Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for Distributed Iot-Based Underground Miner Tracking And Safety System With Multi-Node Verified Hazard Alerting

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641110814 A) filed by Thota Durga Prasad; Satti Sudha Mohan Reddy; Kokku Aruna Kumari; B T P Madhav; and Sagi Rama Krishnam Raju Engineering College on September 15, 2026, for Distributed Iot-Based Underground Miner Tracking And Safety System With Multi-Node Verified Hazard Alerting.

Inventors include Thota Durga Prasad; Satti Sudha Mohan Reddy; Kokku Aruna Kumari; and B T P Madhav.

The application for the patent was published on September 25, 2026, under issue no. 39/2026.

Abstract: The invention provides a distributed IoT-based underground miner tracking and safety network comprising a plurality of minimal wearable Helmet Units (300), each with a Battery (301), Light (302), Microcontroller (303), and UWB Transmitter (304) broadcasting a unique miner ID; a plurality of fixed IoT Safety Boxes (100) deployed at regular tunnel intervals, each with a Gas Module (101), Temperature sensor (102), Earthquake or vibration sensor (103), UWB Receiver (104), Microcontroller (105), Battery (106), NRF Transmitter (107), and Buzzer (108); a Gateway (405); and a Control Receiver Unit (200) with Power Supply (201), NRF Receiver (202), Microcontroller (203), Control Room (204), Cloud Server (205), and Web Dashboard or Mobile Application (206). The system performs real-time miner identification, multi-node RF-based location estimation using triangulation or multilateration, multi-parameter environmental hazard monitoring, false-alarm- resistant collapse or earthquake detection through multi-node data correlation, and low-power long-range LoRa relay communication of safety-critical data from underground zones to a surface control room with automatic multi-channel alerting. The invention substantially reduces wearable cost, weight, and power draw, improves reliability in harsh underground conditions, reduces false-alarm rates for seismic events, and enables real-time per-miner location awareness without GPS.

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