Radio dispatch for resources
Radio dispatch for mining, oil and gas operations
omnicore Enterprise Dispatch Management System connects one control room with crews and remote sites thousands of kilometers away across mining, oil and gas and forestry, with dam, emergency and blast alarms, geofencing and live location tracking built for site safety.
Dam, emergency and blast alarms
Dedicated alarm modes for mine sites, raised from a console or from the field.
Live location and geofencing
Every radio on a live map, with an alert the moment a zone is breached.
Rapid Recall
Replay any incoming transmission in seconds, without asking a crew to repeat it.
One control room, every site
Dispatch every mine, port and plant from one console, however far apart.
Radio for resources
One radio management system, from exploration to processing
Mining, oil and gas, forestry and other resource operations run on radio. Work stretches from exploration and extraction through to transportation and processing, often across large, remote sites. Control room staff and radio operators need to reach operations and maintenance staff, supervisors, workboats, helicopters and emergency crews, and those teams are rarely all on the same network.
The answer is to bring every available communication channel into one simple, intuitive radio management system that is reliable enough to run around the clock and built to improve safety and efficiency. One remote control room can dispatch every site, however far apart they are.
omnicore runs on the desktop in the control room, on a laptop for supervisors, and on tablets and phones in the field, so dispatch goes wherever your people are.
Built for every resources sector
- Mining: dam, emergency and blast alarms, geofenced exclusion zones and location tracking for crews working around explosives, heavy equipment, tailings dams and underground workings.
- Oil and gas: coordination between control rooms, field and maintenance crews, workboats and helicopters, with IP links that connect remote production and processing sites.
- Forestry and other resources: GPS tracking and speed alerts for dispersed crews and vehicles, plus interoperability so teams on different radio systems can still be dispatched together.
Site safety
Safer sites start with communication
Resource sites are hazardous places to work: regular blasting, heavy mobile equipment, inhospitable locations and, in mining, operations far underground. Any development that makes this work less dangerous matters.
Safe Work Australia's latest figures put the worker fatality rate in mining at 3.4 per 100,000 workers in 2024, more than two and a half times the national rate of 1.3.
Dam, emergency and blast alarms
Add the optional Emergency and Blast Alarm Workflow to omnicore Enterprise Dispatch Management System to get dedicated dam, emergency and blast alarm modes for mine sites. Set each one up centrally in the server's web configuration: choose the tone (single, dual, pulse or sweep), its frequencies, timing, repeat count and volume, and link it to status messages. When an alarm is raised from a console, or by a radio status message from the field, omnicore patches the designated channels into a dedicated alarm workgroup, injects the tone over the radio network and flags affected channels on every console. Permissions control who can set up, raise and clear an alarm.
Location services and geofencing
omnicore Enterprise Dispatch Management System has advanced location services built in. See every radio on a live map, draw geofences around blast zones, workings and no-go areas, and alert every console the moment a zone is breached, so no one is caught in the firing line. A breach can also start a workflow automatically, and route playback shows where crews and vehicles have been.
Dam and blast alarms on P25 mine sites
One example of how omnicore Enterprise Dispatch Management System is used on mine sites: managing dam and blast alarms on P25 networks over DFSI or CSSI connections, using status messages or automated workflows sent to single radios or entire talkgroups.
Capabilities
Tools that keep the control room in charge
Customizable 1-Click Workflows
Turn any procedure into a single button. Customizable 1-Click Workflows run simple or multi-step sequences when an operator clicks, so routine and emergency procedures are carried out the same way every time, even under pressure. Workflows can also start on their own, from a radio status message, a geofence breach, a schedule or an alarm. They can patch or change channels, play canned voice messages and switch I/O outputs to sound sirens or light beacons.
Rapid Recall
Never ask a crew to repeat themselves
On a busy site, messages get missed. Rapid Recall automatically records every incoming transmission in the operator's session, so a dispatcher can replay all or part of a call in seconds, without asking a radio user to repeat a message in the middle of an incident. Call History keeps a searchable record of calls for up to 60 days, ready for shift handovers and incident investigations.
Dynamic Regrouping
On supported trunked networks, including Tait DMR Tier 3, dispatchers can regroup radios from the omnicore console when a situation calls for it, with an expiry time so radios return to their normal groups automatically.
PTT priority lockout
A priority console's PTT locks out consoles of the same or lower priority, so emergency instructions aren't talked over.
Scheduled broadcasts
Schedule pre-recorded broadcasts to selected channels for shift changes, blast windows and safety reminders.
Aux I/O and Modbus
Control sirens, beacons and gates from the console or from an alarm.
