Automatic robotic scanning and inspection mechanism for mines using IoT.

Abstract

Abstract The mining industry has been recognized as one of the most hazardous industry. With the growth of the industry, the number of human casualties has increased. The mines can be very lethal for workers or in the event of an accident or with high humidity and temperature leading to workers fainting. Some of the problems that besets are of air blast, ground movement, dust explosion, inundation etc. This study reviews the common problems associated with Carbon Monoxide content with temperature and humidity. In this paper, we assemble an automatic robotic scanning and inspection mechanism for mines that is designed and assembled to recognize Carbon Monoxide (CO), humidity and temperature variance inside the mines. The proposed system employees a mobile robot that can be manually controlled by a self-developed mobile application and an Internet of Things (IoT) system. The sensors included take the input from the air and transmit them to the mobile application using Bluetooth module. The experimental results show that the IoT achieved an accuracy of 97.5 % for the mobile robot and the sensor system.