Improving Safety For Miners By Providing A Wireless Real Time Locating System

通过提供无线实时定位系统提高矿工的安全性

• 批准号: 7271439
• 负责人: Hans Gregory Schantz
• 金额: $ 9.96万
• 依托单位: Q-TRACK CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2008-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7271439
• 关键词: Improving; Safety; Miners; Providing; Wireless

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mining is as dangerous as it is critical to our nation's economic well-being. The proposed research aims to significantly enhance workplace safety for miners by providing a real time wireless tracking and monitoring system (TAMS). A TAMS device will be worn by each miner and will provide both the miner's location and monitor real-time exposure to environmental hazards. The resulting location data will be critical in guiding rescue efforts in case of emergency, and will allow detained workflow analysis in a mine environment to improve the safety of operations. The resulting environmental data will provide both an instantaneous and cumulative measure of miners' exposure to environmental hazards. By fusing the two data sets, an unprecedented level of detailed information will be available on both the nature and location of environmental threats in the mine environment. The long term objective of the proposed research is a dramatic improvement in workplace safety for miners. The specific aim is to establish the feasibility of a wireless tracking technology suitable for use in a mine environment. The key to successful TAMS is an effective wireless tracking technology that can cope with the difficult propagation environment in mines. The proposed research will investigate using a breakthrough wireless tracking technology: near field electromagnetic ranging or "NFER". Through a combination of theoretical analysis and real world radio measurements in an abandoned mine, the proposed research aims to establish the feasibility of the TAMS concept. Further, the proposed effort includes a proof-of-concept demonstration to rigorously validate a preliminary design for the system.

描述（由申请人提供）：采矿对我们国家的经济福祉至关重要。拟议的研究旨在通过提供实时无线跟踪和监视系统（TAMS）来大大提高矿工的工作场所安全。每个矿工都会佩戴TAMS设备，并将提供矿工的位置并监控实时暴露于环境危害。最终的位置数据对于在紧急情况下指导救援工作至关重要，并且将允许在矿山环境中拘留的工作流程分析以提高操作的安全性。由此产生的环境数据将既可以为矿工暴露于环境危害的瞬时和累积衡量。通过融合两个数据集，将提供有关矿山环境中环境威胁的性质和位置的前所未有的详细信息。 拟议的研究的长期目标是矿工的工作场所安全性有了显着改善。具体的目的是建立适合在矿山环境中使用的无线跟踪技术的可行性。成功TAMS的关键是一种有效的无线跟踪技术，可以应对矿山中困难的繁殖环境。拟议的研究将使用突破性无线跟踪技术进行研究：近场电磁范围或“ NFER”。通过理论分析和现实世界无线电测量的结合，拟议的研究旨在确定TAMS概念的可行性。此外，拟议的努力包括概念验证演示，以严格验证该系统的初步设计。