G. H.

Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur

(An Autonomous Institute under UGC Act 1956)
Department of Electronics Engineering

Industrial Progress Seminar of 6 Months Internship 2017

Under the Guidance of

Prof. Smith Khare

Name of Students
Abhijeet Kharbade (Sem8/ETRX/A-24)
Guarav Parate (Sem8/ETRX/A-41)
Morut Ramteke (Sem8/ETRX/A-52)
 Contents

• Introduction of Organisation
• WCL Technologies
 Introduction of Organisation.
• Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) is one of the eight
Subsidiary Companies of Coal India Limited (CIL) which is
under administrative control of Ministry of Coal.
• WCL has been conferred "Miniratna" status on 15th
March'2007. The Company has contributed about 7.02% of
the national coal production during 2015-16.
• It has mining operation spread over the states of Maharashtra
(in Nagpur, Chandrapur & Yeotmal Districts) and Madhya
Pradesh (in Betul and Chhindawara Districts). The Company is
a major source of supplies of coal to the industries located in
Western India in the States of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh,
Gujrat and also in Southern India in the States of Andhra
Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.
• A large numbers of Power Houses under Maharashtra,
Madhya Pradesh, Gujrat, Karnataka, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh
- Electricity Boards are major consumers of its coal along with
cement, steel, chemical, fertilizer, paper and brick Industries
in these states.
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Electronics Weight Bridge
• Electronic Weight Bridge is a large set of scales, usually mounted
permanently on a concrete foundation, that is used to weigh entire rail or
road vehicles and their contents. By weighing the vehicle both empty and
when loaded, the load carried by the vehicle can be calculated.
• The key component that uses a weighbridge in order to make the weigh
measurement is load cells.
• A load cell is a transducer that is used to create an electrical signal whose
magnitude is directly proportional to the force being measured. The various
types of load cells include hydraulic load cells, pneumatic load cells and
strain gauge load cells.
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GPS Based Vehicle Tracking System

• GPS heavy equipment tracking protects your assets from theft, misappropriation, and
hazardous conditions.
• Real-time tracking keeps managers aware of their asset locations and status information,
and historical tracking lets them view a complete history of all tracking sessions recorded
over time.
• Spatial fences of all shapes and sizes are set to restrict vehicles to a prescribed geographic
region. GPS tracking software will send alerts to a manager’s computer when a tracked
vehicle leaves a fenced zone.
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Tele-monitoring System
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Tele-monitoring System

• The Tele Monitoring System is an intrinsically safe on line telemetry system for
continuously monitoring underground coal mine environmental parameters like CO, CH4,
Oxygen, Air velocity and Temperature. The major product and components of underground
Tele-monitoring system are manufactured by M/s, Trolex Ltd., U.K. The system can be
broadly divided into three parts, namely:
. Surface Computer System
. Outstation/ Underground Remote Station (URS)
. Sensors and their associated units.

Surface Computer System

The surface computer system consists of Pentium PC (Industrial Grade), Printer, Color
Monitor, Interface Unit (Modem) with Barrier and UPS.

Barrier/Isolator
The Barrier/Isolator Unit is designed to provide a certified interface between the hazardous
Group I Area and non-hazardous Area. It provides optical isolation between the two Areas and
acts as an interface between hazardous area equipments and surface computer.
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Tele-monitoring System

Outstation/Underground Remote Station

Programmable Sensor Controller (Model –TX9042) acts as the outstation which is a low cost
Telemetry unit designed to provide analogue and digital monitoring, pilot circuit interlocking
and control. This is an Intrinsically Safe, dustproof and waterproof Unit. It accepts the
analogue voltage signal (0.4 to 2.0V) from different sensors. It has an inbuilt RS-485 port which
sends this information to the computer via Transmission hardware/Repeater & Barrier/Isolator.

Sensors & Associated Units

The Sensors (CO, Methane etc.) sense the particular parameter and convert them into
proportionate analogue voltage signal (0.4 to 2.0 volt). These signals are fed to the Outstation
(Programmable Sensor controller), which in-turn convert these signals into digital form and
then sends to the surface computer for data logging and display on the monitor.
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MPLS – Multiple Protocol Label Switching

• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is an Internet Engineering Task Force specified

framework that provides for the designation, routing, forwarding and switching of traffic
flows through the network.

• It is a set of procedures for augmenting and improving the speed of routers, however it is
now being developed as a crucial standard that is offering new capabilities for large-scale
networks. MPLS acts as the shorthand expression of an IP packet’s header; it specifies
mechanisms to manage traffic flows between different hardware devices.

• MPLS enables enterprises to build next-generation networks that are intelligent to deliver a
variety of advanced value-added services over one single infrastructure. This solution can be
integrated over existing infrastructures including ATM, SONET, FR, IP, or Ethernet
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Video Conference
The Multi Conference Unit Service (MCU) is a large unit service that
allows meetings, conferences and large-scale gatherings to be broadcast
to anyone with an Internet connection. This means that you can host
and attend multipoint videoconferences from anywhere in the world
allowing for global collaboration.
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Dragline
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Slope Stability Radar
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IOT Technology in Coal Mine Safety(Ongoing Project)
IoT in Mines for Safety and Efficient Monitoring
INTRODUCTION
The primary factor in running any industry successfully is to ensure the
safety of person working that work area. Underground mining industry comes to
the same category, where each and every parameter such as methane gas, high
temperature, fire accidents and so on has to monitor regularly. Every mining
industry follows some basic precautions to avoid any type of unwanted
phenomena. In this paper we are considering above mentioned situations and
also monitoring mine workers activities e.g. Fall Detector that states workers
position. A major improvement is to implement internet of things in collecting
and plotting parameter and sensor values to web servers.

