How can we ensure safety, localization, and traceability in critical underground areas where external signals can’t reach? This scenario is more common than one might think. Examples include ensuring the safety of operators (or visitors) and equipment in tunnels, underground sites, construction sites, mines, and subways.
In essence, these are all potentially extremely “critical” locations where precise real-time tracking of machinery, operators (or even visitors) can significantly impact the safety of the entire workflow.
In such cases, having a real-time localization system for machinery and operators (allowing the rapid identification of equipment and the status of tunnel occupancy, also in graphical/synoptic mode by control rooms) becomes an integral part of the prevention, monitoring, and assistance system, especially in case of adverse events but not only.
During construction phases, the solution allows defining a “safe area” perimeter for each operator which, if breached, triggers an immediate alarm. Additionally, the device is equipped with a dedicated call button that sends an immediate alert to the control room, indicating the position of the operator in distress.
Emergency and Safety Drill Management
The proposed solution includes an emergency team management function for the control room, enabling effective response to alarm situations and directing teams to the point of necessity. The solution allows for:
- Creating teams
- Conducting roll calls for each operator (checklist)
- Identifying and following the intervention point of each team with real-time communication of intervention coordinates (even if moving)
- Guiding teams along optimized routes to reach the intervention point
- Indicating safety procedures (with multiple-choice from text templates)
- Real-time route adjustments to avoid risks
- Locating emergency devices to facilitate the resolution of critical events
- Identifying the last known position of the team and providing an overview of all team locations
- Communicating with teams via smartphone push messages
- Analyzing average intervention times (including for drills)
Enhancing Safety and Efficiency with TapMyLife
TapMyLife’s underground localization ensures significantly improved safety for personnel and moving equipment. The system accounts for specific characteristics of individual equipment, enabling targeted searches for monitoring purposes. For each piece of equipment, historical data allows for tracking its movements over time, highlighting potential critical usage issues.
Supporting this type of analysis is a Business Intelligence system provided by TapMyLife, which simplifies and enhances data analysis usability.
As mentioned at the beginning, thanks to TapMyLife’s technology, localization and safety in underground environments are no longer a problem.
