CN104763463A - Underground coal mine intelligent personal safety system - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses an underground coal mine intelligent personal safety system. The underground coal mine intelligent personal safety system comprises a detecting and identifying unit of a human body life state, an underground coal mine real-time environmental parameter collecting and analyzing unit, a non-real-time voice communication unit and an underground communication unit, wherein the detecting and identifying unit of the human body life state is used for detecting the human body temperature, heart rate and breath in real time, and transmitting the collected data to a microcontroller; the underground coal mine real-time environmental parameter collecting and analyzing unit is used for collecting the environment parameter where the rescuer and person in distress in real time; the non-real-time voice communication unit is used for realizing the voice communication between a ground commander and an underground person in distress under the emergency condition; the nderground communication unit is set up on the basis of Mesh and has characteristics of dual redundancy, and can use the existed Ethernet network at the underground. The underground coal mine intelligent personal safety system can identify the health state of workers in real time and guarantee the health of the workers in the process of rescuing and working.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of underground coal mine intelligent personal security system.
Background technology
Along with country is to the raising day by day of safety in production attention degree, Safety of Coal Mine Production equipment will have the market demand more widely.According to market survey, the platform on the market for down-hole personal security's information gathering and analysis is few.At present, a large amount of Mine Personnel Positioning System existed has the defects such as function singleness, information content is little, data are inaccurate on the market.Native system is except possessing all functions of current downhole safety system, the information resources such as vital sign state, subsurface environment required under multiple abnormal condition can also be provided, and multiple reliably and flexibly data communication mode, thus decision support can be provided for safety in production.
Summary of the invention
The present invention is in order to solve the problem, propose a kind of underground coal mine intelligent personal security system, native system utilizes technology of Internet of things, intelligent sensing and mode identification technology, can not only realize carrying out detecting can also detect in real time the health of rescue personnel the ambient parameter residing for rescue personnel, thus ensure the personal safety of rescue personnel at whole rescue operations.
To achieve these goals, the present invention adopts following technical scheme:
A kind of underground coal mine intelligent personal security system, comprises the detection and indentification unit of human life state, underground coal mine real time environment parameter acquisition and analytic unit, non-real time voice communication unit and underground communica tion unit, wherein:
The data collected to the real-time detection of body temperature, heart rate and breathing, are transferred to microcontroller for realizing by the detection and indentification unit of described human life state;
Described underground coal mine real time environment parameter acquisition and analytic unit, for Real-time Collection rescue and CO, CH of distress personnel place environment
4and O
2parameter, is transferred to microcontroller;
Described non-real time voice communication unit, for realizing the voice communication of in emergency circumstances aboveground commanding and down-hole trapped personnel, carrys out transferring voice communication signal by wireless sensor network;
Described underground communica tion unit, builds the underground communication system with two redundancy feature based on Mesh, utilize the existing Ethernet in down-hole, hangs the wireless base station that possesses bridging functionality in down-hole every setpoint distance;
The data collected are sent to aboveground console by underground communica tion unit and carry out data display and backup by described microcontroller.
The detection and indentification unit of described human life state builds wireless sensor network based on bluetooth 4.0, comprises respiration information acquisition module, heart rate acquisition module and temperature pick up, realizes breathing, the real-time detection of heart rate and body temperature; Wherein the collection of body temperature and breath data shares a bluetooth module, and heart rate acquisition module is placed into the collection that chest carries out heart rate signal, and temperature pick up gathers body temperature.
In the lung ventilator that described respiration information acquisition module is placed into rescue personnel, the change of detected pressures, draws the number of times of breathing per minute and the intensity of breathing; The information gathered all passes to the control centre that microcontroller is built, and the data collected are sent to aboveground console and carry out data display and backup by two redundancy underground communication system that microcontroller application Zigbee builds.
In the lung ventilator that described respiration information acquisition module is placed into rescue personnel, the change of detected pressures, draws the number of times of breathing per minute and the intensity of breathing; The information gathered all passes to the control centre that microcontroller is built, microcontroller application Zigbee composition possesses the wireless base station of bridging functionality, the existing Ethernet in cooperation down-hole builds the two redundancy underground communication system based on Mesh, the data collected is sent to aboveground console and carries out data display and backup.
Described underground coal mine real time environment parameter acquisition and analytic unit apply microcontroller Real-time Collection to rescue and CO, CH of distress personnel place environment
4and O
2parameter, two redundancy underground communication system that the information collected is built by Zigbee to microcontroller are sent to aboveground monitoring system.
Described non-real time voice communication unit, realizes the voice communication of in emergency circumstances aboveground commanding and down-hole trapped personnel; Select to carry out transferring voice communication signal by wireless sensor network, by miniature Mike and earphone, the voice messaging to personnel gathers, and then Information Compression is packed, carries out non real-time communication by wireless sensor network and the external world.
