IoT Mining Tracking and Workers Safety Helmet

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.