Four-Faith 5G+ Autonomous Mining Truck Transportation Solution: Strengthening the Safety Foundation for Mining Operations

The mining industry is a crucial lifeline for China's economic development and social progress. While meeting the coal supply guarantee tasks, open-pit mining has always faced challenges in terms of safety, efficiency, and driver shortages. Enhancing production safety, improving operational efficiency, and achieving unmanned or less-manned mining operations have become core demands for coal enterprises in the digital age.

As the most advantageous scenario for autonomous driving, the mining area has seen the rapid advancement of intelligent mining construction, moving the mining autonomous driving industry from technology R&D and pilot verification to commercial production and implementation.

The mining industry is a crucial lifeline for China's economic development and social progress. While meeting the coal supply guarantee tasks, open-pit mining has always faced challenges in terms of safety, efficiency, and driver shortages. Enhancing production safety, improving operational efficiency, and achieving unmanned or less-manned mining operations have become core demands for coal enterprises in the digital age.

As the most advantageous scenario for autonomous driving, the mining area has seen the rapid advancement of intelligent mining construction, moving the mining autonomous driving industry from technology R&D and pilot verification to commercial production and implementation.

Demand Analysis

Data Barriers, Information Difficult to Communicate: 

The operation back-end systems are mostly built independently, lacking a unified integration window. Data and information in different areas are relatively independent, making it difficult to achieve rapid association and integration.

Poor Working Environment, Difficult for Personnel to Persist: 

Traditional transportation methods operate in poor environments. Drivers work in harsh conditions such as extreme cold, heat, bumps, and dust, making it hard to persist. Issues like aging drivers and difficulties in recruitment and retention are prominent.

Lack of Early Warning Monitoring, Difficult to Ensure Safety:

Inability to quickly realize danger warnings means that in the event of a hazard, staff may easily miss the best opportunity for response, compromising safety.

Traditional Management Methods, Difficult Data Analysis:

On-site emergencies are mostly judged by experience without reasonable scientific basis, lacking the ability for reliable data sharing and intelligent analysis.

Solution Introduction 

To address prominent issues in open-pit mining, such as high dependence on manpower, limited mining efficiency, harsh environments, high risks in underground mining, and significant challenges to safe production, Four-Faith has introduced the 5G+ Autonomous Mining Truck Transportation Solution. This solution meets the unmanned driving needs of mining areas, coordinates 5G applications, and ensures efficient operation and maintenance management.

By leveraging the superior performance of 5G networks, this solution enables tight collaboration and information exchange between vehicles and platform endpoints. Remote drivers (human or machine) can directly perform precise docking, automatic loading and unloading, parking avoidance, and remote-control tasks for unmanned mining trucks, thus increasing production while saving labor costs and fuel consumption.

System Functions

High-Definition Cameras, Control Terminal, and High-Precision RTK Equipment:

Unmanned mining trucks are equipped with high-definition cameras, a driving control terminal, and high-precision RTK positioning equipment. The onboard high-definition cameras transmit real-time vehicle work scenes back to the remote-control center via the 5G network, allowing operators to monitor the work site through high-resolution video.

High-Precision Positioning Terminal:

The positioning information from the high-precision terminal on the truck is sent to a positioning reference station via the 5G network to obtain accurate location data. This data is used in map modeling (SLAM) technology to achieve functions such as positioning, navigation, route planning, and precise path tracking within the mining area.

Driving Control Terminal:

The driving control terminal transmits vehicle data (such as operator commands, vehicle status, and sensor data) to the remote control platform via the 5G network. Operators at the control center can monitor various status data of the mining trucks in real-time.

Control System:

The control system features technologies for autonomous perception, judgment, execution, and decision-making. Through AI algorithms, the unmanned mining trucks can perform intelligent functions such as obstacle detection and autonomous avoidance, enabling intelligent control scenarios for unmanned mining trucks.

Solution Advantages

Real-Time Warning, Enhanced Safety:

Using 5G network and sensor technology, operators can remotely control mining trucks, reducing safety risks and ensuring the safety of personnel and vehicles. Additionally, real-time monitoring of mining truck operations helps identify and warn of safety hazards, further enhancing safety.

Cost Savings, Increased Production Efficiency:

The 5G+ remote control driving of mining trucks allows for 24/7 continuous operation, improving transportation efficiency and production capacity while reducing the need for personnel in hazardous work, thereby saving labor costs.

Real-Time Monitoring, Data Support:

The low latency and high reliability of the 5G network meet the real-time requirements of remote-controlled mining truck operations. The large bandwidth and high reliability of the 5G network support the real-time transmission and processing of high-definition video, providing more accurate monitoring and decision support.

Intelligent Management, Accelerated Smart Mining Construction:

Advanced communication technology promotes the intelligent upgrade of mining equipment, increasing the automation and informatization of the production process and accelerating the intelligent transformation of mining.

Product Recommendation:

Four-Faith 5G Industrial Router

Real-Time Data Transmission, Easy Operation Monitoring:

The Four-Faith 5G industrial router is an IoT terminal designed for harsh and complex factory environments. It connects directly to industrial machinery for data collection and enables managers to easily monitor production operations across different times and locations through real-time data transmission.

Efficient Data Interaction, Breaking Information Silos:

The Four-Faith 5G industrial router leverages features such as ultra-high speed, large connectivity, low latency, and secure transmission to facilitate more efficient data interaction between machinery and platforms.

Industrial Design, Stable 24/7 Operation:

The 5G industrial router is built with high-performance industrial-grade 32-bit communication processors and industrial-grade wireless modules to ensure long-term stable operation even in harsh environments. It features a robust metal case, high protection level, wide temperature and voltage ranges, and EMC level 4 protection, capable of withstanding extreme temperatures, unstable voltage, high electromagnetic radiation, rain, and dust, ensuring continuous communication between remote devices and the control center.