Mine disaster and accident

Miner's life safety is threatened

Severely affecting the  production efficiency

Problems Caused by High Risks in the Coal Industry Problems Caused by High Risks in the Coal Industry 

As the major coal producer in the world, China reached annual coal output ofnearly 3.5 billion tons in 2011, accounting for about 37% of the world 's totalcoal output, and maintains the high growth and high profit trend.

Due to its production characteristics, the coal industry has high risks such asthe permeable, roof fall, fire protection /extinguishing, coal and gas pop-out,gas and coal-dust explosion and so on, and the million tons death rate remainshigh

Although IT system has a good foundation, it is still in urgent need of strengtheninginformation exchange and sharing between the various systems to meet safetymonitoring, emergency rescue, production and management automation and otherneeds

Industry consolidation leads to the trend of large group development. In the process ofindustry concentration, overall information integration needs to be improved.

Industry Status

Six Systems

Mine communication system

Mine water supply rescue system

Mine compressed air self-rescue system

Monitoring and control system

Underground personnel positioning system

Underground emergency hedge system

It is becoming the focus of attention in the coal industry, and also the key point of the coalindustry IT systemsto build coal mine underground hedge system for effectively monitoring, forecasting anddealing with various disasters.

In 2011, the State Administration of Work Safety and State Administration of CoalMine Safetyjointly issued the Basic Specifications for Construction of Coal Mine UndergroundHedge facilities("Six Systems“)(Trial)

Mandatorily required 

to be compliant before end of 

June 2013.

Focus of coal industry IT Applications

Mine production automation 

Monitoring and control of mine 

environment safety

Enterprise management 

and office automation

Simple networking model

Enterprise standard 

phaseLack of uniform 

standards

Informationisland

Incompatiblebetween systems

Relatively weak 

monitoring technology 

Digitalgap

Digitalgap

Difficulty in underground  

data acquisition

Difficulty in underground  

data acquisition

Active demand for emergency rescueActive demand for emergency rescue

Scattered information  resources and lower utilization rate

Scattered information  resources and lower utilization rate

Digitalgap

Difficulty in underground  

data acquisition

Active demand for emergency rescue

Scattered information  resources and lower utilization rate

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To provide effective protection for Intrinsic Safety Mine

To provide technical support for the realization of scientific and intelligent coal production management

To improve mine safety and production level

To replace personnel for high-risk work

Positioning and tracking of vehicle and personnel 

Remote monitoring, early warning and rescue

Production automation control

Significance and role of M2M

Humane Care Targeted

Application status of existing mine M2M

Enabling capabilities of M2M devices and network technologies has reached application level

Automatic co-action of mining area systems as the prototype of M2M has a goodfoundation

Underground wireless communication system is more PHS – lack of the supportof data communication, and technically fall behind the mainstream wirelesscommunication technology of public network (3G)

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Rich source of sensors – maybe the richest in all industrial environment, butinsufficient intelligence causes limited monitoring capacity of the environmentand equipments

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M2M standalone can not solve all production and safety problems5

Bottleneck which affects further promotion and application of M2M in the coal industry is not technology or budget, but to convince decision-makers of mining area with further economic benefits of the M2M.

Video surveillance

Early warning

Safety monitoring

Emergency rescue communications

Attendance and positioning

Three-dimensional visualization

Production dispatch

Mechanical and electrical 

management

Integrated industrial automation control

Logistics management

Office automation

Automation control

Safety control 

Production organization 

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Monitor gas concentration, fan status and other parameters, and display them inthe ground workstation, reduce the underground inspection and on-dutypersonnel and help leaders and dispatchers grasp timely the production safetysituation. The entire system will play an important role in providing safety,improving production efficiency and other aspects.

With RF transmission and digital encoding identification technology, the system cansuccessfully identify the underground personnel and dynamic targets and reflect thedynamic situations of personnel and equipments in all underground areas to theground computer system, thus to enable management personnel to keep abreast ofdistribution of underground personnel and equipments and trajectory of each miner, soit is an important means to improve mine management level.

Monitoring

Management

Attendance statistics

Display

Alarm management

Information networking

Main functions:

Output monitoring system is mainly divided into four categories:

Truck scale measurement

Applicable to adit coal 

output mine 

1 Track measurement

Applicable to inclined coal output 

mine

2 Shaft skip measurement

Applicable to shaft coal 

output mine

3 Belt weightermeasuring

Applicable to belt coal 

output mine

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工业以太环网

High growth and high profits to support long term M2M investment

Coal mine application basis and M2M technology development can already provide good support for intelligent mine deployment

Government regulation attaches great importance to coal production safety

M2M technology can effectively enhance the safety level of coal production

Need to accelerate the maturity level of mine M2M 

applications and devices

Need to further explore the integration value of 

M2M and mine safety production

Strengthen government supervision to urge coal 

mines to improve safety and management by 

approaches including M2M

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2

3

Diverse network access mode

Unified data interface

Combine operable, maintainable network with 

applications

Systematical and complete

application architectureIntrinsic needs of ICT industryInevitable requirement of coal industry conglomeration and concentration improvementNot the core interest of individual mine operators

New sensor extension layer technol

ogy

Multiple network access modes

Business needs

ApplicationArchitecture

Technical requirements

Production automation safety monitoringand management 

informationization…

Definition: scope, user and typeApplication framework: system architecture and component function

Network technical requirementsSensor extension layer technical requirementsSafety and QoS requirements

WLAN2G、3G、4GADSL，Ethernet gateway research……

RFIDZigbeeBluetooth…

With the development of sensors, sensor networks, mobile communications and automatic controltechnology, development trend of M2M applications in the coal industry will have the followingcharacteristics:

With increasingly improved bandwidth, coverage and disaster tolerance capacity of the mobile communication network, mobile broadband data network will be extended throughout the mine.

With the maturity of MEMS technology, it will achieve sensing of temperature, pressure, light, gas composition and other environmental parameters in small dimensions to lay a foundation for the multi-function integration of terminal.

The terminal carried by underground staff will be integrated with mobile communications, mobile office, precise positioning, equipment management, environmental monitoring, physical monitoring, disaster warning, hedge navigation and other functions and is characterized by lightweight and miniaturization.

1. Highly automated and intelligent network to support the intelligent mine

3. Miniaturization and intelligence of sensor

4. Multi-function integration of terminals

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Intelligent applications for mine production automation and safety monitoring will be morewidely deployed with the integration level and co-action level being further developed

2. More versatile and integrated applications

With the development of concepts such as M2M and IoT, how do relevant technical standards provide supports for coal industry 

applications?

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Integrated information system

Improve production efficiency

Provide safety control

Convenience and flexibility of management control

Intelligence