What is a smart mine? What problem can be solved?

In September 2021, jointly built by China Radio and Television, China Mobile and China Coal Shaanxi Yulin Energy and Chemical Industry, China Coal Science and Technology Intelligent Mining Co., LTD., China Coal Information Technology, ZTE, Shaanxi Daze Coal Mine project for the first time in China to achieve 5G 700MHz band coal field application to help achieve full coverage of 5G signals on the mine surface and underground. It lays the foundation for multi-scenario applications such as 4K video surveillance, 5GVoNR video call, underground automatic driving, and remote control of working face in 5G intelligent mine scenarios. The combination of 5G private network technology and multi-basic capabilities such as big data, AI image recognition and large video provided by ZTE played a particularly key role in this project. As the world's leading integrated communication solution provider and China's largest listed communication equipment company, ZTE is now not only a communications equipment manufacturer, but also a complete solution and service provider of digital transformation solutions. Zte has a combination of 5G private network technology and big data, AI image recognition, large video and other advantages, and there are not many enterprises in the world that have these advantages at the same time, and an excellent smart mining platform cannot be separated from the empowerment of these core technologies.

Since 2020, after two years of industry exploration of 5G enabled mining, ZTE believes that the value of the combination of ICT and mining applications has been verified with certainty, and established the mining Business Department at the end of December 2021 to specialize in the mining industry segment. The Mining Business Department, headed by Junshi Xie, executive vice president and Chief Operating Officer of ZTE, gathers the whole chain of personnel including industry experts, product research and development, marketing, engineering delivery, commercial procurement, etc., taking mining industry customers as the boundary, effectively connects the company's operating factors, breaks the original organizational framework, and quickly gathers resources. Open the marketing forward, pull back the program/product, is committed to creating a minimalist, high-speed and safe mining network, and build a smart mine with the interconnection of everything.

Up to now, ZTE has cooperated with more than 20 private networks and business partners. For example, during the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2022 conference recently, ZTE and Inner Mongolia Dazhong Mining Co., LTD. (referred to as "Dazhong Mining") signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement at the conference. And has implemented more than 70 projects in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Anhui, Xinjiang, etc., and completed the boring machine remote control, intelligent fully mechanized mining, intelligent inspection, unmanned mining card, video splicing and other business applications, including mine and open pit mine remote control, intelligent fully mechanized mining, intelligent inspection, unmanned mining card, video splicing and other business applications. While carrying out cooperation in product research and development, ecological collaboration, and project solutions, 5G will be used to enable the needs of safe production, and gradually realize intelligent upgrades such as fewer and unmanned production, automatic transportation, automatic loading and unloading, automatic driving, and robot inspection. Jointly promote the application and practice of Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, 5G edge computing and other innovative technologies in the mining industry. This also basically includes the ten intelligent systems needed for smart mines: 5G+ intelligent coal mining system, 5G+ intelligent driving system, intelligent dispatching centralized control system, intelligent equipment early warning and remote consultation system, Internet of Things + intelligent storage system, intelligent traffic safety control system of auxiliary inclined shaft, 5G+ intelligent conveyor belt transportation system, unattended integrated coal sales control system, intelligent ventilation system, remote intelligent office system.

As a key part of the intelligent construction of Daze Coal Mine, the 5G 700MHz&2.6GHz Fusion communication system project of Daze Coal Mine mentioned above builds a three-level elastic computing power network system based on the new cloud network architecture to help the coal mine realize the network management and control of "5G, WiFi, IoT and industrial Ethernet ring network" in the well/underground. At the same time, relying on key technologies such as 5G super uplink, network slicer technology, and MOCN, the 5G customized network private network mode lays the foundation for multi-scenario applications such as 4K video surveillance, 5GVoNR video call, underground automatic driving, and remote control of the working face in 5G smart mine scenarios, and continues to help the digital transformation and upgrading of all elements of Daishue coal mine production. Strive to build a model of science and technology, innovation, integration, and green development, making ZTE a leader in the construction of 5G+ smart mines in the national coal industry.