Amid the national strategic push to advance the energy revolution and accelerate the construction of intelligent mines, China Coal Technology & Engineering Group Shenyang Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. (CCTEG Shenyang Design Institute), adhering to the principle of innovation-driven development, has successfully independently developed a world-leading integrated platform comprising an intelligent aerial survey system and digital intelligence analysis for open-pit mines. This major sci-tech innovation achievement marks a new, fully independent, intelligent, and high-efficiency stage for surveying operations and safety management in China's open-pit mining sector. It vividly demonstrates CCTEG Shenyang Design Institute's practice of driving industrial upgrading through technological innovation and composing a new chapter of revitalization. This outcome represents a significant breakthrough achieved by deeply implementing the parent group's "1245" overall development strategy, focusing on the core strategic directions of "intelligentization" and "digitalization." It is a key practice of implementing the group's strategic deployment and driving value creation through technological innovation.

Addressing Industry Pain Points, Breaking Through Transformation Challenges

Confronting long-standing common challenges hindering industry development in open-pit mining—such as low survey efficiency, difficult safety supervision, and underutilized data value caused by vast, dynamic operational environments—CCTEG Shenyang Design Institute actively responded to the national call for intelligent construction. Aiming for "staff reduction and efficiency increase, automation, and intelligentization," the institute pioneered a "1+N+N" multi-machine collaborative intelligent aerial survey operation system through deep integration of IoT sensing, spatial intelligence, AI analytics, and big data analysis technologies. This breakthrough overcame technical barriers like automated multi-payload data downlinking, achieving full-process automation of survey operations. By integrating all-dimensional data through the digital intelligence analysis platform, it provides dynamic, visual, and precise support for management decision-making, fundamentally reconstructing the paradigm for mine surveying and inspection operations.

Leveraging profound industry expertise and technological prowess, the R&D team successfully created an innovative solution that addresses these industry bottlenecks, showcasing CCTEG Shenyang Design Institute's sense of responsibility in supporting national energy security and promoting the transformation of traditional industries.

"Robust Equipment + Smart Platform": Showcasing CCTEG's Technological Strength

This achievement establishes a full-chain solution centered on "intelligent equipment - digital intelligence platform - shared applications," with the core being a complete set of intelligent aerial survey equipment and the integrated digital intelligence analysis platform. The intelligent aerial survey equipment boasts standout features like high precision, ultra-long endurance, and all-weather operation, enabling it to adapt to complex mining area environments.

The synergistic digital intelligence analysis platform acts as a round-the-clock "smart steward." It deeply integrates capabilities such as automated inspection, high-precision 3D modeling, and AI-powered intelligent recognition, realizing full-process intelligent management from autonomous UAV data collection and efficient modeling to intelligent analysis. This demonstrates CCTEG Shenyang Design Institute's exceptional innovation capabilities in industrial software and platform system integration.

Notable Application Results: Reshaping Mine Operations with Technological Innovation

The application of this system has yielded significant economic and social benefits:

• Operational Model: Utilizing automated UAV hangars enables 24/7 unattended operations, with data production automation exceeding 95%. Survey personnel reduced by 80%, operational efficiency increased by 200%, achieving annual cost savings of nearly ten million RMB.

• Data Processing: Relying on a high-performance computing center, it achieves automated modeling and updating of real-scene 3D models, constructing an accurate "3D digital foundation." Modeling efficiency increased by 80%, supporting daily updates for areas up to 10 square kilometers, reducing mining and stripping planning cycles by 60%.

• Safety & Efficacy: Enables one-click precise calculation of key indicators like earthwork stripping volume, boosting acceptance efficiency by 300% and reducing calculation error rate to below 0.1%. AI algorithms for slope safety monitoring, landslide inspection, and coal seam spontaneous combustion identification achieve accuracy rates over 90%, enabling early and precise safety risk warnings and improving safety management efficiency nearly tenfold.

Setting a Benchmark for Transformation, Injecting Technological Momentum into High-Quality Development

This achievement transcends a mere upgrade of technical tools, realizing a profound reshaping of open-pit mine production management models. It successfully constructs a full-process business ecosystem of "data collection - intelligent processing - industry application." The project has obtained multiple national patents and software copyrights. Appraised by several industry experts, its overall technical level reaches international leadership.

Recognized for its innovation and practicality, the project has been awarded the Second Prize of the Liaoning Provincial Natural Resources Science and Technology Progress Award, the Special Prize of the 2025 Coal Construction Industry "Five Small" Technological Innovations, and was selected as a typical case of innovative application for high-quality development empowered by real-scene 3D data in Liaoning Province (2025). Related achievements and product promotions have been reported by authoritative media such as Northeast News Network.

The project successfully creates a replicable and scalable systematic solution, vigorously promoting the autonomous and controllable development of mine sensing equipment, core algorithms, and platform software. It sets a benchmark for industry intelligent transformation. By building an autonomous and controllable industrial innovation chain, it injects powerful technological momentum into the high-quality development of CCTEG Shenyang Design Institute and national energy security.