Rajant and ESG Unveil Advanced Seismic Monitoring for Mines

Rajant Corporation and ESG Solutions report successful underground mine testing at NORCAT's health and safety center in Sudbury, Canada. They implemented Precision Time Protocol (PTP) to enhance data transmission for clients in communications, productivity, and security. According to the companies, Rajant's Kinetic Mesh effectively supports PTP, providing the microsecond precision required for advanced automation systems in the mining industry.

“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.” said Chris Hawryluck, ESG’s Director of Engineering.

Rajant Sales Director for Canada Darrell Gillis added, “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. The practical application for this is to eliminate fiber runs from sensors at remote areas of the underground levels. The data packets can now be transmitted wirelessly from the sensor to the closest fiber switch at the substation or the shaft station.”.

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