Mine Safety System Using Wireless Sensor Networks

矿产资源的增长已成为一个有效的经济部门，这导致在恶劣环境下的采矿活动大量增加。地下矿井就是这种恶劣环境的一个例子，它可能是危险的，不安全的，并且有很大的事故风险，可能会损坏有线/无线通信基础设施。在危险事故发生后，保持与被困矿工和救援人员的通信畅通，并追踪他们的位置是至关重要的。通过无线传感器网络对矿井状况的可靠了解将有助于安全作业的组织、规划和完成。可靠的无线传感器网络（wsn）的使用提供了一系列的优势，包括但不限于提供监测矿井状态的无线能力，即检查/监测，而不必将人的生命暴露在可能危险的环境中。在本课题中，我们提出利用可靠的无线传感器网络设计一个矿山安全系统原型，目的是建立一个安全系统来监测黄金公司采矿环境的环境特征。拟议的原型可以监测矿井内多个不同的区域，保护矿工免受过度噪音的影响，并存储测量数据以供参考。GoldCorp Inc的设计目标是解决以最低部署成本部署具有指定最低可靠性水平的WSN的问题。

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.