Underground Mine Remote Control
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
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.
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