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Assessing the Feasibility of a Commercially Available Wireless Internet of Things System to Improve Conveyor Safety

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  • Alternative Title:
    Min Metall Explor
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    Conveyor systems persist in being a source of injuries and fatalities in the mining industry. To reduce these incidents, better methods are needed to enhance the monitoring of probable hazards and improve situational awareness during the normal operation and maintenance of conveyor systems. To address these issues, researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) continue to investigate emerging technologies that show the potential to improve miner safety around conveyors. This paper presents a feasibility assessment by NIOSH researchers of a fully integrated, commercially available wireless Internet of Things (IoT) system to improve situational awareness around conveyor systems. Included are discussions of a full-scale laboratory test bed that was designed to simulate a working conveyor system as well as the challenges and successes of integrating the IoT system with the test bed.
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  • Source:
    Min Metall Explor. 38:567-574
  • Pubmed ID:
    34734164
  • Pubmed Central ID:
    PMC8563013
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
  • Funding:
    CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
  • Volume:
    38
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    urn:sha256:0716c364900c31d29c8ad6c657a383775a7d82d0bd71b9d302f664e83dd5d742
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