Personnel Positioning and Vehicle Collision Awareness System for Underground Mining

RealTrac Collision Awareness

The product is aimed to reduce the number of accidents caused by collisions between vehicles, machinery and personnel in conditions of poor visibility.

Advantages:

o 360 ° monitoring around a vehicle
o Detecting a distance to and direction of another object with accuracy up to 1 meter.
o Three control zones with ability to configure them as required
o The system can operate independently and also be integrated into other systems
o Short payback period

Operating Principle and Components
The system provides a situational awareness of the environment around a vehicle; detects presence of vehicles, personnel or objects within the pre-set zones. As soon as any object, vehicle or personnel equipped by RealTrac Collision Awareness tag enters the pre-set zones, the system emits tangible, audible and visual signals. Alerts are emitted by:

Audible warning from machinery, activation of sirens or horns

Vibro signal from a tag

Blinking of a cap lamp

Vehicle lights blinking or activation of other visual signals

The intensity of alerts can be configured depending on the control zone.

RealTrac Positioning

The product is aimed to detect positioning of miners, mining machinery and other objects on various mine levels, in faces, stopes (mines) using various radio technologies.

Key Benefits:

o Enables to meet the legislative requirements and industrial security regulations in underground mining operation
o Can use existing underground mine infrastructure
o The hardware can be embedded into cap lamp and a miner doesn’t need additional equipment
o The modularity of the system enables to add further functionality as required
o Due to a single infrastructure, there is a possibility to upgrade a zonal positioning into precise positioning simply by adding additional anchors
o Integration by means of the open protocol (API) enables to transmit the data to the HR recordkeeping system, computer-aided process control system etc.