Described non-real time voice communication unit is provided with artificial alarm button, in order in particular cases underground work personnel to command centre's manual alarm.
Described underground communica tion unit, hang every a segment distance wireless base station that possesses bridging functionality in down-hole, the vital sign information of the environmental information that the wearable personal information platform that this base station close region is responsible for receiving in each wireless base station collects and miner, then sends to Ground Information System by wire link.
Described underground communica tion unit, when the cable network of local breaks down or is destroyed, the wireless base station at destroyed place can break down to wire link by Auto-Sensing, and automatically switch to wireless transmission mode of operation, take wireless communication mode by redundant wireless network and nearest wireless base station; Not destroyed wire link place still takes the mode of wire communication.
Beneficial effect of the present invention is:
(1) the present invention can realize the Real-Time Monitoring of downhole rescuing and staff's body vital state, and data are sent to aboveground operating desk, aboveground professional can carry out real-time identification to the health status of staff, can ensure the health of staff in rescue and the course of work;
(2) can realize carrying out necessary collection to the key parameter of environment, and current risk factor is analyzed, assess and early warning;
(3) the present invention can also realize when the cable network of local breaks down or is destroyed, and human life state parameter and ambient parameter still wirelessly can be sent to aboveground operating desk by system.
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Fig. 1 is downhole intelligent security system function schematic diagram;
Fig. 2 is ambient parameter acquisition module block diagram;
Fig. 3 is non-real-time speech communicating system block diagram;
Fig. 4 is personal safety system entire block diagram.
Detailed description of the invention:
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing and embodiment, the invention will be further described.
Fig. 1 gives downhole intelligent security system function schematic diagram of the present invention.The present invention utilizes technology of Internet of things, intelligent sensing and mode identification technology to develop the wearable security system of underground coal mine intelligent personal.This system is made up of three parts: wearable personal information harvester, the underground communication system with two redundancy feature and personal information processing center.Wearable personal information harvester, is mainly used in relevant information and the CO such as personnel in the pit's vital sign parameter, motion state, the Acquire and process of the ambient parameters such as CH4, O2, and provides the communication of non-real time voice in emergency circumstances.This system adopts modularized design, and wherein respiration transducer, core signal sensor, environmental parameter sensor etc. can as apolegamy modules.The underground communication system of two redundancy feature is on the network architecture basis that down-hole Ethernet is trunk, support the open Internet of things system of different first isomeric data agreement based on heterogeneous network element Internet of things system model construction, realize in emergency circumstances intelligence that is wired, wireless mode by intelligent network state detecting and switch the reconstruction with hybrid network link.The information that personal information processing center gathers wearable personal information apparatus is analyzed, processes and is stored, and carries out warning reminding time necessary.
Fig. 2 gives ambient parameter acquisition module block diagram.At present, the distributed capture of mine gas environment and warning system relative maturity, the mode generally by installing fixed checkout gear and manual inspection in relevant position, down-hole realizes the parameter acquisition of subsurface environment.But once there is emergency, fixed checkout equipment often due to down-hole power-off, or causes thrashing owing to destroying, and manual inspection is also difficult to carry out.Now for down-hole distress personnel, necessary collection can be carried out to the key parameter of environment, and current risk factor is analyzed, assess and early warning, be necessary.The gas sensor of low cost is adopted to realize the isoparametric collection of CO, CH4, O2 of distress personnel place environment, treatment and analyses is carried out by setting up the various data of subsurface environment risk assessment model to ambient parameter, obtain the assessment of subsurface environment risk factor, when ambient parameter arrives harmful grade, system can send warning message from trend command centre and point out miner to take corresponding measure by the mode such as LED or buzzer.
Fig. 3 gives non-real time voice communication system block diagram.Non-real time voice communication system mainly realizes the voice communication of in emergency circumstances aboveground commanding and down-hole trapped personnel.Because down-hole line transmission system after mine disaster generation mostly can be in paralyzed state, it is available that network is difficult to guarantee, and therefore native system is selected to carry out transferring voice communication signal by wireless sensor network.Because the bandwidth of wireless sense network is very limited, especially in case of emergency there is bulk redundancy bandwidth and be difficult to be effectively guaranteed in network, and therefore we adopt non real-time voice communication system.It is by being embedded in miniature Mike on miners' cap wall and the earphone voice messaging important and brief to personnel gathers, and is then stored in TF card by Information Compression packing, carries out non real-time communication by wireless sensor network and the external world.In addition, by designing artificial alarm button, in order in particular cases underground work personnel to command centre's manual alarm.
