A proposal for Adani Natural Resources

Adani has built one of India's largest mining operations.
What it costs to move each tonne is decided on the haul road.

In a few years Adani has done what took the rest of the industry decades. The tonnes are already past a hundred million a year and still climbing, and the group has put real capital behind it, down to running a hydrogen haul truck while most operators are still deciding whether to start. None of that is in question. What quietly decides whether all of it scales profitably is the fleet that moves the material, because that is where the cost hides: in the diesel a truck burns sitting idle, in the tyre that wears out long before its time. At your scale, two or three points there is a board-level number. That is the one problem I have spent my career on, and I think it is worth thirty minutes to show you how far it could go.

Fleet OverviewAsset HealthDispatchEnergy Live
The SymX product suite · deployed and validated · each module live on real fleets
▶ Watch the platform in motion
X.Machines
Predictive maintenance across drivetrain, hydraulics and engine — 48–72 hr failure warnings.
X.Tires
AI tyre-health monitoring co-developed with Yokohama. Inflation, load and haul-road scoring.
X.Connect
OEM-agnostic connectivity — Cat, Komatsu, Hitachi, Liebherr in one API, plus underground mesh.
X.Parts
Patented AI on maintenance logs. Predicts parts failure and replaces at true end-of-life.
X.Inspect
Paperless equipment inspections end-to-end, with proactive maintenance triggers.
+6%
More trips
Like adding trucks at zero capex
−9%
Fuel & CO₂
Idle, speed and route discipline
−20%
Tyre cost
15–25% of truck operating cost
−50%
Downtime
Predictive, not reactive
−14%
Parts & maintenance
Condition-based scheduling
How SymX fits the strategy you have set
The priorities you have already set. One system that moves all of them.

You have already set the direction for this business, to grow fast and lead the sector through technology, and you have been just as clear that it has to be done sustainably. The hardest place to deliver on all of that is the moving fleet, the trucks that shift the material and carry the risk. That is the part SymX was built for. Here is how it lines up with the priorities you have already set.

Growth
Scale the portfolio by repeating what already works
The MDO portfolio is fifteen blocks and widening into iron ore, bauxite and metals. Today each new mandate means standing operations up from the ground. With SymX, every block you win goes live on the same proven operating layer from the first shift, so the business scales as fast as Adani can win the work.
Cost of operations
The lowest cost per tonne wins the tender
An MDO mandate is won and defended on a single number, the cost of moving each tonne against the tender price. A documented lift in throughput and a documented cut in fuel and maintenance are not features. They are the evidence that wins the next bid and protects the margin on the last one.
Artificial intelligence
Bring the group's AI ambition to the pit
Adani is building AI into everything it touches, from data centres to energy. The mobile fleet is where that ambition meets the ground. SymX brings the same discipline to the mine: every machine reading itself, every dispatch decision informed by data the fleet was already generating, nothing left on the table.
Safety
Fewer surprises on the haul road
Most serious incidents are preceded by a signal the equipment was already sending. Because SymX reads each machine continuously, it surfaces the developing fault, the failing strut, the overheating component, before it becomes an event. Safer operations and higher uptime turn out to be the same discipline.
Revenue
More tonnes from the fleet you already own
Higher availability means more tonnes dispatched on the same trucks. Lower fuel and maintenance means more margin on each one. On an operation moving past a hundred million tonnes a year, a few points of efficiency is a material, recurring contribution, shift after shift, on contracts that run for decades.
Sustainability
Decarbonisation you can measure
The hydrogen truck and the dozer-push programme are real moves. A nine percent fuel and CO₂ reduction across the diesel fleet that still moves most of the tonnes is the larger, faster lever, and it complements those programmes with measurement no one else can provide.
How the platform fits together Validated architecture
FLEET EDGE PLATFORM OUTCOMES Diesel haulers Trucks · shovels · drills Hydrogen trucks Gare Pelma III fleet Dozer-push Semi-autonomous SymBot Edge (Gen 6) Cross-OEM CAN bus · on-machine compute SymX Platform X.Connect · X.Machines · X.Tires · X.Parts · APIs Lower cost per tonne Dispatch · cycle · fuel Higher uptime Predictive maintenance Safer pit Early fault warning

Every machine reports through one on-board device into one platform, and the platform turns that data into the outcomes the leadership has already prioritised. The same architecture has been validated on a live mixed-manufacturer fleet.

The platform, in plain view

This is the screen your team would open at the start of every shift.

Every machine sits in one place, with fuel, tyre health, dispatch and engine condition drawn from what the machines already record, so there is nothing new to fit on the trucks.

These are the same screens running on operating mines today, across five continents, not a demo built for this page.

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OverviewAsset HealthTyresEnergy Live
Measured in the field
Recorded on real operations, not modelled in a spreadsheet
+23%
Throughput increase on a validated deployment
9%
Fuel and CO₂ reduction across the diesel fleet
50%
Reduction in unscheduled downtime
<1 wk
From install to first measurable value
Proof on the ground
Three mines you will recognise. The same system.

The same system runs across three very different mines, and each one will look like a piece of what you run already, from a remote site with no network and a rising diesel bill to a large open-pit fleet under constant cost pressure. The numbers below are what SymX showed each team, and what they did about it.

Doe RunConnectivity · fuel · uptime
Brushy Creek & Southeast Missouri complex · underground lead

Doe Run runs six underground mines where diesel cost had climbed roughly 67% year on year, productivity was chronically low, and the working faces had almost no network, so the team managed equipment largely by hand. SymX deployed the full stack, beginning with the X.Mesh wireless backbone that finally brought reliable connectivity underground, then layering fleet management, tyre and fuel monitoring, and predictive maintenance on top. Modelled against that baseline, the platform targets a 15% productivity lift, up to 9% lower fuel, 15% longer tyre life, and avoids up to $130,000 an hour of unscheduled downtime.

