Wireless technologies improve mine safety

摘要

Information and communications technology company GijimaAst's mining division (GMSI) and Tronimex Data Technologies have partnered to develop a locally innovated radio-frequency identification-(RFID-) based management system that is currently being implemented at iron-ore-miner Kumba's Sishen mine, in the Northern Cape. The Wireless Event Management System (Wems) can be used, besides other applications, for the access control or key control of operators to mining and manufacturing equipment.