East Mining announced that Vostochnaya Mining Company has implemented a project to improve the quality of communications at its mining asset, the Solntsevsky coal mine. The project is aimed at ensuring the stable operation of the ASD Quarry system. For communication coverage, Wi-Fi is used with the use of MESH seamless roaming technology along the entire perimeter of the cut. 100% coverage made it possible to increase by almost 10 times the speed of data transfer between the equipment and the automatic dispatching system at the cut from 2 minutes to 15 seconds.

The company started the implementation of the main part of the project to cover communications in the open pit at the beginning of this year. During this time, specialists of the Eastern Mining Company studied the key factors affecting the quality of communication at each point of the Solntsevsky coal mine. The entire contour of interaction was analyzed, starting with the formation of data by sensors of various telemetry installed on dump trucks and excavators, and ending with the receipt of information in the database of the ASD Karyer system. The complexity of the project was in the presence of the characteristics of the mountainous terrain: the average depth of the section is 200 meters, the elevation differences reach 300 meters. As a result, the location of all communication towers was revised, proven world practices in frequency planning were adapted and applied to eliminate the mutual negative influence of the towers.

The new level of high-quality communication coverage will additionally improve the efficiency of mining equipment and optimize costs. With the introduction of 100% communication coverage, new standards for the installation of communication equipment on dump trucks and excavators were additionally developed. With the introduction of an automatic dispatching system, navigation and accounting tools were installed on all units of equipment, allowing to take into account the volume of mining operations, transportation distances, downtime, idle runs, and fuel consumption. All data from all machines via a communication system is sent to a single dispatch center, from where automated control and accounting of all operations is carried out.