+67%The runaway diesel cost SymX was deployed to arrest, with connectivity restored at the face for the first time
TOTAL DIESEL COST · BEFORE DEPLOYMENT +67% YoY diesel FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 ANTICIPATED IMPACT · FULL-STACK DEPLOYMENT Productivity (X.Machines · X.Mesh) +15% Fuel cost (X.Fuel idle reduction) −9% Tyre life (X.Tires) +15% Availability (X.Parts predictive) $130K/hr Connectivity at the face (X.Mesh HaLow) near-zero → full
X.Mesh restored connectivity underground; X.Machines, X.Tires and X.Fuel then turned a manual, fuel-bleeding complex into a monitored one.
Agnico EagleFuel & idle reduction
Detour Lake · Ontario · largest gold mine in Canada

Detour Lake runs a large mixed open-pit fleet where company diesel use had climbed sharply, without the asset-level visibility to manage it. SymX has run there since 2021. X.Fuel's optimisation, principally cutting idle and overspeed, delivered measurable fuel savings inside the first six months of deployment, with no equipment changes. Average daily fuel fell 4.3%, hourly burn 1.5%, and daily idle time 3.1% — savings the team could see and act on, asset by asset.

4.3%Lower average daily fuel in the first six months, from idle and speed discipline alone
AVG DAILY FUEL · LITRES/DAY · FIRST 6 MONTHS 1207 1128 −4.3% M1M2M3M4M5M6 −1.5% hourly fuel burn −3.1% daily idle time 8.5→7.9h idle hrs / asset / day
X.Fuel made idle and overspeed visible per asset, turning an invisible loss into a managed line item, with no new equipment.
Buzzi UnicemFuel & tyre · production held
Cape Girardeau · Missouri · cement, beyond metals

At its Cape Girardeau quarry, Buzzi Unicem needed to hold production while controlling fuel, and lacked the operator-level data to find where the waste was. SymX combined GPS, on-board sensors and AI into one view that exposed where time and fuel were lost, then surfaced tyre pressure deviations and leakage early enough to prevent premature failures. Production stayed stable while fuel consumption fell about 16%, equipment availability rose, and each prevented tyre failure saved up to $10,000 in replacement cost.

≈16%Lower fuel consumption with production held flat, plus up to $10,000 saved per tyre failure prevented
PRODUCTION HELD · FUEL DOWN Production flat Fuel −16% Uptime up $10K saved per tyre failure prevented overspeed · queue · idle excess fuel traced and acted on
The Utilisation and Tyre dashboards held output steady while stripping fuel and preventing tyre failures before they happened.
The named endorsement · Glencore COO · on the record
The problem SymX solves is foundational. Connectivity and cross-OEM data integration at the point of work are infrastructure gaps the mining industry has struggled with for decades, but SymX changes the paradigm. This level of integration and insight is exactly what the industry needs to move forward.
PX
Peter Xavier
Chief Operating Officer · Canada Metals · Glencore

Glencore validated the platform on its own battery-electric fleet, drawn from several different manufacturers, in one of the most technically demanding environments in the industry. If SymX can integrate a mixed battery-electric fleet at that standard, it handles a diesel-and-hydrogen surface fleet comfortably.

Why this fits Adani specifically
The hard moves are already made. SymX completes the picture.

What Adani has already built

Semi-autonomous dozer-push, the first such deployment in Asia, already running at the flagship PEKB block in Chhattisgarh.
India's first hydrogen mining truck, a forty-tonne fuel-cell vehicle now hauling at Gare Pelma III, putting a genuinely new powertrain into the working fleet.
A public commitment to technology, with Dr. Vinay Prakash tying the division's future to using technology and innovation to run resources more efficiently.

Where SymX completes it

Those diesel, hydrogen and autonomous machines each report to their own manufacturer's system, so SymX is what brings the whole fleet onto one screen.
Fifteen blocks across three countries each generate data their own way, so SymX is what gives the group a single operational picture to compare sites and move best practice between them.
An MDO is paid on cost per tonne against a tender price, so SymX is what turns every point of fleet efficiency into margin that wins the next block and renews the last one.
Indicative value · per 100-truck block
What this looks like at Adani's scale.

Scaled from validated deployment data to a single 100-truck block at typical asset operating costs. Conservative, illustrative, not a guarantee; individual site results vary with baseline conditions.

+6%
Productivity
~$15–18M from additional material moved per year
$8–10M
Fuel & CO₂
9% reduction on a large annual fleet fuel spend
$6–8M
Maintenance & parts
Condition-based vs calendar scheduling
$12–15M
Downtime avoided
50% fewer unscheduled events
$5–7M
Tyre life extended
20% improvement on ultra-class tyres
<1 wk
Time to first value
Baseline measured inside the first week
Source: SymX validated deployment data, scaled. Illustrative benchmarks, not guarantees.
Total annual value
$45–55M
per 100-truck block
at comparable operating scale
Typical payback
< 90 days
From the field
Perspectives on mining efficiency and fleet intelligence.
Worth a single conversation.

Adani has already made the difficult moves toward the modern mine. The platform that unifies a mixed fleet across many sites is the natural next step rather than a departure. It runs on the equipment already in the pit, and it asks for no new trucks and no rip-and-replace.

The right first step is a thirty-minute conversation and a single-block pilot: a contained fleet, a measured baseline inside a week, and a number that can be carried straight into the next bid.

Ash Agarwal
Chief Executive Officer · SymX.AI
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