Employing the digital platform for control system development in a coal mining enterprise

Abstract

The article discusses the issues related with a digital platform for distributed energy resources in the framework of mining enterprises. The paper examines the directions of sustainable development of the infrastructure of a mining enterprise, among which it is necessary to highlight the use of digital twins, taking into account the relationship of technological processes with the processes of transport of electrical energy, the development of small generation and the use of renewable energy sources. The authors proposed a two-level architecture of a coal mine control system, the implementation of which is possible with the introduction of IoT devices. It includes the EDGE layer and the Cloud / on-premise layer, which implement the corresponding functions. In the future, such a control system will make it possible to implement the concept of unmanned mining with the effective use of machine learning methods. In conclusion, it was noted that it is important to ensure the synergy of the developed platform solutions in the electric power industry and the mining industry to reduce the total costs of creating digital mining enterprises and step-by-step implementation of the Industry 4.0 concept.