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FLUIDITY TECHNOLOGY for MINING

AUTOMATION

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Company Background

London
Chicago Paris
Milan
Taipei
New York

Founded in 2005 by a team


of researchers from MIT
Lima and Politecnico di Milano.

Global Partnerships 6 Continents 75 Countries

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TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS

Mobility
Wireless High speed trains Industrial
CCTV and Security Infrastructure Buses Automation
Municipalities Enterprise Backbone Ferries SCADA
Public Safety Cellular Backbone Emergency Vehicles Condition Monitoring
VoIP Infrastructures Heavy Equipment
Transportation Traffic Control
Mining
Digital Divide Utilities
Border Control Grade crossing
Rural Wireless Smartgrids
Campus/Plant Security Onboard Wi-Fi
Public Access

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FLUIDMESH PRODUCTS

Fluidmesh Hardware
2.3–2.7, 3.3-3.65, 4.9-6.0 GHz

FM 1200 FM 3200 FM 3200 FM 4200 FM 1300


FLUIDMESH PONTE VOLO BASE ENDO MOBI OTTO

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Topologies ABOUT FLUIDMESH

FIXED ARCHITECTURES

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FLUIDITYTM

FLUIDITYTM NETWORK TOPOLOGY

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Mining Applications
• Fleet Management
• Live monitoring of mobile
equipment telemetry
• Real-time video feeds for
operations
• Video Surveillance
• Access Control
• Safety System Monitoring
• Mobile Field Communications
• Field access to drill and blast data
• Mining Management Software
• Autonomous and semi-
autonomous mining application

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Demand for connectivity in Automation

VEHICLE CONNECTIVITY
=
EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY
=
$ PROFITABILITY

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Multi-Mode Wireless Strategy in OT and Automation

OT – Onsite Connectivity

802.11 Fluidmesh
LTE
WiFi MPLS

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FLUIDITYTM

KPIs for Vehicle/Industrial Automation

BANDWIDTH ROLLOUT COST

LATENCY UPTIME

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ON THE GO

Freight Yard / Ports

• Cameras on locomotives, watched in the yard office


/ dispatch

• Video in yard, watched on locomotives

• Offload vehicle diagnostics recorded on trip / in dark


territory

• RCL augmentation

• Interact with train & attendant workers without


pausing operations

• Analytics to back office processing

• Safety enhancement

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TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGES
Software and hardware that makes just better.

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TECHNOLOGY

PRODIGYTM 2.0
Reliable wireless transmission for mission-critical applications

• MPLS-based transmission protocol;

• Build-in in-depth packet inspection algorithm


to assign a specific level of priority and
reliability to every packet transmitted;

• Robust in high interference areas;

• Low latency and jitter;

• Fast Roaming for Mobility Applications.

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FLUIDITYTM

GOING FAST IS HARD: FLUIDITY CROSS-LAYER APPROACH

• Make/confirm before break


• IP address management • MPLS-based network reconfiguration
Network Layer • Handoff & reachability • MPLS tables are modified seamlessly
• Service disruption • no packet loss during handoff on network
• Quality of Service update
• 2 patents

• Mobile initiated handoff


• Rate selection • Background monitoring RSSI from APs
MAC Layer • Handoff • Select best pairing & notify handoff to net
• Acquisition • Predictive rate selection
• 1 patent

• Larger guard intervals


• Doppler effect
Physical Layer • Signal distortions
• MIMO-OFDM
• 2x2 MIMO is more predictable
• Channel coherence
• High gain directional antenna design

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FLUIDITYTM

Advantages

30-50% Less
up to 500 Mbps
per vehicle Wayside Trailers
High Gain Antenna Technology

0 ms 99.999%
handoff time network availability

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FLUDITY

FLUIDITY: Typical Network Topology

BACKBONE
Internet

xDSL

Fiber/Copper Microwave

FM3200 Base

FM4200 MOBI

TRACKSIDE

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FLUIDITYTM

FLUIDITY: HANDOFF TIME (PATENT NO. 8,355,368)

.5 – 3 mi .5 – 3 mi

Fluidity 0 milliseconds of imperceptible lossless handoff.


