Underground Mine Communications Infrastructure Guideline

1 Introduction
2 Business Case
3 General Considerations
4 Design
4.1 Communication Service Elements
4.1.1 Physical Media
4.1.2 Power
4.1.3 Environmental Considerations
4.2 Voice and Wireless Access Network Selection
4.2.1 Considerations in Choosing a Pattern
4.2.1.1 Trunked Radio
4.2.1.2 Cellular
4.2.1.3 Wi-Fi and Cellular Selection Consideration
4.2.1.4 Choosing the Right Pattern Based on Specific Operation
4.2.2 Other Patterns
4.2.3 Client Devise Considerations
4.2.4 Risk Management Consideration
4.3 Power Design
4.3.1 Uninteruptable Power Supply (UPS)
4.3.2 UPS Location and Coverage
4.4 Wired Network Design
4.4.1 Logical Architecture
4.4.2 Physical Architecture
4.5 Wireless Spectrum Management
4.6 Wi-Fi Design
4.6.1 Physical
4.6.2 Logical
4.7 Cellular Design
4.7.1 Logical
4.7.2 Cellular Core System to Corporate Network Integration
4.7.3 Physical
4.8 Wireless Sensor Network Design
4.9 Location Systm Design
4.10 Coal Mines
4.11 Quality Assurance
4.11.1 Hand-Off
4.11.2 IT Acceptance Criteria
4.11.3 Mine Maintenance Acceptance Criteria
4.11.4 Application Ownership Acceptance Criteria
5 Installation and Commission
5.1 Requirements for Successful Installation and Commission
5.1.1 Design Requirements
5.1.2 Resource Requirements
5.1.3 Process Requirements
5.2 Methodology for Installation
5.2.1 Wi-Fi
5.2.2 Cellular
5.2.3 Leaky Feeder
5.2.4 Cable Location and Installation
5.2.5 Elevated Work Platform (EWP) Usage
5.2.6 Communication System Best Practices
5.2.7 Process for Working with Mining Cycle
5.3 Methodologies for Commissioning
5.3.1 Testing, Validation, and Verification for Wired Networks
5.3.2 – Testing, Validation, and Verification for Wireless Networks 
5.3.3 – Verify Against Performance Requirements (for Design) 
5.3.4 – Tools and Methods of Testing Coverage/Bandwidth 
5.3.5 – Sign-off 
6 – Operation and Maintenance  
6.1 Overall Approach to Technology Delivery and Maintenance
6.2 Establish Performance Targets  
6.3 Monitor Against Targets  
6.3.1 Alerting  
6.3.2 Reporting 
6.4 Maintenance  
6.4.1 SLAs and Target to Repair  
6.4.1.1 Internal Operating Level Agreement (OLA)
6.4.2 Critical Spares/Inventory
6.4.3 Personnel and Organizational Structure
6.4.4 Maintenance Planning and Work Execution   
6.5 Change Management  
6.5.1 Cybersecurity  
6.6 Continuous Improvement 
7 Disposing and Refreshing  
7.1 Disposing and Refreshing  
7.1.1 Data for Disposal and Refreshing
7.1.2 Safe, Secure, and Ethical Disposal  
8 Application Use Case Examples 
Appendix 1 – Mining Phase Description 
Appendix 2 – Mining Methods  
Appendix 3 – Spectrum and Interference Management  
Appendix 4 – Client Device Consideration 
Appendix 5 – Logical Cellular Design Consideration 
Appendix 6 – Cellular Core System to Corporate Network Integration Consideration   
Appendix 7 – Location System Design 

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