Rajant and ESG Solutions revolutionize seismic monitoring for underground mines

Rajant and ESG Solutions (ESG) have completed successful underground mine testing at the Norcat health and safety center in Sudbury, Ont. This collaboration showcases the integration of ESG's precision time protocol (PTP) with Rajant's wireless network, which the developers believe is a significant advancement in underground mine monitoring.

Traditional wireless networks struggle with PTP, which is essential for precise time synchronization. Rajant’s kinetic mesh, however, ensures reliable PTP performance, providing microsecond precision necessary for advanced automation in mining.

ESG’s director of engineering Chris Hawryluck said, “Offering to our mining clients wireless PTP time synchronization of our micro-seismic data, as well as the wireless transfer of the data, will give customers the flexibility to rapidly and cost-effectively expand a micro-seismic monitoring system to new excavations in a mine and lower network maintenance costs.”

Rajant sales director for Canada Darrell Gillis said both PTP and wireless communications are critical for large-scale automation. “Rajant's extremely low-latency and high-reliability are essential for enabling wireless PTP over multi-hop, mobile wireless networks.”

These technological advancements will be showcased at MINExpo 2024 in Las Vegas from Sept. 24-26, 2024. Visitors can explore Rajant's innovations at Booth #10741.

For more information, visit www.Rajant.com and www.ESGSolutions.com.