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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
The mining
industry is crucial to the global economy. However, it is not one of the safest
industries in which to work. The life of mining workers is constantly under
risk. The goal of this work is to provide urgent assistance to the distressed
miners. The miner's helmet can be improved more effectively by including a
wireless sensor mote and other necessary sensors, which will aid in tracking
the miner's health. This can result in the development of a network of wireless
sensors. This wireless sensor network (WSN) can be used to track the well-being
of all miners on the site. The routing protocol developed for this project is
based on Distance Vector Routing (DVR) and determines the optimum path based on
the shortest hop. The protocol is also robust in terms of failures. The nodes
do not need to be synchronized. The protocol takes proactive measures to reduce
delays. The helmet's mote tries to send a distress signal to its Room Manager
via the pre-stored route whenever the load on the force sensor is greater than
a threshold value. Officials from the Health Centre can send a medical team in
response to a miner's distress alert via Room Manager. The miners in the
adjacent rooms are also alerted so that they might volunteer to assist. The
mote occasionally was unable to determine how to get to its room manager. A
failed recovery procedure is carried out in these situations.
Country : India
IRJIET, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2023 pp. 289-292