Fig. 4 gives personal safety system entire block diagram.Whole intelligent safety system mainly comprises part of data acquisition and network portion.Part of data acquisition comprises the collection of ambient parameter, the collection of human body physiological parameter, the collection of voice messaging.Wherein environment information acquisition is directly read by UART, single bus interface primarily of STM32 controller; Human Physiology information, by independent processor collection, sends STM32 controller to by bluetooth; Voice messaging is directly read by STM32 controller application SPI interface, and data are directly stored in TF card.All information is sent to Zigbee network by UART interface after integrating on STM32, information enters Ethernet by Zigbee network, aboveground this locality has client to monitor data, and information can also be sent to long-distance user by the webserver, as long as user over ethernet just can check the situation of downhole rescuing personnel by corresponding Authority Verification.
By reference to the accompanying drawings the specific embodiment of the present invention is described although above-mentioned; but not limiting the scope of the invention; one of ordinary skill in the art should be understood that; on the basis of technical scheme of the present invention, those skilled in the art do not need to pay various amendment or distortion that creative work can make still within protection scope of the present invention.
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1. a underground coal mine intelligent personal security system, is characterized in that: comprise the detection and indentification unit of human life state, underground coal mine real time environment parameter acquisition and analytic unit, non-real time voice communication unit and underground communica tion unit, wherein:
The data collected to the real-time detection of body temperature, heart rate and breathing, are transferred to microcontroller for realizing by the detection and indentification unit of described human life state;
Described underground coal mine real time environment parameter acquisition and analytic unit, for Real-time Collection rescue and CO, CH of distress personnel place environment
4and O
2parameter, is transferred to microcontroller;
Described non-real time voice communication unit, for realizing the voice communication of in emergency circumstances aboveground commanding and down-hole trapped personnel, carrys out transferring voice communication signal by wireless sensor network;
Described underground communica tion unit, builds based on Mesh and has two redundancy feature, utilize the existing Ethernet in down-hole, hang the wireless base station that possesses bridging functionality in down-hole every setpoint distance;
The data collected are sent to aboveground console by underground communica tion unit and carry out data display and backup by described microcontroller.
2. a kind of underground coal mine intelligent personal security system as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: the detection and indentification unit of described human life state builds wireless sensor network, comprise respiration information acquisition module, heart rate acquisition module and temperature pick up, realize breathing, the real-time detection of heart rate and body temperature; Wherein the collection of body temperature and breath data shares a bluetooth module, and heart rate acquisition module is placed into the collection that chest carries out heart rate signal, and temperature pick up gathers body temperature.
3. a kind of underground coal mine intelligent personal security system as claimed in claim 2, is characterized in that: the change of detected pressures in the lung ventilator that described respiration information acquisition module is placed into rescue personnel, draws the number of times of breathing per minute and the intensity of breathing; The information gathered all passes to the control centre that microcontroller is built, and the data collected are sent to aboveground console and carry out data display and backup by two redundancy underground communication system that microcontroller application Zigbee builds;
Microcontroller application Zigbee composition possesses the wireless base station of bridging functionality, builds the two redundancy underground communication system based on Mesh, the data collected are sent to aboveground console and carry out data display and backup with the existing Ethernet in down-hole.
4. a kind of underground coal mine intelligent personal security system as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described underground coal mine real time environment parameter acquisition and analytic unit apply microcontroller Real-time Collection to rescue and CO, CH4 and O2 parameter of distress personnel place environment, and two redundancy underground communication system that the information collected is built by Zigbee to microcontroller are sent to aboveground monitoring system.
5. a kind of underground coal mine intelligent personal security system as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that: described non-real time voice communication unit, realizes the voice communication of in emergency circumstances aboveground commanding and down-hole trapped personnel; Select to carry out transferring voice communication signal by wireless sensor network, by miniature Mike and earphone, the voice messaging to personnel gathers, and then Information Compression is packed, carries out non real-time communication by wireless sensor network and the external world.
6. a kind of underground coal mine intelligent personal security system as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that: described non-real time voice communication unit is provided with artificial alarm button, in order in particular cases underground work personnel to command centre's manual alarm.
7. a kind of underground coal mine intelligent personal security system as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described underground communica tion unit, hang every a segment distance wireless base station that possesses bridging functionality in down-hole, the vital sign information of the environmental information that the wearable personal information platform that this base station close region is responsible for receiving in each wireless base station collects and miner, then sends to Ground Information System by wire link.
8. a kind of underground coal mine intelligent personal security system as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described underground communica tion unit, when the cable network of local breaks down or is destroyed, the wireless base station at destroyed place can break down to wire link by Auto-Sensing, and automatically switch to wireless transmission mode of operation, take wireless communication mode by redundant wireless network and nearest wireless base station; Not destroyed wire link place still takes the mode of wire communication.
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