L-3 Communications Announces Successful In-Mine Testing of its
Wireless Mesh Mine Communications System
System Exceeds All Range Performance Goals
Global Security and Engineering Solutions, a division of L-3 Communications, and its partners today announced the results of their recent successful tests for the L-3 Wireless Mesh Mine Communications system. The L-3 Team conducted the December 2007 system tests at the International Coal Group, Inc. (ICG) Sentinel Mine in Philippi, WV as part of its R&D contract for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
The testing, which focused on the system’s wireless mesh nodes, confirmed the L-3 Team’s frequency selection for the program. The L-3 frequency choice ensures full wireless coverage down mine crosscuts, in belt entries and other restricted areas, as well as extended wireless coverage throughout the main entries. During the two-day, in-mine testing period, the system exceeded all test goals, models, and benchmarks initially established for the program by NIOSH.
“By demonstrating the effective propagation of our wireless signals throughout the Sentinel Mine, these tests reveal that our Wireless Mesh Mine Communications system will be a viable and cost effective technological solution to assist the mining industry in their safety efforts,” said Jerry Bates, President of Global Security and Engineering Solutions. “L-3 and its partners look forward to our upcoming 2008 tests which will further demonstrate the robust operational capabilities of the L-3 Wireless Mesh Mine Communications system.”
The L-3 Team will demonstrate key elements of its MINER Act-compliant, Wireless Mesh Mine Communications system, including redundant communication and situational awareness components, in the ICG Sentinel Mine (April 2008). These tests will then be followed by a full-scale demonstration of the L-3 Wireless Mesh Mine Communications system in the same mine in August 2008.
L-3 will begin meeting with mine industry customers in spring 2008, with advanced order bookings commencing at the same time. Full-scale deployment of the L-3 Wireless Mesh Mine Communication system to the U.S. underground coal mining will begin in spring 2009.
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