Rajant and ESG Solutions have developed a successful underground mine seismic monitoring system in Ontario, Canada.
Rajant and ESG Solutions have developed a successful underground mine seismic monitoring system in Ontario, Canada.
The collaboration integrated ESG’s precision time protocol (PTP) with Rajant’s wireless network, which the developers believe is a significant advance in underground mine monitoring.
‘Traditional wireless networks struggle with PTP, which is essential for precise time synchronisation,’ said ESG in a statement. ‘Rajant’s kinetic mesh, however, ensures reliable PTP performance, providing microsecond precision necessary for advanced automation in mining.
ESG’s director of engineering Chris Hawryluck said, ‘Offering to our mining clients wireless PTP time synchronisation of our micro-seismic data, as well as the wireless transfer of the data, will give customers the flexibility to rapidly and cost-effectively expand a micro-seismic monitoring system to new excavations in a mine and lower network maintenance costs.’
Rajant sales director for Canada Darrell Gillis said both PTP and wireless communications are critical for large-scale automation. ‘Rajant’s extremely low-latency and high-reliability are essential for enabling wireless PTP over multi-hop, mobile wireless networks.’
