While most people do not understand the technology that goes into underground mining, some of it is incredible. Modern mining is nothing like mining used to be, and technology is helping these changes occur. One example of incredible technology used to make underground mining better is wireless geotechnical monitoring.
Wireless geotechnical monitoring is mainly used to monitor the conditions of the underground mine and monitor how the geological environment is doing so issues with the rock formations can be kept track of. This information can mitigate damage because it allows you to know how the mines are doing in real time. This improves safety by minimizing the risk of being in the mine. Wireless geotechnical monitoring systems allow you to win the information game and disaster before they happen.
Now that we know what they are used for, we should talk about what wireless geotechnical monitoring systems are. They are systems of monitoring systems placed across the mines that wirelessly send information over nodes into a larger server. This means that wherever you put mesh monitoring systems into the cave you can have information related to a central server, so long as it can be linked back. The information at the central server can be viewed and interpreted to help understand what is happening to the geology within the cave.
These systems are very advanced, and incredibly cool. Not only do we have the systems to track the conditions of a mine using technology, but it can be used to mitigate disaster and dangerous situations.
