INVESTMENTS AND BENEFITS IN COMPUTER SUPPORTED SYSTEMS FOR REMOTE MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT IN REAL TIME

Contemporary computer supported technologies unify a multitude of functions, from geological explorations, through planning, design, mining, auxiliary and logistic activities, monitoring, analysis, decision making to the real time management. This approach requires the information-management systems with a multi-level hierarchy structure, with high monitoring-management efficiency. Accepting the challenges of time, the Serbian mining took the starting position in this technological game timely, with some good ideas and projects, but without efficient realization. There is an opposite example however, in 2000, a computer system for remote monitoring and management in the real time at the "Majdan III" open pit mine was built. Fourteen years of continual monitoring of this systems operation and the quantity of technical and technological data on its functioning, has provided a reliable and objective depicting of the monitoring-management efficiency, investments, costs and benefits. This paper presents the actual results achieved with this system and comparatively analyze investments and benefits for the similar systems in coal and non-ferrous metal mines.