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The need for improving mining communications technology has become apparent over the past several years. Miners continue to lose their lives in mine disasters pertaining to challenging environmental conditions. There is loss in productivity due to manual tracking. As Global Positioning System (GPS) signals cannot penetrate into the ground, they cannot be used inside the mines. Employing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) network further increases deployment and installation overhead along with a separate network for tracking. Hence, a cost-effective hybrid Wi-Fi location tracking network is proposed which can seamlessly integrate with the existing 802.11 communication infrastructure. The proposed system employs Wi-Fi technology to estimate the location of miners by Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) method with higher accuracy and coverage area than conventional RFID method of tracking. It can also be used for asset tracking and increasing productivity, thereby overcoming the constraints of proprietary network solutions.
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I would like to thank Mr. Vijay Jethani (Regional Manager, Mumbai) in a leading IT company of India for his kind efforts in the perusal of my project. I would also like to extend my gratitude to Mr. Abir Bhowmick (Technical Lead) and Mr. Prosun Chakraborty for helping me and guiding me whenever required.
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Haidery, A., Bakade, K. (2016). Hybrid Miner Tracking System at 2.4 GHz for Underground Mines. In: Satapathy, S., Joshi, A., Modi, N., Pathak, N. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 409. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0135-2_44
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