Enhancing Safety of Underground Coal Mine using IoT-Enabled Approach for Environmental and Strata Monitoring

Abstract

Safety is a vital element of a healthy work environment. To improve safety of underground miner a smart monitoring system to prevent the miners and the mine from any hazardous events using Internet of Things and Wireless sensor network. Various hardware and software components are used to track the condition of underground mine in real-time comprising of environment monitoring and strata monitoring. Environment monitoring modules includes prediction of seven gases like Methane, Carbon dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Sulphur dioxide, Hydrogen sulphide, Oxygen and Nitrogen oxide. Similarly strata monitoring, prediction and warning module includes real time monitoring through the proposed research could assist in detecting risks occurring in the mine environments by generating an alarm automatically when thresholds goes below or above specific limit. The paper describes hardware and software modules of the developed IoT-enabled smart monitoring system underground mines.