Object position tracking based on e-map and RFID in coal mine

Abstract

Because of the special environment and the risk of accident in the coal mine, some of the major problems that concern the people are the safety production, managing and rescuing workers under the mine. To solve these problems, this paper brings out the Underground Personnel Position System with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification technology). RFID is a new wireless communication technology and widely applied in other industry. The technology can be used to automatically identify the information of the workers, locate their positions on time and record their tracks, which can improve the information management level of the coal mine greatly and provide the necessary information for management and rescuing.In addition, GIS is also used to provide a visual window to assist the Position System to make a more convenient management on the workers' location. It is clear that the GISbased Mine Safety Management Information System can absolutely achieve a better impact with the seamless link of spatial data whose format is called SHP and some else property data. And the system can greatly improve the efficiency of the mine safety management. Index Terms-RFID, Position System, coal mine, GIS I. ISSUES RAISED A.Background for the Development of the System Production safety in the underground coal mines has been always a bearing on people's lives and property. People have attached great importance to this issue for a long time and taken a series of measures to continuously strengthen the production safety. Although continuous efforts related to a variety of coal mine safety have been applied, the situation of the coal mine production safety is still not optimistic for various reasons. Particularly, serious accidents due to coal mine safety management and oversight are still occurring. How to change the present out-dated management style in which coal companies manage the workers and materials in the underground mines and how to achieve the modernization and informationization of management has become a concern of all coal mine enterprises. So as to the establishment of disaster prevention and management of electronic information especially the system for life rescue, building the intelligent object position information management system for these enterprises becomes imperative.However, well-known and commonly used traditional positioning system GPS is limited by the target's acquisition for the satellite signal, while the satellite signal is not accessible on the underground floor of the mine. With continuous development of RFID technology, people find a new solution on the issue to the location in the underground coal mine. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a non-contact automatic identification technology. Through the radio frequency signal of RFID, automatic target identification can be carried out quickly as well as tracking goods and data exchange. RFID technology can identify objects in high-speed movement and also identify a number of tags at the same time quickly and conveniently. It does not need any human i...

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