Smart Mining Helmet with Body Vitals and Location Tracking
Sangeeta Kurundkar, Kshitij Mukunda Bhure, Aryan Dayan Kamath, Anushka Jayant Tyagi, Anvi Barde, Arya Abhir Pimpalgaonkar · 2023
Across the world, the mining industry is one of the most prominent industries and directly affects the host country's GDP. Despite this, sufficient steps are not taken to protect the workers in most cases. Coming from low-income families, they do not know their rights, and companies exploit the same. A helmet is an essential element of a miner's uniform as it protects the wearer's head in a dangerous environment as mines are not always secure and workers can get injured. Using the internet of things, we can integrate various sensors with the helmet to keep a tab on the miner's vitals and external environmental conditions. Additionally, we have also proposed a solution to keep track of the wearer's location throughout the mine to ensure immediate assistance if any disaster occurs.