gone. Any adjustment that should have happened before the next hole was drilled didn't happen, because the information wasn't there yet.
The window for useful post-blast analysis is short. Not days. Hours.
When vibration and VoD data is accessible quickly, the conversation changes.
Foremen can ask better questions before the next shot. Drill and blast engineers can spot a pattern before it becomes a trend. A result that looks unusual gets investigated while the context is still fresh, not reconstructed from memory a week later.
This isn't about technology for its own sake. It's about timing. The same data that drives a useful decision at hour two becomes background noise by day three.
If your team regularly reviews blast data after the next shot has already fired, the monitoring workflow is working against you. The equipment captured what happened. The process just isn't making use of it.
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Peak vector sum is useful. It's also easy to misread.
PVS combines the three axes of vibration measurement into a single value. For compliance reporting and occupational exposure assessments, that's exactly what you need. One number, one comparison, done.
The problem starts when PVS becomes the only number people look at.
Blasting generates directional energy. How that energy moves through the ground depends on geology, delay timing, explosive performance, and stand-off distance from the monitor. A single combined value won't show you any of that. It collapses directional behaviour into a summary and, in doing so, strips out the patterns that often explain why a blast behaved the way it did.
Engineers investigating a fragmentation problem or trying to understand structural response from a nearby structure need to look at the individual waveforms, not just the PVS output. The shape of the trace, the dominant frequency, the relative magnitude of each axis: that's where the useful information lives.
PVS has a clear role. Use it for what it was designed for.
But if a result looks clean on PVS and something still doesn't add up on site, go back to the raw waveform. The answer is usually there.
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Big myth: Compliance monitoring and performance monitoring are the same job.
Reality: They measure different things, and confusing them costs more than most teams realise.
Compliance monitoring answers one question: did vibration stay within the permitted limit? That's a regulatory requirement, and it matters. But it doesn't tell you whether the explosive performed as designed. It doesn't explain why fragmentation shifted, why the muck pile looked wrong, or why the next bench behaved differently to the last one.
Performance monitoring answers a separate question: did the blast do what we expected it to do?
When sites treat these as identical, the data gets filed and the insight gets lost. Crews hit the limit, tick the box, and move on. Meanwhile, patterns that could explain inconsistent results go unread because nobody was looking for them.
The two types of monitoring can share the same equipment and the same workflow. What changes is the question being asked of the data.
Compliance tells you whether you stayed inside the boundary. Performance tells you what happened inside the ground. Both matter. But they need to be treated as separate disciplines, not the same one wearing two names.
If your vibration data only comes out when a regulator asks for it, you're getting compliance. You're not getting performance.
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Some of the most expensive problems on a site don’t come from failures.
They come from adjustments made too quickly.
After a difficult blast, the pressure to act is immediate. Spacing changes. Timing is altered. Decking is reconsidered. The team moves fast because production cannot wait.
Fast action feels productive, but it can also move the design away from what actually worked. If the original issue came from explosive behaviour, storage condition, or unexpected ground response, changing the pattern treats the symptom instead of the cause.
Over several blasts, those corrections stack. The pattern drifts further from the original design logic and performance becomes harder to predict.
Careful measurement slows that drift. When the behaviour of the blast is understood before changes are made, adjustments stay small and purposeful. Instead of reacting to outcomes, teams respond to evidence.
The difference shows up weeks later. One operation keeps redesigning. Another stabilises and fine tunes.
Speed matters in mining, but direction matters more. Acting on clear information often saves more time than acting immediately.
When a blast surprises the team, the first step should not always be change. Sometimes it should be understanding.
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