One control room for every site
Run remote mine sites from one control room
Resource companies are moving dispatch off site and into remote operations centers. omnicore Enterprise Dispatch Management System links a single control room to every mine, port, rail line and processing plant, whether they're down the road or thousands of kilometers away. Omnitronics RoIP gateways carry each site's radio network over IP, so dispatchers see and talk to every site from one console, and adding a new site is a configuration change, not a new control room.
Built to stay up when the link goes down
Remote sites depend on long links. omnicore's distributed architecture, high availability and clustering options keep dispatch running, and consoles continue to work even if the server becomes unavailable.
Connect remote sites and mixed radio fleets
Resource companies are businesses first, so productivity matters as much as safety. Pairing omnicore with an Omnitronics RoIP gateway streamlines dispatch across the whole operation. Radio over IP gives you interoperability between different radio brands and technologies, and the network flexibility to connect sites spread over large geographic areas or add dispatch locations as the operation grows.
omniSentinel
Monitor and alert on server, database and gateway health across remote sites. Requires omnicore 4.5 or later and an active support plan.
Rio Tinto, Pilbara, Western Australia
One Perth control room. 16+ Pilbara mines. 1,600 km apart.
Rio Tinto runs an integrated network of more than 16 mines in Western Australia's Pilbara. Omnitronics supplied and installed omnicore Enterprise Dispatch Management System at Rio Tinto's operations center in Perth, linking local dispatch operators to remote mine sites around 1,600 km (1,000 miles) away. High availability and redundancy keep dispatch running around the clock, and consoles continue to work if one or more servers become unavailable.
Gold mining, Western Australia
Omnitronics dispatch manages radio communications at one of the largest above- and below-ground gold mining operations in Western Australia, with simple remote configuration and monitoring. Despite the size of the network, visibility has greatly improved.
Oil projects, west coast of Africa
With many active oil projects in the region, Omnitronics connected dispatch between sites using unicast IP lines to give operators dependable site-to-site communications.
Dispatch options
Three omnicore Dispatch Systems. One platform.
All editions share the same core dispatch architecture and intelligence. The right choice depends on the size and complexity of your operation, and every edition is designed to scale as your requirements grow.
Small organizations
omnicore Express
Radio Dispatch Console
Feature-rich dispatch on a Windows PC
| Dam, emergency and blast alarms | – Not available |
|---|---|
| Concurrent operators | Up to 5 simultaneous |
| Max channels / talk paths | 12 |
| Max configured operators | 40 |
| SIP lines | Up to 16 |
| P25 | Phase 1 FDMA and Phase 2 TDMA |
| DMR | Tier 2 Conventional and Tier 3 Trunked |
| Deployment | Windows PC |
| Procurement | CapEx and OpEx options |
| Support | 24/7/365 omnicare Premium Performance & Protection Plan |
Built for 1–5 dispatchers – ready to scale into the Essentials or Enterprise platform.
Medium organizations
omnicore Essentials
Radio Dispatch Software
Scalable dispatch for medium-sized operations
| Dam, emergency and blast alarms | – Not available |
|---|---|
| Concurrent operators | Up to 8 simultaneous |
| Max channels / talk paths | 24 |
| Max configured operators | 80 |
| SIP lines | Up to 16 |
| P25 | Phase 1 FDMA and Phase 2 TDMA |
| DMR | Tier 2 Conventional and Tier 3 Trunked |
| Deployment | On-site / data center |
| Availability | High availability & redundancy |
| Procurement | CapEx and OpEx options |
| Support | 24/7/365 omnicare Premium Performance & Protection Plan |
Ready to scale into the Enterprise platform.
Available in North and South America only.
Medium-large organizations
omnicore Enterprise
Dispatch Management System
Full-scale dispatch for complex networks
| Dam, emergency and blast alarms | ✓ Available |
|---|---|
| Concurrent operators | 100+ |
| Max channels / talk paths | 200+ |
| Max configured operators | 1,000+ |
| SIP lines | 32+ |
| P25 | Phase 1 FDMA and Phase 2 TDMA |
| DMR | Tier 2 Conventional and Tier 3 Trunked |
| Deployment | On-site / data center |
| Availability | High availability & redundancy |
| Procurement | CapEx and OpEx options |
| Support | 24/7/365 omnicare Premium Performance & Protection Plan |
Ready to scale as big as you need.
Optional dam, emergency and blast alarms for mine sites.
Resources
Learn from the resources industry
How radio continues to drive business in the resources industry
A free white paper exploring five lessons learned from leaders in resources, including oil and gas and mining.
On-demand webinar: mining, oil and gas dispatch
See how radio dispatch is used across mining, oil and gas operations.
We'll find the right system for your operation
Tell us about your sites, radio networks and safety requirements and our team will recommend the dispatch setup that fits.
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