COAL MINE SAFETY

MONITORING SYSTEM
USING FIREBIRD V
COAL MINING AND ITS HAZARDS
 Mining is one of the most dangerous trades all over the world.
 The mining industry has the highest incidence of occupational deaths among
all industries. Common causes of occupational deaths include rockfalls, fires,
explosions, methane intoxication, and electrocution.
 There are many case studies behind underground mines, a recent case study
in china reveal that underground mining in China is the world's deadliest
industry. To overcome all these disasters, we have developed a better
communication technology which has to be employed for an intelligent
sensing and warning system. For this, RF technology is chosen for the
communication inside the mines.
 The different parameters taken under consideration for the
monitoring of underground coal mines according to the
various types of accidents occurred [10]:
 LPG
 Methane
 Water
 Temperature
 Humidity
 Safety has long been a concern in the mining
business especially in sub-underground mining.
 While mining today is safer than it was in the
previous decades, mining accidents still occur.
 Government figures indicate that 5,000 Chinese
miners die in accidents each year.
 Accident due to
underground mining continue worldwide, including
dozens of fatalities at a time, such as the 2010
Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in the United
States, and the 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion in
China.
 The current advancements in the need base observing and correspondence of
underground mines condition in an exhaustive way is explained in this paper.
 Security and wellbeing of workers and resources in mines are essential
undertakings today to keep up mining operation.
 A coordinated framework is required to give all-round instrumentation to
track the area, to screen condition, air quality, ventilation framework,
obstacles, water, hazardous gases also as machine condition monitoring and
parallel improvement in the production of the coal mine
 It is a critical for coal excavator to work securely and adequately inside
underground mine.
 This is conceivable if there are reasonable conditions display inside mines.
 Reasonable conditions incorporate appropriate temperature, dampness,
Oxygen level and so on.
 At the point when work is in advance inside underground mines, there is
dependably plausibility of changes in the environment of mines.
 Now temperature rises all a sudden may cause fire, some of the time
moistness builds prompts uneasiness in condition or at times vibration will
happen or at some point unsafe gases like methane may detonate.
 So it is important to have nonstop observing on parameter like
temperature,humditity,gases,vibration,obstcacles,and so on introduce inside
the underground mine.
 Main observation parameters of mine safety area unit gas data, temperature
data and gaseous data etc. The system, carries out automatic and continuous
observation on the relevant underground parameters, incessantly collects
knowledge of all parameters that need observation by varied sensors
 Signals in the mine are transmitted through wireless data. Due to the fact
that there are several working faces in one mine and they are not far from
each other, it is therefore designed that all data from various working faces
are collected to the substations of the mine through RF technology where
they are transmitted to the main control module
 Identification of hazard parameters

 To set thresholds for the considered parameters.

 Design the hardware model for the collection of the data.
 Machine learning system will make the decision before entry in to the mine
 Using this system variation in surrounding conditions can be monitored and
necessary safety precautions can be taken.
 It also provides a technique for tracking the position of the worker which
enables the rescue team to provide immediate help in adverse conditions.
 As a future enhancement, the control room module can be designed and
implemented for the mentioned purposes.
 The safety provided by the smart helmet can be improved in future by the
Integration of more sensors in this system.
 This technology is a low-cost technology compared to other communication
schemes. Thus, using Radio frequency technology is the Savior of Underground
miners across the world
 METHODLOGYIES

 GPS system
 GSM module
 FIRE BIRD