The production, productivity and safety of underground coal mines are greatly affected by
the environmental conditions of the mines. Hence, continuous monitoring of the complex …

With continuous advancements in sensor technology, wireless communications, modern
network architectures and electronics; it is now feasible to fulfill the requirements of …

The structural responses of segmental lining to the construction loads during shield
tunneling are not well understood yet. To this end, a hybrid sensing method is proposed to …

Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSN) have promising applications in the field of
underground structural health monitoring. Signal path loss prediction is a great challenge in …

Estimating communication latency is a challenging task in the applications of industrial
Internet of things (IIoT). Mobile convergecast, as a many-to-one communication pattern, has …

Data dissemination toward static sinks causes the nearby nodes to deplete their energy
quicker than the other nodes in the field (ie, this is referred to as the hotspot problem) …

This paper presents a power management technique for improving the efficiency of
harvesting energy from air-flows in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) applications. The …

Datacollection and dissemination in wireless sensor networks (WSN) for Internet of Things
(IoT) require stable multi-hop networking path from source to sink. However, due to the …

Longwall mining is extensively practiced worldwide for the safe extraction of coal from
underground coal mines. In this paper, we analyzed several sensor node deployment …

The growing number of fatalities among miners caused by toxic gases puts pressure on the
mining industry; innovative approaches are required to improve underground miners' health …