Mining Industry. Uses For Fiber Optic Cable In The Next Generation of Mining

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1 Mining Industry Uses For Fiber Optic Cable In The Next Generation of Mining

2 Overview Competition Commonly Mined Materials Mining Network Layout Cable Types Applications Equipment Types Connectivity Buying Influences Reasons For Using Fiber Optic Cable In Mining Mining Methods New Product Development

3 Analysis Of Competition Mohawk Dry block cable construction Tube type jacketing Not suitable for hose down applications Limited fiber counts Chromatics Gel-filled Lower price for lower design performance AFL No design for vertical applications (1000m) Limited fiber counts Tube type jacketing

4 COMMONLY MINED MATERIALS Coal Sand and Gravel Iron Ore Aluminum Ore Copper Ore Silver Ore Gold Ore Clay Gypsum Phosphate Salt Potash Zinc Lead

5 MINING Mining Network NETWORK Layout LAYOUT Surface Surface BELT BELT HEAD HEAD BELT HEAD BELT HEAD BELT HEAD Non- Intrinsically Safe Areas (Out-BY) BELT HEAD BELT head SECTION BELT FEEDER Longwall BELT HEAD head SECTION BELT SECTION BELT FEEDER Intrinsically Safe areas (In-By) Continuous Miner

6 Cable Types and Applications

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8 Mine Monitoring Fiber Optic Cable Fiber Optic Cable Fiber Optic Cable Fiber Optic Cable Fiber Optic Cable

9 Fiber Optic Cable Fiber Optic Cable Fiber Optic Cable Voice Communication System

10 Miner Tracking Systems About Miner Tracking An electronic safety and tracking system designed specifically for mining environments to track underground or above ground, personnel and equipment The system tracks tags carried by personnel or attached to vehicles as they move through the mine

11 What It Does Industry standard approved radio frequency identification (RFID) tags transmit identifying signals to (Readers) located at strategic points throughout The mine readers transmit the location information to systems with monitors for displaying information in map or table format

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13 Miner Tracking System Layout Top View Antennas Readers Fiber Optic Cable

14 To Outside Mine Office Side View Fiber Optic Cable Sections Fiber Optic Cable Fiber Optic Cable Mine Workings Fiber Optic Cable

15 Underground Mining Equipment

16 Continuous Miner

17 Continuous Haulage

18 Longwall

19 Face Conveyor

20 Aggregate Equipment

21 High Frequency Screens

22 Surface Mining Equipment

23 Dragline

24 Bucket Wheel Excavators

25 Highwall Mining System

26 Connectivity

27 F-LINK Fiber Optic and Electrical Interconnect System Features Male Plug, Female Receptacle Female Plug, Male Receptacle Socket / Pin Insert Cap Blank Cavities Socket / Pin Insert Cap Provisioned Cavities LINK Fiber Optic 1.25mm Termini M39029 Electrical Pin and Socket contacts

28 Benefits Fiber Only Copper Only Electro-Optical Ethernet Suitable for harsh rugged environments

29 Buying Influences Electrical Engineer Chief Electricians Maintenance Superintendent Master Mechanics

30 Why Fiber Optic Cable In Mining Environments Modern and Efficient Mining Facilities Utilize improved control methods and increased mechanization to achieve maximum productivity Fiber optic cable designed for harsh environments increases the reliability of communication systems to monitor, analyze and control the equipment and facilities during the mining process Result in increased safety, production rates, and yields

31 Production Increased material volumes, long distances, high performance and growing demands Requires faster and more reliable communications Fiber optic communications systems are suited to collect real time data from environmental and equipment sensors to ensure peak production and maintaining safety standards Higher bandwidth requirements are driving the transition from copper based to fiber optic based system for highest quality signal

32 Next Generation of Mining and Equipment Transmit data over greater distances and at higher data rates Information can be displayed and streamlined Allowing operators to make faster, safer, and more effective decision-making based on real time events Controlling, monitoring, recording data help system and preventative maintenance management to reduce down time and costs increasing productivity and improving safety

33 Mining Methods

34 OCC/SMP SWDS for Mining/Industrial Operations

35 Introduction: The opportunity for OCC/SMP integrated products used jointly to produce a generalized infrastructure suitable for mining and other harsh environment applications. This is an extension of the existing cellular distribution system technology currently entering beta test at he University of South Florida.

36 Objective: Easily deployable hardened enclosure containing active hardware (WLAN Access Point, Wireless Amplifier, Fiber-Copper Media Converters) that requires 120v ac power to be provided during installation Preterminated fiber optic cable to daisy chain and provide network backbone Spatially distributed multi-antennas to increase coverage in areas of poor range

37 Benefits for the End-user: A broadband network infrastructure for wired and or wireless Knowledge of mobile user location as network connectivity to an enclosure correlates to a specific region. This can be ascertained by inspection of basic network router features

38 Features Plug and play broadband system for networking infrastructure Mobile users on different areas would access the network from access points Distributed antenna system provides increased coverage for poor propagation environments Preterminated fiber optic cables may be used to daisy chain enclosures together Power over Ethernet will be integrated into the enclosure with bulkhead RJ45 connectors providing network connectivity with only one copper cable for cameras

39 Other sensors may be integrated through 10/100 MBit/s (Such as CO) System is easily expandable as lengths increase with degradation to bandwidth Uses conventional IP phones Passive antennas remove active components from dangerous regions such as near the face where methane and CO may be present

40 Mining Test Hardware

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44 Test Summary 1000 by 300 foot WLAN operational Range Underground Deployed in 10 Minutes (120VAC, Antenna Placement and Ethernet Uplink Only) Placed Skype IP phone calls from 450 feet& 2 miles underground

45 Questions

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