Rajant and Crossover Demonstrate One Network For Underground Mining Mobile High-Speed Data, Voice, and Video

Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and Crossover Distribution, a leading wireless solutions provider skilled in design and engineering expertise to support North America, together bring high-speed data, voice, and video using one network to underground mining at the working face. The latest video case study  reflects the proof of concept at the NORCAT Underground Centre in Sudbury, Ontario (Canada).

The success will also be displayed at this month’s MINExpo International in the Las Vegas Convention Center’s West Hall in Booth #10741 from September 24th to 26th.

Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh is underground mining’s one network for multiple applications: 

• Data, Voice, and Video 
• High-speed Internet at the Face 
• Tele-operations from Surface 
• PTP Micro-second Time Stamping 
• Real-Time Seismic and Gas Monitoring 
• Emergency Detection and Alerts  
• Plus, Telemetry, Tracking, Gas Monitoring and More

“Mines are looking for a solution to put surface applications underground,” shares Darrell Gillis, Rajant Sales Director – Canada. “Without a high-speed network, you can’t do it. Simple Wi-Fi doesn’t work because it’s blocked by equipment or a single point of failure. Further, a big part of the Rajant solution for underground is having the BreadCrumb wireless nodes on the mobile equipment and extending or strengthening the network. If you can get that data off that machine in real-time would be a huge cost savings. You don’t need all the separate networks. This is one network for all.”

Crossover Executive Vice President Darin Gibbons says,

“A person walking around with a VHF radio can talk from the surface, or anywhere underground, throughout the network to a smartphone. What the Rajant network does, by extending that coverage into that part of the mine, is allow the worker to always be in contact and improve efficiencies because he’s not walking back periodically to talk back to the mine supervisor or other operations people. You get to use all these smartphone features underground where the workers are working.”