Emimsar was a research project whose main objective was to facilitate the work and to improve the safety of underground miners by providing them with enhanced means to access essential computer-stored information when and where they need it most. The technology selected to ease this interaction...

Energy consumption is a major cost component in all mining operations. Electrical systems are quite often over-designed, and as such have high energy consumption while in an idling state and quite often having peak power values several times higher than the average power; due to the intermittent...