What makes Stone Three the company it is?

Dirk Wagener, General Manager of People Productivity and Health: “The staff and culture at Stone Three are really what makes us so special. All our IP, products and technology has been developed in-house based on the needs of our customers and the ingenuity of our engineers and domain experts. We are known for building longterm trust relationships with our customers and partners.

“Our software engineers, metallurgists, business minds, clinical advisors, and multiple PhD holding individuals make it a creative hub in which ideas are allowed to incubate. I always make myself available to listen to our teams and how their thoughts or ideas can be translated into action and reality with real business impact. The people and trust relationships make the company.”

Stone Three’s offerings, and on top of this, the company works alongside external organisations, such as Intercare, to achieve its mission of solutions delivery in Africa and on continents beyond.

“This is a key project and partnership for us here at Stone Three,” Wagener affirms. “In the past, most of our telehealth solutions have been deployed in the US mainly due to the demand and slow pace in which telehealth has been adopted in South Africa, due to local regulations. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic demand quickly intensified and through our continued success in North America we formed a strategic partnership with Intercare to deliver on their telehealth needs. This has allowed us to assist in making change through the adoption of telemedicine right here in South Africa in partnership with Intercare having conducted over 12,000 telehealth consultations since the onset of the pandemic.”

On top of this, Stone Three has multiple long-term relationships with multinational mining companies. Over the years, Stone Three has been able to understand some of the mining challenges faced in the sector, and utilising its extensive knowledge, expertise and solutions, boosted the operational productivity of many corporations.

“In the area of metallurgy, our smart sensors have shown significant impact and results in terms of process improvement resulting in increased operational productivity,” Wagener tells us. “Improving employee health and safety in the heavy industry working environment remains a complex challenge. Critical controls must be monitored 24/7, trends need to be identified and reported, and certain detections require real-time alerts, a task impossible to accomplish with human oversight alone. Our video safety analytics uses AI to automatically identify health and safety related behaviours, infringements, potentially harmful events, and objects. The solution integrates into an existing CCTV camera infrastructure for constant monitoring, automated detections, and enhanced safety awareness across the entire operation. It is fair to say that we have become experts in improving the performance of our clients’ critical controls, improving their safety culture, reducing lost time injuries and saving lives. In partnership with our mining clients, we are working towards a healthier, more productive workforce.”

SERVING THE GLOBE

Stone Three is always ready to adapt and diversify to fit the industries in which it can make a difference, and the company prides itself on its positive global wellbeing footprint. One of its products, TeleSensi®,

is unique in its ability to transmit live heart and lung sounds while performing a medical examination using a variety of different digital stethoscopes.

“This technology can be a game changer when attempting to offer specialist care to rural areas of the world,” Wagener tells us. “Imagine a travelling nurse seeing to a patient in a rural area of the Eastern Cape (South Africa) or a paramedic onboard a mining ship, handling a trauma case - the nurse or paramedic can now “live-stream” the patient’s heart auscultation to a cardiologist anywhere in the world to offer the best care possible. These are the types of game-changing technologies and services we build at Stone Three.

“Companies and society in general are paying more attention to mental health, an especially relevant topic during the current pandemic, through telehealth adoption this can easily be cost-contained, and companies have the ease of knowing their employees are getting the best care possible delivered at scale.”

Thanks to the expertise and dedication of Stone Three’s employees and the unwavering support of its customers, the company has evolved over the years to become one of South Africa’s leading Industry 4.0 firms, designing and developing services that increase operational productivity, and improve people’s health, safety and overall happiness.

Stone Three’s manifesto sums up the heart, drive and mission of the company:

“We use technology for good. We use it to innovate, improve and empower.

To create better working conditions. To make people safer, healthier and happier.

To save companies time and money.

And to help them become more successful.

To do this, we keep researching, designing and developing.

We keep looking for ways to make technology extraordinary; to turn possibility into reality and potential into practical, to embrace the new industrial revolution, and to move us all forward.

We do this constantly and endlessly, as we have for 20 years.

We believe in the future.

And we create The Future of Work - Now.”

STONE THREE

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