Study of real-time miner tracking using wireless sensor area network

Abstract

Mine safety monitoring system (MSMS) can achieve a variety of safety factors of production and underground environment such as gas, temperature, humidity etc. for monitoring mine production, safety management and for safety of the miners to provide a good basis for decision making. The number of person injuries and deaths caused by the lack of information in mine are increasing year by year, so it is very important to control the accidents for achieving the safety in process of mine, and the development of the mine industry. At present, the mine monitoring system is generally composed of the monitoring sensor parameters in underground substation, information transmission system and surface base station centre. The communication between the underground substations with the surface centre consists of the information transmitting system that directly effect on the transmission quality of information and investment cost of the system using the Zigbee technology. The purpose of this work is to implement a safety system in mine based on wireless sensor network.