How to Read the LYTHRON Dashboard
A plain-English walkthrough of every box, number, and color on the dual-branch mining dashboard — so you know exactly what the engine is telling you at a glance.
What Is LYTHRON
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LYTHRON is a robot that watches your mining equipment — the cutterhead carving nodules on the seabed, and the crusher grinding ore in the mill. You can't be everywhere at once, so LYTHRON watches the numbers — how hard the cutterhead is pushing, how fast the crusher is running, how much pressure is building in the riser — and tells you if everything is fine, or if a clog or jam is about to happen, before it actually happens.
Technical
LYTHRON is a physics-based kinetic engine that ingests SCADA / equipment telemetry in real time and computes deviation rate, structural mass, kinetic index, and kinematic velocity to classify the operation's trajectory. It escalates directives — from extraction nominal to anomaly to critical event — before non-productive time (NPT) accrues.
The Two Branches
The dashboard shows two branches side by side. Each branch watches a different part of the operation.
Watches what's happening underwater — the cutterhead and riser on the abyssal plain.
Cutterhead Load · Suction Pressure · Riser Flow · Slurry Density
Watches what's happening in the mill — the crusher and conveyor processing hard rock.
Crusher Throughput · Conveyor Load · Ore Grade · Mill Temp
Reading the Boxes
Each box on the dashboard is one signal (one "thermostat"). Here's what every part of the box means, from top to bottom:
The Three States
EXTRACTION NOMINAL
Green. Everything is within the mine plan. No action needed. The box stays quiet — no threshold or circuit breaker numbers are shown because there's nothing to fix.
ANOMALY
Yellow. The signal is drifting off plan but hasn't crossed the critical threshold yet. The operator should watch it and prepare. Threshold and stabilize targets appear.
CRITICAL EVENT
Red. The signal has crossed the threshold and is heading toward the circuit breaker. The engine issues a specific protocol directive (riser/clog, shutdown/jam). Act now.
Metric Glossary
Reading
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What the sensor is measuring right now — like the speedometer in your car.
Technical
The live telemetry value from the SCADA / equipment bridge for this signal type.
Baseline
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What the number should be if everything is going according to the mine plan.
Technical
The mine-plan / equipment-spec expected value. The engine measures all deviation against this.
Deviation
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How far off the reading is from the plan, shown as a percentage. 0% = perfect.
Technical
(Reading − Baseline) / Baseline × 100. The primary deviation rate (D) that feeds the kinetic index.
Kinetic Idx
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A danger score. Higher = more risk. It goes up when the reading is both big and off-plan.
Technical
The combined index that amplifies when structural mass (M) and deviation rate (D) intersect.
Velocity
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How fast the number is changing between readings. A sudden jump means trouble is accelerating.
Technical
Kinematic velocity — the rate of change of the signal value relative to the previous reading.
Rapidity
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A speed score compared to the plan. If it hits 1.0 or higher, the problem is going vertical — act fast.
Technical
Normalized rapidity (velocity / baseline). ≥ 1.0 indicates a near-vertical trajectory toward a critical event.
Threshold
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The danger line. Once your reading crosses this number, the engine turns red.
Technical
The action-threshold signal value. Crossing it triggers the anomaly or critical-event directive.
Stabilize
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The target number to get back to so the box turns green again.
Technical
The stabilization target — the signal value the operator should aim for to return the equipment to nominal.
Circuit Breaker
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The 'oh no' number. If the reading hits this, it's a full emergency — shut everything down.
Technical
The hard critical threshold. Reaching it implies a catastrophic event (riser clog, crusher jam) requiring immediate shutdown.
The Trajectory Graph
Each box now includes a small line graph (sparkline) at the bottom. Here's how to read it:
- ● The solid line is the signal's path over the last few readings.
- ┄ The white dashed line is the baseline — the "plan." A healthy line stays near it.
- ┄ The yellow dashed line (alerts only) is the threshold — the danger zone boundary.
- ┄ The red dashed line (alerts only) is the circuit breaker — the hard emergency limit.
When you press "Inject Anomaly," watch the line climb away from the baseline and toward the threshold. That visual climb is exactly what the engine detects — before the reading reaches the circuit breaker.
Classification Rules
The engine uses a deterministic, first-match-wins rule set. Every reading is classified by exactly one rule — this is your audit trail.
Ready to see it in action?
Go back to the live demo and inject an anomaly to watch the engine escalate.