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Uni research group unveils life-saving tech

Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and the University of Bremen, Germany, are introducing the industry to a wireless sensor network developed to provide vital information, including location, about missing miners underground

Donna Schmidt
Uni research group unveils life-saving tech

The device, the size a matchbook with a short aerial antenna, was the result of work between the Wits Mining Institute – part of the South African university’s School of Electrical and Information Engineering...

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