Kittila Mine

Kittila Mine is in Finland and as the mine develops their engineers wanted to implement a communication backbone that would serve the mines current and future needs. Additionally Agnico Eagle are noted for their proactive adoption of technologies to improve the operating efficiencies, as well as contributing to their safety and environmental objectives.Hence Agnico Eagle have chosen MST’s ImPact Digital System to provide the backbone for their various communication and data requirements. Initially these requirements are:
- Two-way voice communications via VoIP phones
- Tracking via active RFID Tags worn by miners and attached to mobile equipment.To achieve the first stage, the installation consists of:

• 16 x ImPact Wireless Network Switches (WNS)
• 13 xPoE ImPact Access Points
• 90 x ICCL Miners Cap Lamps, with internal RFID Tags
• 10 x AeroScout T2 Tags, that will be powered from vehicles
• 20 VoIP Telephones, and associated server and gateway software
• ImPact TRACKER Engine and Viewer, for tracking software and operator display.

By using a Wi-Fi based underground digital network as the backbone, the mine can add other applications over time without the need to install any other type of data highway. An example will be the introduction of the Vehicle Intelligence Platform (VIP) modules to vehicles to allow the real-time monitoring of engine diagnostics, payload and location data to enhance efficiencies in the production system as the mine grows.

The system is being supplied and installed by our Canadian office. This Sudbury office was one of the first of MST’s branches to get involved in digital based communications, and the quality of their skills in this area has been acknowledged with this deployment in Finland, and we are appreciative of Agnico Eagle’s support of our mine communication & tracking technologies.

More information on Digital Mine Communications can be seen at Underground Wi-Fi Mine Communications