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Prototyping a Localization Process for Underground Mining Environments Using a WLAN System
2009-04-22 08:45
Prototyping a Localization Process for Underground Mining Environments Using a WLAN System Partners: Siamtec Funding source: NSERC/I2I Principal investigator: Sofiène Affes (professor, INRS-EMT) Team members: Charles Despins (adjunct professor, INRS-EMT, president, PROMPT-Québec), Chahé Nerguizian (professor, École Polytechnique).
Summary: For more than two years, an important R&D project has been taking place in Val d'Or (in Abitibi in the north-west of Québec) in order to develop wireless multimedia access technologies for underground mines. This project, supported by a grant from the CRD program of NSERC (1,026,200 $ over three years granted in June 2002), is gathering researchers from five universities, the Bell Nordiq Inc. group, the Bell University Labs (BUL), a group of mining companies from northern Québec and specialists from Natural Resources Canada. This project has led to the development of new highly accurate radio-localization techniques for security applications, management, and control of mining operations and to the submission of patents due to the enormous commercial potential of this new technology and its socio-economic benefits to the north-western region of Québec at both national and international levels. Indeed, the proposed radio-localization process seems to be very advantageous because of its high accuracy, robustness in the absence of direct line of sight, its utilization of a single access point (cost-effective in terms of number of WLAN access points), and commercial potential in confined environments in general. The objective of this project is to develop a new operating prototype of this new localization process. Indeed, we aim at implementing over an IEEE 802.11 platform of WLAN wireless networks, a hardware & software model which identifies the impulse response of the channel with a high temporal resolution in order to apply this procedure to radio localization using neural networks and wideband channel signatures. We intend to recruit two highly skilled design engineers and an expert-consultant to implement this prototype within one year. This task is required in order to validate this concept currently under patent protection process and in order to trigger the subsequent step of commercialization of this technological innovation |
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