Global provider of information and communication technology solutions ZTE Corporation, together with its partners, specifically, the Dahaize coal of China Coal Group Shaanxi Company, China Coal Technology and Engineering Group, China Coal Information Technology, China Mobile and China Broadnet, recently won the GSMA "5G Energy Challenge Award" 2023.
They received the recognition for their joint efforts in the project "Dual-frequency 5G Networks for Smarter Coal Mining."
Currently, although the intelligent transformation of the coal mine has become the consensus of the industry, negative factors like high risk for the underground personnel, insufficient data transmission capacity in production, complex production and management systems as well as difficult business integration still pose a great threat to the industry, which makes it difficult to promote the current "5G private network 1.0" construction mode.
As one of the first batches of intelligent demonstration mines in China, Dahaize Coal Mine, bolstered with 5G 700MHz and 2.6GHz integrated networking, original intrinsically safe base stations and new cloud network architecture, has improved the coverage of base stations while ensuring large bandwidth.
It solves the problem of coal mine underground dispatching, realizes no optical cables in the working face, effectively reduces the network construction cost and promotes the intelligent development of Dahaize Coal Mine, shaking off the image of being "bitter, dirty and tired" of the coal industry.
The success of the "Dual-frequency 5G Networks for Smarter Coal Mining" project marks the successful practice of the first 5G 700MHz band and 2.6GHz fusion technology in the coal field in China, and it also lays the foundation for the in-depth development of "5G+" virtual interactive applications, robot clusters, unmanned driving, intelligent wearable equipment, intelligent patrol inspection, intelligent comprehensive mining, intelligent tunnelling and other applications in coal mines.