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TechnoNews - Australia - Computer tells miners, and haul truck operators, they're dozing off
Australia -ABC Science Online, by Judy Skatssoon -17 May 2006: -- Australian researchers are developing a computerised system that monitors the performance of miners and tells management if workers are getting tired... The system, designed to improve safety for haul truck operators, will be discussed at the national conference of the Cooperative Research Centres Association this week... University of Sydney PhD student Stewart Worrell, says the technology is all about fatigue management... He says fatigue statistics are under-reported, but US figures for 2001-2003 show there are eight fatigue-related fatalities in mines each year... He says the system uses sensors fitted to the trucks and analyses data collected during haul operations, like the ability of the driver to keep to a straight line and driver speed... "We have sensors attached to trucks which can monitor the truck's position on the road and detect when other trucks and vehicles are nearby," he says. "The software analyses how a driver's performance changes over the duration of the shift and from there we can determine when there are threats and alert the driver. We can detect if the truck's driving off the road or if there's a potential collision. We might say 'this guy's driven over the centre of the road a couple of times so it's time to have a break'"... Data stored on each truck is also automatically downloaded to a central database when the haul truck returns to the drop-off area...
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