Prototyping IOT Based Smart Wearable Jacket Design for Securing the Life of Coal Miners

Engineer is the person who is always keen interested in providing best alternative solution to any social problem to meet the scarcity. Keeping this mindset and visualizing social problems in Pakistan and other several countries; it is observed that annually several people die working inside coal mines. By identifying this problem, this paper suggests a wearable smart jacket design for securing the life of coal miners in Pakistan. This Prototype senses the various health related parameters i.e. the presence of hazardous gas, pulse rate of miner, updated temperature/humidity, exact depth location & global positioning of miner. These all parameters will be then transmitted through a Wi-Fi shield to a dynamic internet protocol. In this way, one may monitor all labors working inside the mines and moreover in case of disaster the life of miner can be secured immediately. This proposed wearable embedded system will not only send the last GPS location to a specific IP but will also send continuous update of pulse rate of miner which is sensed by pulse sensor; to base camp hence if someone dig the coal mine in case of disaster, they may set the priority to retain maximum life back from a coal mine.