Underground Mine Remote Control

Overview

Mining operations are deployed with sophisticated industrial controls and sensors for safety and operations efficiency. These sites must work around the clock to be operationally efficient and productive and must experience minimal downtime due to communication failures. With the severe environmental conditions underground, the networking of mining areas requires rugged, anti-vibration specifications of devices to ensure complete control of loading operations while securely transferring data.

To meet all these requirements, Korenix Industrial Embedded Front-end Linux computers have been chosen by the coal mine drilling company to integrate in the networking infrastructure for remotely monitoring engineering data, providing real-time device and process control and connecting to personnel tracking throughout the mines.

To connect and remotely manage PLCs, gas flow meters, thermal detectors and other environment-controlling devices in the underground mining sites, Korenix JetBox 5432-w embedded VPN routing computers have been used, capable of providing high quality data transfer through serial ports. For ensuring digital connectivity of sensors, alarms and other devices, JetBox 3300-w series with integrated DIO interface further completed the network infrastructure. With their small size, they have been easily integrated in small front-end control systems.

By collecting all the information in the system, the JetBox 5432 series using their complete Layer3 routing and VPN functionalities, operated as networking gateways to securely expend networking capabilities to the control center through wireless dongle or through LAN, and therefore, allowing administrators to manage the systems remotely from the control centers. The built-in Linux OS of the computers further provided easy network maintenance and fast remote access for the administrators. Besides, using the Linux SDK functionality, they were able to develop their own programmable front-end controller applications.

By supporting wide operating temperature range and rugged design with resistance to shock and vibration, they performed reliably in harshest conditions of underground sites becoming the best solutions for real-time mining area control.

Main Products ★JetBox 5432-w Embedded Serial VPN Linux Computer ★JetBox 3300-w Embedded Compact 2 LAN & 2 Serial Linux Computer Why JetBox 5432-w ★Embedded Linux Ready for easy maintenance ★VPN routing for enhanced secure networking ★Embedded Linux ready for easy maintenance ★Serial, Ethernet for networking, data storage, device control ★Rugged fanless design and -40~80oC op. temp Why JetBox 3300-w ★Compact-size for easy integration in a small front-end control system ★DIO for digital device connection ★Rugged design for anti-vibration/shock, -40~80oC op. temp.