One of the most important problems in mining is the failure of the conveyor belts. These failures are caused by overheating of the supporting rollers that can induce fires, reaching large economic losses and sometimes, human losses.
CALSENS has developed a new monitoring system of conveyor belts for mining sector. This system is capable of detecting a malfunction of the supporting rollers of the belt prematurely and thus avoid possible fires and their devastating consequences.
The monitoring system is based on optical fiber technology.