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Abstract

Now-a-days the accidents in the coal mine industries have increased. Even if any explosion occurs it can’t be easily known to the labourers and it may cause accidents. So in order to avoid this, a robot has been designed and this robot is allowed to monitor the ambient situations inside the coal mine industry. Some of the environmental parameters such as methane leakage, temperature, oxygen are sensed by using the high end sensors and the sensed data are transmitted to the mobile phone through Wi-Fi. A static ip address is configured in the microprocessor for the Wi-Fi. The robot has a camera that transmits live video signal to mobile phone for monitoring the status of the coal mine and to control the robot movement. If the temperature exceeds a threshold, the cooling fan is automatically set to ON and if any gas leakage is detected the workers are given alert through a buzzer. Oxygen is supplied is there is suffocation for the labourers. The robot is designed using a Raspberry Pi 2 board. The Wi-Fi dongle and sensors are attached to the robot and this robot is tethered with the mobile phone and can be controlled from a web browser using navigation buttons. By this the human intervention can be avoided inside the industry and the accidents can be prevented.