A virtual fencing system for a mining environment, a central processing center and a mobile processing center for the virtual fencing system

摘要

A virtual fencing system (1) includes a central processing center (2) and a mobile processing center (3) coupled to transfer data. The central processing center (2) a sensor (4) which captures real time information (5) from the mining environment, a data storage (6) which stores a geological information (7) related to the mining environment, a central processing unit (8) which receives the real time information (5) from the sensor (4) and the geological information (7) of the mining environment from the data storage (6), and processes the real time information (5) and the geological information (7), and generates a hazardous location information (9) regarding locations in the mining environment likely to be affected due to slope failures. The mobile processing center (3) includes a receiver (14) which receives a hazardous location information (9) from the central processing center (2), a mobile processing unit (15) which receives the hazardous location information (9) from the receiver (14) and compares the hazardous location information (9) with respect to a current location (12) of the mobile processing center (3) for regulating movement of the mobile processing center (3) within the mining environment. The hazardous location information (9) is defined by location in the mining environment likely to be affected due to slope failures. The current location (12) of the mobile processing center (3) refers to location of the mobile processing center (3) within the mining environment at a particular time instance.