Smart sensing:the next generation

Joseph Ducarme, Jacob Carr and Miguel Reyes from the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health discuss how proximity detection technology for underground mining has progressed and what new developments have been made

24 July 2013
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In the last 30 years, more than three dozen workers in the US have died after being struck or pinned by remote-controlled continuous mining machines (CMMs).

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