user experience and information design
OptiFleet Bitcoin Mining Ops
 OptiFleet Site Map allows immediate, color-coded status evaluation of all zones, racks and miners, and drill-down to all controls and statistics of a single ASIC miner. |  Maintenance and repair tracking is at the core of mining ops when problems arise. And they do. Often. The Kanban and list views allow filtering by ASIC, work order type, status, technician, location and due date. Statistics dashboard provides operations performance analytics. |
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 Foundry Firmware management. Optimizing miners can make the difference between profit or loss. Workflow requires legal acceptance, scan for upgradable miners, and firmware flashing. Programmatic tuning for power and environmental needs is accessed through control panels. |
I joined Foundry as their first in-house designer. They're one of the largest Bitcoin pools in the world, with several mining operations in US locations.
Their pool data was consumed mostly through API. But their mining ops platform – an acquired, re-branded product with a backlog of features, fixes and needs, provided LOTS to sink my teeth into.
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'Show everything all the time all at once'
Mining sites have thousands of ASICs running in extreme conditions. 24/7. Each needs monitoring, analysis, trouble-shooting, maintenance and replacement. Overlay this with factoring power cost, power availability, environment (heat, wind, electrical storms, tornados hurricanes): How to evaluate and navigate a ten-thousand-foot-to-single-device in a few clicks.
A perfect storm for my brain