Zigbee based Intelligent Helmet for Coal Miners

Supervisor: Dr. Awais Javed, Assistant Professor, EE Department, CIIT Islamabad

Abstract Project Importance and Future Work

Every year thousands of workers die in coal mines due The main objective of our project is:
the explosive nature of Methane Gas in air, if methane Software • To design an efficient system that can detect and
Hardware
level exceeds from a threshold value then it can cause alarm the workers before any dangerous condition.
an explosion, roof collapse, suffocation which is the Safety Helmet Coding of Audrino • To reduce the death rate of mine workers.
temp and humidity
major cause in the death of mine workers. So we are sensor
• To establish a robust communication system
going to design such a system which is going to alert the Sensors interfacing
with slave nodes
Coding of Audrino
for gas and hear beat
between the control room and workers.
mine workers before any kind of dangerous activity due (HC-11) using
Audrino UNO
sensor
• To provide mine workers with a warning system in
to dangerous gasses. We have designed our system for Slave nodes
Zigbee configuration case of failure of communication between mine
using XCTU
group of workers in which there is a master node on interfacing with
master node (Zigbee) workers and the control room.
using Audrino Mega
which we have placed Zigbee module, Buzzer to monitor HC-11 configuration
using Audrino This system informs the management inside the
the condition in mines and slave nodes. While the other environment along with time for the sake of what is

S
Master and slave node
communication &

group workers are wearing helmet which is our slave interfacing

going inside the mine is the case of an emergency
node on which we have placed HC-11 wireless module, Zigbee based system takes help from outside the management. And
intermediate nodes
Humidity and Temperature sensor, Gas sensor, Heart interfacing
management knows very well all of the worker's
Beat sensor. Master node will collect all the information Project Design condition through this project. In the case of critical
and transmit to control room by using point to point situation the management come out the workers before
topology on Zigbee. We have displayed all the readings The system is designed for the group of workers as we have designed
three helmets from which two of them are slave nodes (HC-11) and one is the hazards occur.
from slave nodes on GUI at control room.
a master node (Zigbee).
Introduction Slave nodes are designed in such a way as we need to transmit data at a
This project is designed for the safety of coal mine short distance so we select the HC-11 wireless module with Arduino UNO.
workers from the dangerous outcomes of Methane gas Master node or Zigbee coordinator is used to establishing a network
(CH4) and temperature conditions in coal mines lot of through which communication will start.
worker’s died. If the concentration of methane gas in air
increases from 14% and also temperature increases up-
to 50C it can cause a serious explosion in coal mines. In
early age, coal mine workers use a device that can
measure the methane gas level and temperature in coal
mines but we do need a worker to hold this device and
observe the reading. Now a days wireless technology
growing very quickly with greater accuracy at long
distances so we are going to design an intelligent helmet
that is going to send methane gas level, temperature,
humidity and text messages to control room using
wireless module Zigbee and HC-11.
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