Kioni watches your underground operations in real time — detecting hazardous behaviour, alerting your safety officer in under 3 seconds, and generating your DMRE compliance reports automatically.
South Africa's underground mines record dozens of fatalities every year. Many are preventable. A Section 54 stoppage can halt your operation for 5–14 days — costing a mid-tier mine R25 million or more in lost production per event.
The problem is not negligence. It is visibility. No safety officer can monitor eight underground sections simultaneously across a 12-hour shift without missing something.
Current systems record what already happened. Kioni prevents what is about to.
Cameras record. They do not detect. A hazard is only caught if someone is watching at exactly that moment, on exactly that feed.
DMRE reports, Section 54 logs, safety statistics — compiled manually over 2–3 days every week. Time your safety team should spend preventing incidents, not documenting them.
Most safety systems go dark when Eskom does. Your underground operation does not stop during Stage 4. Neither does Kioni.
International platforms were built for Australian mines with stable power and different regulations. DMRE compliance is an afterthought. For us, it is the product.
Kioni runs at the edge — AI inference happens on-site, not in the cloud. Your data stays at your mine.
ATEX-rated AI cameras monitor your underground sections continuously — every shift, every zone, every hour.
Kioni's AI identifies hazardous behaviour in real time: PPE violations, proximity risks, zone breaches, fire, smoke, and fatigue.
Your safety officer receives an instant push notification — location, hazard type, severity, and a 10-second video clip. Under 3 seconds.
Weekly DMRE-format compliance reports generate automatically every Monday. What took 3 days now takes minutes.
Kioni's models are trained exclusively on South African underground mine footage — not generic global data.
Hard hats, hi-vis vests, safety boots, and gloves — detected per worker, per zone, in real time across every shift.
MHSA SECTION 9Workers within unsafe distance of LHDs, haul trucks, conveyors, and drill rigs — the leading cause of mining fatalities.
TMM COMPLIANCEUnauthorised personnel entering blast zones, ore pass areas, and active excavation sites — detected instantly.
SECTION 54 PREVENTIONEarly-stage fire and smoke detection in conveyor drives, electrical rooms, and confined spaces underground.
EARLY WARNINGWorker falls and structural anomalies detected in camera-visible areas. Immediate alert to surface control room.
FALL OF GROUNDPose estimation and behaviour analysis flags dangerous fatigue on night shifts — when risk is highest and oversight is lowest.
NIGHT SHIFT SAFETYFour structural differences that no global platform can replicate without starting over.
Kioni runs AI inference on-site on NVIDIA Jetson edge hardware. When Eskom cuts power and your internet drops, Kioni keeps detecting, buffers every event locally, and syncs automatically when connectivity restores. Raw video never leaves your mine — POPIA compliance is structural, not a policy document.
Section 54 risk scoring, automated incident logs, and weekly reports formatted for DMRE submission are built into Kioni from Day 1. Not a future roadmap item. Not a localisation project. The core product — because we understand what MHSA inspectors are looking for.
We install everything, run for 90 days, and present a documented ROI report showing real detections and the rand value of incidents prevented. You sign an annual contract after you have seen Kioni work at your specific mine. No upfront cost. Hardware removed at no charge if you choose not to continue.
Kioni's models are trained on footage from South African underground mines — the dust conditions, lighting, equipment types, and PPE standards specific to your environment. Every new deployment makes the AI more accurate for all existing clients. No global platform has this data.
We believe in Kioni enough to install it, run it, and prove it — before asking for a single rand. The pilot is not a limited version. It is the full product at your mine.
All tiers include the 90-day free pilot. You pay after you have seen results.
Junior miners · Single-section ops
Mid-tier PGM · Manganese ops
Large mid-tier · Multi-operation
Every tier includes the 90-day free pilot. Annual contracts with CPI escalation. Hardware included in the annual fee. No hidden implementation costs.
Kioni is a product of SafeguardXperience (SGX) — a South African AI company that builds operational intelligence systems for high-stakes industries. We sit at the intersection of engineering and adoption: building AI that works in production, and ensuring the people using it can actually trust it.
We are based in Pretoria. Our team combines underground mining safety expertise with production AI engineering. We build offline-first because we live in South Africa. We build for DMRE compliance because we know the regulations. We stay through adoption because handing over tools is not enough.
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