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Responding to the expansion of the mining industry and growing customer demand for industry leading communications and safety solutions, Mine Radio Systems has expanded its senior management team with the addition of Steven Zakaib, who joins the company as Executive Vice President, Operations, effective Jan 23, 2012.  

“We were looking for someone with domestic and international experience and a proven track record with world-class businesses, and that is exactly what we get with Mr. Zakaib,” said MRS President Ken Morrell.  “His mandate is to expand our market reach and build on our existing strengths by delivering Best in Breed solutions to our valued clients around the world and I have every confidence that he will fulfill that mandate.”

Mine Radio Systems (MRS); Global designer and manufacturer of communication systems to increase mine and tunnel owners and operators safety, productivity and profitability,is proud to announce the appointment of Wisam Farjow to Vice President Engineering. Based out of the MRS Head office in Ontario, Canada; Wisam will oversee all MRS engineering activities throughout the world.  “This recognition is due in part to Wisam’s past efforts and contributions to the growth of MRS internationally over the last 8 years”said Ken Morrell President, Mine Radio Systems.

Mining 2012- Vietnam

Hanoi, Vietnam

March 7-9, 2012

International Centerfor Exhibition (ICE)

Please visit MRS in the Australian Pavilion at this year’s event.

Please contact Mine Radio Systemsto schedule a meeting.

Mine Radio Systems (MRS), global designer and manufacturer of communication systems to increase mine and tunnel owners and operators safety, productivity and profitability has recently completed installation of 2 surface communication systems and two underground monitoring systems at the Mafube Colliery Middelburg Mpumalanga, South Africa. 

Mine Radio Systems (MRS), global designer and manufacturer of communication systems to increase mine and tunnel owners and operators safety, productivity and profitability has recently completed phase one of its most historic installation in recent years at the Boleo deposit on the east cost of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.  “This has been and will be a significant project for MRS.  It’s allowing us to demonstrate our global leadership in advanced communication and safety systems for the mining and tunnelling industries” says Ken Morrell, President, Mine Radio Systems.

Mine Radio Systems (MRS), global designer and manufacturer of communication systems to increase mine and tunnel owners and operator’s safety, productivity and profitability,has successfully reached an agreement to provide full-time communication services and support to MMG Rosebery mine site in Tasmania, Australia.  This project is another first for MRS Australia as they continue to expand their market share and global reach.

Mine Radio Systems (MRS) Global designer and manufacturer of communication systems to increase mine and tunnel owners and operator’s safety, productivity and profitability,is proud to announce the appointment of John Stoneman as its Corporate Product Development Manager. Based out of the MRS Head office in Ontario, Canada; John will be responsible for all product development activities in both the Mining and Tunnelling Industries. Educated as an Engineer, John brings over 20 years’ experience in the design, development and service of electronic components. He’s held both senior product management and operation roles in several large Automotive and Electronic component companies including Omron Dualtect Automotive Electronics a major component supplier to Ford and GM, Carter Group Canada and Visteon Canada Inc (Formerly Ford Electronics Manufacturing).

Mine Radio Systems (MRS) Global designer and manufacturer of communication systems to increase mine and tunnel owners and operator’s safety, productivity and profitabilityis proud to announce the nomination of Phill Presser, Technical Sales Manager MRS Australia to the Tasmanian Minerals Council.  The Tasmanian Minerals Council is the representative organization for the exploration, mining and mineral processing industry in Tasmania.  The Minerals Council is part of the exploration, mining and mineral processing industries and represents the views of the industry on a range of issues to Government - State and Federal, NGOs and the public, including the school system.

Have you read Wisam Farjow latest White Paper?

With the rapid advances in wireless communication and portable devices technologies, the need for smart applications that could offer personalized services to the mobile users has attracted a lot of research interest in the past few years. This interest has led to the development of a range of services called “Location Based Services”. Location based services are aimed at making use of geospatial location information as well as user context in order to provide the end-user with useful personalised information. Several usage trends have been observed in location based services among which emergency services, information services and tracking services where the most general [1].

The accurate localization of objects and people in indoor environments has long been considered an important building block for ubiquitous computing applications [2], [3].

Most research of indoor localization systems has been based on the use of short-range signals, such as Wi-Fi [4], [5] Bluetooth [6], ultrasound [7], infrared [8], or RFID [9].

This works presents an accurate ZigBee-based indoor localization system in underground mine. Our system can be deployed on underground mines gallery equipped with a wireless sensor network. The system uses the fingerprinting technique to associate position dependent information such as the strength of the received signal with a location.

The key idea that makes accurate ZigBee-based indoor localization possible is the use of two signal-strength fingerprints. We present an efficient algorithm based on support vector machines (SVM) technique for classification.

The proposed algorithm is practical and scalable. The choice of this point is motivated by the high performance of SVM. We evaluate our ZigBee-based indoor localization system in real underground mines. Experimental results show that the system achieves a good accuracy.

The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section II contains the related work. Then, in Section III, we will present the measurements and fingerprinting data collection and simulation. We give a system description and theoretical analysis of support vector machine. Section V provides performance evaluation of the algorithm in.

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Ontario Canada, Mine Radio Systems (MRS) --Global designer and manufacturer of communication systems to increase owners and operator’s safety, productivity and profitability in the mining and tunnelling industries has successfully installed its Centrian and Helian systems in 8 mines in Brazil and Peru.“MRS has had an extremely strong presence for the last 25 years in South America, specifically Brazil, Peru and Chile.  It’s one of our most productive and growing regions and is continuing to show why with the increase in mine communication and safety requirements” Ken Morrell, President MRS