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ABSTRACT
This paper deals with a periphery surveillance system, which has been developed and deployed by CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, India as an aid for keeping constant vigilance on a selected area even in adverse weather conditions like foggy weather, rainy weather, dusty environment, etc. The developed system consists of a frequency modulated continuous wave radar with 400 m range, a pan-tilt-camera, a wireless sensor network, a fast dedicated graphics processing unit, and a display unit. It is capable of controlling illegal mining, theft of minerals, and ensuring safety and security of the mine to a great extent. When an intrusion is detected, the system automatically gives audio-visual warning at the intrusion site where the radar is installed as well as in the control room. The system has the facility to record the intrusion data and video footage with timestamp events in the form of log.
Acknowledgements
Authors are grateful to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India for financial support to develop the surveillance system (grant number 13(2)/2013-CC&BT). They are also immensely indebted to the General Manager and other concerned officials of North Eastern Coalfields, Margherita, Assam, India for providing the necessary data and extending logistic support, and permitting field experimentation of the developed system at Tirap Opencast Coal Mine. Authors are also thankful to the Director, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, India for his valuable guidance.
Disclosure statement
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Notes on contributors
Pritam Kumar Singh received his post- graduation (M.Sc.) degree first class in physics with electronic as a specialization from the Vinoba Bhabe University, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India. He is working on his Ph.D from the Department of physics at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India, under the supervision of Dr. V. K. Singh. He also worked for the CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, India. His research focuses on the designing and characterization of fiber optic sensor, optical fiber communications, microwave radar system, and wireless communication technologies system for mining industries.
Dr. S. K. Chualya has been working as a scientist since 1993 at CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, India. His fields of research include the design and development of communication, monitoring, control, and automation systems for mines and allied industries. He has completed B. Tech. from NIT-Karnataka, M. Tech. and Ph. D. from IIT-BHU. He has co-authored two books entitled “Wireless communication in underground mines: RFID-based sensor networking” published by Springer, USA in 2009, and “Sensing and Monitoring Technologies for Mines and Hazardous Areas”, published by Elsevier, the USA in 2010. He has published 43 research papers in international cited journals, 44 papers in national journals, 31 papers in international conferences, and 58 papers in national conferences. There are 28 national and international patents in his credit.
Dr. V. K. Singh received his M.Sc. degree in physics with electronics as a specialization from Bhagalpur University, Bihar. After receiving a M.Phil degree and Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, he became a senior lecturer in the Department of Applied Physics, IIT(ISM), and thereafter became an associate professor. His areas of research are fiber optics and design and fabrication and characterization of PCFs. He has published 150 numbers of papers in different journals and conferences.