MineCom - Wireless Automation, Personnel Tracking and Leaky Feeder Communication Systems

MineCom, 'The Leaky Feeder People™', is the industry leader and innovator in the design of electronics, wireless automation and communications equipment for use in confined spaces, mines and tunnels.

MineCom is an ISO9001-2000 accredited company offering innovative, flexible, cost effective solutions for communications or special projects. MineCom operates factories in Australia and South Africa, with sales and service centres strategically located around the world providing complete turn-key project solutions.

MINE AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS

MineCom manufactures a range of mine automation solutions, including tracking, truck loading, skip and cage controllers and decline traffic management.

PERSONNEL AND VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEMS

MineCom tracking solutions are being used to improve safety in the workplace from the tracking of personnel, vehicles in mines, to tracking untreated ore and coal in both underground hard rock and open cut coal mines. The technology has been adapted to track recyclable materials and refuse in cities to tracking wild animals. MineCom offers both the hardware and software for its tracking solutions.

ePROX personnel tagging utilising very small rugged RFID tags with a range of tag board readers, some offering inbuilt LCD displays to display blast warnings, evacuation alarms, personal or job related messages to miners as they tag IN / OUT / THROUGH.

TELTag personnel and vehicle tagging system, offering a range of powered tag transmitters. Tags can be powered from a cap-lamp battery, or an internal lithium battery version. A range of wireless and fibre based display and non-display readers are available.

LAMPS Intrinsically Safe approved, personnel and vehicle tagging system powered from an internal lithium battery with a two year life. Tag readers are linked by fibre optic backbone.

PERSONNEL SAFETY SYSTEMS

SMARTPDS – personnel detection system designed to prevent accidents and injuries to miners working near automated or semi-automated mine equipment.

HAULTag and HAULTag PLUS – collision avoidance systems designed to prevent accidents between large haul trucks and 4WD vehicles. It also prevents rear-end accidents between haul trucks.

WIRELESS AUTOMATION SYSTEMS

TELData – electronically tracks the movements of LHDs and dump trucks, logging and transmitting the collected data (load/dump locations, load weight, driver ID etc) in real-time.

TELLoader – a one-man operated ore-loading station. The on-board enhanced electronic system enables the haul truck driver to automatically load and unload the vehicle in complete safety.

SMARTTraffic – a very smart modular decline traffic management system that can differentiate between loaded and unloaded ore trucks, 4WDs, emergency vehicles etc, travelling in the decline, includes an optional collision avoidance module.

SMARTCage - automated shaft control and monitoring system for ships and cages including voice communications.

TOMS – Tracking-Ore-Movement-System designed specifically for sub-level block caving mines, enabling mine staff to track the movement of the ore body after blasting has taken place.

TOMMIES – a version of TOMS, developed for tracking coal movement in open cut coal mines.

LEAKY FEEDER SYSTEMS

MineCom offers a range of communications systems that operate in the VHF - MCA1000, UHF - MCA2000, - 800Mhz - MCA3000, 2.4Ghz –MCA4000 bands.

We guarantee voice, data and video communications wherever our leaky feeder cables are installed. MineCom systems are used to monitor and control automated ore trains, automated shafts and hoists; and provide real-time video or music and sports programs from local FM/AM radio stations.

MCA1000 VHF leaky feeder system (4th generation) offers on-board drive by 'digital diagnostics'; displaying volts, current and RF levels. Recently released, the SMARTTune amplifier automatically adjusts the output level to match the cable length. Up to 500m (spacing) between amplifiers, 12V, 24V or 48V DC powered (I.S. approved in some countries).

Options include:

• SMARTAmp in-line telemetry / SCADA system
• SMARTCam in-line video camera
• SMARTTrak in-line tagging system, powered by the leaky feeder cable

MCA2000W UHF wide band leaky feeder system, voice, data, video and diagnostics

MCA2000N UHF narrow band leaky feeder system, designed to meet EU standard trunking and TETRA channel splits. 2nd generation system operates over MineCom's low cost leaky feeder cable.

MCA3000 800Mhz/HVHF/LVHF tri-band system, 800Mhz (60Mhz of trunking and data), 150Mhz and 172Mhz VHF Hi-Band, video in the VHF lo-band over a single leaky feeder cable.

MCA4000 2.4Ghz – Wi-Fi, VoIP, Ethernet utilising a mix of antennae and leaky feeder cable.

SMARTRepeater VHF and UHF 'off-air-repeater' system provides continuous communications along railway cuttings and tunnels.

TERMITE WATERPROOF VOICE RADIOS

MineCom manufactures a range of waterproof, heavy-duty radio transceivers designed specifically for mines. Termite II - waterproof, heavy-duty, two-way radio for mine vehicles. TermiteFAB – wall mounted, waterproof, heavy-duty, two-way radio for underground mine use; can be powered from a leaky feeder cable.

DATA RADIO MODEMS

We also offer a range of data radio modems for wireless automation, semi-duplex and full duplex data radio modems for high-speed data transmission, point-to-point or point-to-multipoint.

OTHER MINECOM PRODUCTS

• Mine telephones (Magneto and PABX)
• Video systems
• RF-to-fibre interfaces
• Fibre optic networks
• Two-way radio equipment