This IoT system is planned by bearing in mind all these factors i.e. it can measure
temperature, sense pressure, fire, gas, humidity, as well as Persons Fall. Thus the
intended system is giving a very good solution for most of the difficulties
challenged in mine calamities.
An efficient communication system must be set between mine workers and Remote Base
Station For this wired network communication is inefficient in underground mining areas.
Thus we are selecting a wireless network system built on Radio Frequency communication at
2.4 GHz (ESP8266-01 Module is a Wi-Fi Trans-Receiver module which offers easy to use
RF links at 2.4 GHz) that enable us to put sensed data into web server.

Interfacing Block Representation of Device.

 HARDWARE DESCRIPTION

ARM7 MICROCONTROLLER LPC2148

We use an ARM7 based microcontroller which is important in processing instructions

given as a firmware. The MCU sense the change in physical parameters and process
them to convert into digital form. The conversion can also be from analog data or an
interrupt in data signal or a digital signal. If temperature exceeds a safety level pre-
programmed at microcontroller, alert is sent to ground station controller make sense of,
alarms the speaker interfaced with MCU. If the measured humidity value is more than
the safety limits at microcontroller; it alerts with alarms. Likewise when gas
concentration crosses threshold limit MCU decodes siren alarms. When a working
person falls down for any reason fall sensor will alert by alarm to nearer areas and also
to ground control section through Wi-Fi repeaters. Light sensor helps in setting PWM
controlled torch lamp, which senses depending on the light intensity. Fire Sensor helps in
stopping fire accidents and rapid spreading by detecting fire and feed alert to main
station that helps in taking essential precautions. LCD display interfaced will show all
the parameters like temperature, humidity etc., on wearable device.
A. SENSORS
1) Temperature Sensor (LM35):
A Linear LM35 is used to record temperature at constant interval of time. It is an
accurate temperature sensor with an output voltage linearly proportional to Centigrade
temperature. The analog voltage to digital sample data conversion is handled by
LPC2148 and the obtained digital value will be sent on the LCD display connected to
LPC 2148.
3) Humidity Sensor:
This sensor will give analog output proportional to relative humidity, the amount of water
vapor in the air. The humidity sensor HSM-20G is of resistive type. It is an analog humidity
and temperature sensor that outputs analog voltage respects to relative humidity and
temperature

4) Fire sensor:
Fire sensor will sense heat radiations in surroundings. The sensor is used to detect any trace
of fire and it will give interrupt signal as soon as it detects Fire in underground regions. It
works on the principle of IR rays or Heat radiation detection.

5) MQ-4 Semiconductor Sensor for Natural Gas

For detection of most natural gases like Methane, also to Propane and Butane which are the
major toxic gases in underground coal mines this gas sensor interfaced. It has 6 pins; 4 of
them are used to bring signals and other 2 are used for supplying heating current.
B. ESP8266 MODULE
The updating web data through ESP8266 modem when interfaced with microcontroller or
PC is much simpler as compared with Ethernet module since ESP is a SoC and Integrated
TCP/IP protocol stack. AT firmware is provided with easy to use command set with which
it can be configured or operated at various Baud Rate (Supported 9600, 115200 or 57600).
Plain Text may be sent through the modem by interfacing only three signals of the serial
interface of modem with microcontroller (TxD, RxD and GND). In this scheme RTS and
CTS signals of serial port interface of ESP Modem are connected with one another. The
transmit signal of serial port of microcontroller is connected with of the serial interface
receive signal (RxD) of ESP Modem while receive signal of microcontroller serial port is
connected with transmit signal (TxD) of serial interface of ESP Modem.

ESP8266 Module
C. LCD INTERFACING

Here we have interfaced a character based 16x2 LCD for displaying information
regarding different parameters like Temperature, Humidity etc.

LCD with Sensor Information

 SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION

The core firmware is developed for Bare Metal microcontroller and flashed to internal
rom. Firmware is written Embedded C language. And whole project is designed keil
product development tools such as keil IDE, armcc cross-compiler for ARM controllers.
Phillips Flash loader for burning firmware to ROM. HyperTerminal used as serial port
client for purpose of debugging hard-software effectively

A. About Keil IDE

Keil is free software that solves many of the pain points for an embedded programmer.
This is an integrated development environment (IDE) software that integrated a text editor
to write, a compiler to compile it and convert source code to hex files

B. About HyperTerminal
The HyperTerminal tool is used to monitor Serial Ports in PC. Terminal software is mainly
used for initial setup of Wi-Fi module, i.e. to update setting or updating AT firmware for
ESP module provided from manufacture. It also helpful in debugging the functionalities of
prototype of our project. Thus at the Remote station the collected data from Wi-Fi Receive
is displayed as mentioned in the Results section.
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CONCLUSIONS

The present underground Mines system can be productively substituted by this IoT
safety system proposed in this paper. This IoT system enclosed the utmost Key and
major feature of currently deployed mine workers safety. Since this system is made
of low power Wi-Fi module and control lamp with PWM technique, proportion of
power consumption is lowered, which is significant for any device that is powered
by battery. Additional safety can be delivered to data servers and maintained
accurate information of mines.
Thank You !