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13.1 About Minetec technology
Minetec hardware is broadly categorised as:
• Vehicle hardware installed on each vehicle in the fleet.
• Personnel hardware including the Personal Node and Charging Dock.
• Infrastructure including devices and ethernet cable for Wi-Fi communications and data backhaul.
See Table 17 System hardware below and Table 18 Communications technology below for a summary
of the hardware and technology used in each system. Note that the systems use common hardware
so that multiple systems can be deployed with minimal additional hardware required.
For Trax and SafeDetect, all Minetec ranging devices use the CSIRO
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Wireless Ad-hoc System for
Positioning (WASP) technology including Time of Arrival (ToA) techniques for accurate ranging.
Table 17 System hardware
System
Personal
Node
In vehicle
PC
Mobile
Node
PDPU8F
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Access
Point
Bridge
Ethernet cable &
Backhaul Cabinet
Category
Personnel
Vehicle
Infrastructure
Trax
10
Y
Y
Y
N
Y
Optional
Y
SafeDetect
11
Y
Y
Y
HV
N
N
N
SMARTS
12
N
Y
N
Y
N
Y
Y= Yes, required by the system; N = No, not required; HV = used in Heavy Vehicles with multiple Mobile Nodes.
Mobile and Personal Nodes operate in the following wireless bands:
• 5.8 GHz for WASP.
• 2.4 GHz wireless band creating wireless mesh networks.
Table 18 Communications technology
Communications technology
In-Vehicle
PC
Personal
Node
13
Mobile
Node
6
Wi-Fi WASP
Access Point
Wi-Fi WASP
Bridge
5.8 GHz WASP for ranging.
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
2.4 GHz mesh networking between
nodes and Vehicle PC
Y
Y
Y
N
N
2.4 GHz Wi-Fi client-server networking.
Y
N
N
Y
Y
Ethernet LAN for comms & backhaul
N
N
N
Y
Future
Y= Yes, device uses this technology; N = No, device does not use this technology.