Senstrali builds conveyor monitoring sensors and provides on-site roller assessment services for mining operations in Western Australia. We focus on the two problems that cause most monitoring deployments to fail: the sensors don't survive, and the data doesn't change a maintenance decision.
We deploy through paid pilots with clear scope and success criteria, and we keep the hardware operational so the site is not left holding survivability risk.
About the founder
Jason Milne is the founder of Senstrali. He spent 13 years at Schlumberger (SLB) designing sensors for extreme environments, including magnetic clamp-on ultrasonic sensors for subsea steel structures, high-temperature pressure sensors for downhole tools, and physics-informed behavioural models validated against large calibration datasets.
That experience taught him what it takes to make a sensor survive and produce useful data when conditions are hostile: high vibration, aggressive chemistry, extreme temperatures, and difficult mounting surfaces. It also taught him that most sensor failures in the field are not electronics failures. They're coupling failures, bandwidth mismatches, or mounting architectures that don't survive the environment they were designed for.
Senstrali exists because conveyor monitoring has exactly these problems. Conventional vibration sensors miss early-stage bearing faults because they can't hear them — the damage signatures sit in the ultrasonic band, well above what a standard accelerometer can detect.
Jason holds a PhD in Engineering from The University of Western Australia, where he is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Engineering. He is a Member of Engineers Australia (MIEAust) and the IEEE, and has published across sensor physics, metrology, and MEMS.