Mine Safety System Using Wireless Sensor Networks

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The growth of mineral resources has become as an effective economic sector, which has led to a huge increasein mining activities in harsh environments. An underground mine is one example of such harsh environmentsthat can be dangerous, unsafe, and has great risk of accidents that can damage wired/wireless communicationsinfrastructure.In the aftereffect of a hazardous accident, it is essential to keep communications open with trapped miners andrescuers, and to track their positions. A reliable knowledge of a mine's conditions through a wireless sensornetwork would assist the organizing, planning, and accomplishment of safety operations.The employment of reliable wireless sensor networks (WSNs) offers a set of advantages including but notlimited to providing a wireless capability of monitoring the state of the mine's conditions i.e.checking/monitoring without having to expose a person's life to the possibly hazardous environment.In this project, we propose to to design a mine safety system prototype using a reliable WSN with theobjective of building a safety system to monitor the ambient characteristics of the mining environment ofGoldCorp Inc. The proposed prototype allows for monitoring of multiple different zones inside the mine, theprotection of mine workers from excessive noise levels and the storage of measurement data for purposes ofreference. The design target of GoldCorp Inc is to address the problem of deploying a WSN with a specifiedminimum level of reliability at a minimum deployment cost.