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Improve Safety of Miners with Automated Underground Monitoring |
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Since the computation is reaching to every part of the world, coal miners from Africa also got benefited from it.
standards and meet new laws, a decision was made to upgrade the current legacy system with new Ethernet
Communication and data streaming in our target mine needed to be improved and upgraded to ensure higher
in the underground environment.
Mining operations are being equipped with sophisticated industrial controls and sensors for safety and operating
many mining applications, data is combined with information from sensors and industrial controls, not only pushing
requirements up but also to reduce the electromagnetic interference; hence forcing to deploy fiber optics. |
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Requirements |
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The purpose of this project was to establish a surface-to-underground communication to manage routine sensors, alarms and serial
devices. Another requirement for the system was to link and administrate the group of mines. The control office on the surface has
complete access of every activity inside the mines. Using the Ethernet, underground air quality is also monitored to see whether it
is safe for workers to enter the mine. Carbon Monoxide (CO) sensors and Methane sensors are used for this purpose. Lightning was
very common in the area. |
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Solution |
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A combination of Managed Switches and Fiber Device Servers met the requirements perfectly. The flexibility of the optical ports
offered the ideal solution for performing central and remote management of the distributed network architecture. Now the mine´s
management can manage up to 256 serial devices via Virtual COM port drivers, and Ring-based technology can be adopted for the
connectivity without any failure. The fiber-optical cables offer the mine maximum data integrity from high incidence of lightning. |
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Why SUNIX |
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Extended serial to Ethernet communication solutions range. |
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Higher reliability with Ethernet redundancy.
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Reliability with fiber optic conversion of serial transmission. |
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The use of Ethernet products in the mine has provided a much safer working environment. The Ethernet keeps information flowing at all times, streaming data about the status of workers and equipment -- and about whether conditions are safe for workers to be in the mine. The rugged outer case of products is ideal for mining environments, providing protection for the highly durable internal electronics. The fiber optics provides flexibility and cost-effectiveness while offering the highest level of data integrity, especially in the lightning season. The mine can perform its daily operations more safely and more confidently. Device Servers removed the bottleneck created by the need to monitor and manage a large number of serial devices via the Ethernet. |
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Application |
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Key Products |
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ESW-8062MM
DS-3010M |
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