Smart Safety Helmet for Protecting Lives of Workers in Mining Industry

Mining industry is considered as a very significant sector in business field comprising various complicated process and situations which leads to safety critical aspects in industry. The real time scenario has been reported in Dhanbad, related to disaster of mines which impacts several vendors and employers in that mining industry. Similarly the external environmental conditions related to temperature, pressure variations also play a significant role which the miners inside the industry may not be aware. In such critical situations, miners may be affected by collapse of mining object or hard rocks, inhalation of hazardous gases and toxic gas explosion, which may be considered as risk factors with mining industry. This is of paramount importance, both for the wellbeing of the employees and that of the corporation as a whole. Therefore, a smart helmet system is proposed in this study that discriminate the hazardous gases in the industry and the performance measures are evaluated to protect the miners from various accidents. This study mainly focuses on implementing the IoT technology to monitor the mine supervision system. The aim of this work is to develop a helmet monitoring system for mining. The real time sensor data's are extracted by the surveillance system and the presence of toxic gases in the mining region are detected in an early stage. Thus, the proposed system provides an alarm sound on buzzer on detecting hazardous gas and also displays the performance measures in the LCD placed in the supervisor unit. The proposed design is also built with radio frequency transmitter in which the potential hazards monitored are transmitted using IoT sends to alert the base station