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Journal of Industrial Safety Engineering Original Research

Smart Mining Helmet

  1. Basundhara Das Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Assam Engineering College, Guwahati, Assam, India
  2. Koustuvmoni Bharadwaj Department of Mechanical Engineering, Assam Science and Technology University, Guwahati, Assam, India

Abstract

The demand for coal as energy resource is always an important and significant part in our life. However, over the years many miners have lost their lives by facing accidents during the mining process due to lack of implementation of technology and monitoring systems. Now with the development of smart technology even the mining industry is adopting the technology for the safety of the miners. Hence in this paper, we propose to develop a smart mining helmet that is both safe and convenient for the miner to use, at the same time it monitors the environment surrounding the miner. At times of emergency, it alerts the miner along with the coworkers, thus helping them avoid accidents. The helmet is loaded with temperature and humidity sensors, smoke detectors, gyroscope sensors, and ultrasonic sensors along with algorithms to simultaneously operate these sensors and alert the miner using a liquid crystal display, sound module, and buzzer.

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