POORNIMA UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
IV YEAR

Ranjeet Singh Thakur

2015PUSETBCEX03582
Ankit Yadav
2015PUSETBMEX03907
Karanveer Singh
2015PUSETBMEX3811
Prince Dubey
2015PUSETBMEX03974
Vishnu Dev Kumar
2015PUSETBMEX04058

Mr. Devendra Prasad Mr. Ravi K. Godra

Guide HOD

POORNIMA UNIVERSITY
IS 2027-31, Ramchandrapura, PO Vidhani Vatika
Sitapura Extension, Jaipur – 303905, Rajasthan (India)
www.poornima.edu.in
 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the project work report entitled “Mines Accident
Predictor” is submitted by Ranjeet Singh Thakur
(2015PUSETBCEX03582), students of final year VIII semester in partial
fulfillment of the degree of Bachelor of Technology in Computer
Engineering of Poornima University, Jaipur during the academic year
2018-2019. The work has been found satisfactory and is approved for
submission.

Mr, Devendra Prasad

Guide
Assistant Professor, CE

Mr. Devendra Prasad Dr. Rattan Rana

Project Coordinator (Dean, SCE)
CE

Mr. Ravi Kumar Dr. Manoj Gupta

Godra
(HOD, Dept. of ME) (Provost, PU)

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It is our privilege to express our sincerest regards to our project

coordinator, Mr. Devendra Prasad (Asst. Professor), for his valuable
inputs, able guidance, encouragement, whole-hearted cooperation and
constructive criticism throughout the duration of our project. Many
thanks to our project guide, Mr. Devendra Prasad, who has given his
full effort in guiding the team for achieving the goal as well as his
encouragement to maintain our progress in track.

We are thankful to Dr. Manoj Gupta, Provost, Poornima University &

Dean, SET for providing me a platform to carry out the project work.

We deeply express our sincere thanks to our Head of Department, Mr.

Ravi Kumar Godra for encouraging and allowing us to make the project
on the topic “Mines Accident Predictor” at our department premises.

We would like to express our hearts felt appreciation to all faculty

members whose direct or indirect suggestions helped us to develop this
project. We pay our respect and love to our parents and all other family
members and friends for their love and encouragement throughout our
career.

Ranjeet Singh Thakur(2015PUSETBCEX03582)

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 Table of Content

Title Page -
Certificate ii
Acknowledgement iii
Table of Content iv
List of Figures vii

Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Sensors 1
1.2 Criteria to choose a sensor 2
1.3 Components of Sensor 2
1.4 Classifications of Sensor 3
1.4.1 Based on input power Requirements 3
1.4.2 Based on Detection System in Sensors 3
1.4.3 Based on Conversion phenomenon 4
1.4.4 Based on input output signal 4
1.6 Temperature Sensor 4
Chapter 2 About Coal Mining 5
2.1 Coal Mining 5
2.2 Method of Extraction of Coal 6
2.2.1 Surface Mining 6
2.2.2 Strip Mining 7
2.2.3 Contour Mining 8
2.2.4 Mountain Top Removal Mining 8
2.2.5 Underground Mining 9

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2.3 Hazard Identification Technique 10
2.4 Internet of Things 11
2.5 Upcoming of Internet of Things 11
2.6 IOT in coal mines 11
2.7 Application of IOT technology 12
Chapter 3 Project Work 13
3.1 DHT11 Sensor 13
3.1.1 Technical Specification of DHT11 14
3.1.2 Connection with Raspberry Pi 14
3.2 MQ2 sensor 14
3.2.1 Technical Specification of MQ2 15
3.2.2 Connection with Raspberry Pi 15
3.2.3 Sensing Characteristics 15
3.3 Xcluma PCF8591 AD/DA conversion Module 16
3.4 MQ136 Sensor 17
3.4.1 H2S Detection 17
3.5 Raspberry Pi 3 Motherboard 17
3.5.1 Technical specification of Raspberry pi 3 18
3.5.2 Operating System installation Process 18
3.6 Read Data Interface with ThingSpeak Platform 21
3.7 Read Data Interface with Gmail 23
Chapter 4 Coding Work 26
4.1 Coding 26
Chapter 5 Application and Future Scope 32
5.1 Application 32
5.2 Future Scope 32
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Chapter 6 Conclusion 33
References 34

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 List of Figures

1.1 Sensor Process 1

1.2 Transducer Working 2

1.3 Temperature Sensor 4

2.1. Comparison of the number of fatal accidents 5

2.2. Fatality rates in Indian coal mines 6

2.3 Working of Surface Mining 7

2.4 Strip Mining 7

2.5 Contour mining 8

2.6 Mountain Top Removal Mining 9

2.7 Underground Mining 9

2.8 Internet of Things in Coal Mines 11

3.1 DHT11 Sensor 13

3.2 MQ2 Sensor 14

3.3 Gas Concentration standard chart 16

3.4 PCF8591 ADC 16

3.5 MQ136 Sensor 17

3.6 Raspberry Pi model 3 B 18

3.7 Raspberry Pi 3 GPIO pins 19

3.8 Circuit Diagram 20

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3.9 Temperature and humidity Graph 21

3.10 LPG and CO Graph 22

3.11 Smoke and Methane Graph 22

3.12 Email Message 23

3.13 Project Gallery 1 24

3.14 Project Gallery 2 24

3.15 Project Gallery 3 25

3.16 Project Gallery 4 25

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