Make before break approach
Controller
Cisco Mobility
Based Mobility

802.11 Wi-Fi

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

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Depot Broadband Wireless for Vehicle Fleets

FLUIDITY
Up to 1.5
Gbps of
Aggregate
Throughput

Vehicle
On-board Video Emergency
Telemetry and
Surveillance Communication
Automation

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Wi-Fi: LIMITED THROUGHPUT DUE TO LACK OF CLIENT COORDINATION

Throughput
per Wi-Fi
Client Sharp drop in performance due
to channel collisions and
overhead

Number of clients per Wi-Fi Access Point

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FLUIDITY SERIALIZED AND COORDINATED ACCESS ALGORITHM MAXIMISES
CHANNEL USAGE MINIMISING OVERHEAD

Throughput
per Client Fluidmesh: No exponential
decline due to overhead and
conflicts

Wi-Fi

Number of clients per Access Point

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TECHNOLOGY

Interactive network manager Auto-troubleshooting tool

Spectrum Analyzer network analytics

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PRODUCT PORTFOLIO
Powerful Wireless Backhauling

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FM 3200 BASETM

FM 3200 BASE
• Rugged die-cast aluminum enclosure
• Range: Up to 16 miles / 24 Km
• Frequency bands: 4.9-5.9 GHz
• Antenna Type: Sector 2x2 MIMO
• Throughput: up to 150 Mbps
• Latency per hop: <0.3ms
14.3 in / 365 mm

• Horizontal Beamwidth Coverage: 120 deg


• Vertical Beamwidth Coverage: 10 deg
• 1 RJ45 Ethernet Port
• 1 802.3af PoE Gigabit Port
• Weight: 80 oz / 2,2 kg

7 in / 180 mm

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FM 3200 ENDO

FM 3200/3500 ENDO

• Rugged die-cast aluminum enclosure


• Radio Type: 2x2 MIMO
• Frequency bands: 2.3, 2.4, 3.3-3.7, 4.9-5.9 GHz
9.1 in/ 230 mm

• Connectors: x2 R-SMA
• Bandwidth: 120/210/500 Mbps
• Latency per hop: <0.3ms
• 1 RJ45 Ethernet Port
• 1 802.3af PoE Gigabit Port
• Weight: 25oz / 700 gr

5,2 in / 132 mm

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FM 4200

Onboard - FM4200 MOBI Transportation Radio

QMA connectors

Transportation Standards:
• EN50155
• EN50121-3
Redundant 48V • EN50121-4
DC input • EN45545 (Fire)
• AREMA 11.5.1
• IEC 60571
• EN50129 (CBTC)
Gigabit PoE M12 connectors

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TECHNOLOGY

FLUIDTHROTTLETM
Reduce the cost of ownership, select the amount of throughput you need.

TRHOUGHPUT NEEDED FLUIDMESH

up to 1 Mbps $

up to 2.5 Mbps $

up to 5 Mbps $

up to 10 Mbps $$

up to 30 Mbps $$

up to 60 Mbps $$$

up to 100 Mbps $$$$

Up to 150 Mbps $$$$

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ON-BOARD ANTENNA

TRACKSIDE OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNA

• 4-12 dBi 2x2 MIMO Omnidirectional Antenna

FM3200ENDO-OMNI

4-12 dBi Gain

• 2x2 MIMO provides highest predictable datarate in outdoor mobility

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ON-BOARD ANTENNA

Horn High Gain ANTENNA


• 10 dBi 90deg X 90deg 2x2 MIMO Horn Antenna • 13 dBi 60deg X 60 deg 2x2 MIMO Horn Antenna

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HORN ANTENNA RF PROPAGATION

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ONBOARD RADIO SETUPS
RF Vehicle Connectivity

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SYSTEM DESIGN

Hauler Onboard Setup: Dual-Radio Omni

360o

360o

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SYSTEM DESIGN

Hauler Onboard Setup: Dual-Radio Omni

30o 30o

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SYSTEM DESIGN

Dozer Onboard Setup: Two Radios Omni

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SYSTEM DESIGN

Dozer Onboard Setup: Two Radios Omni

30o 30o 30o 30o

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Dozer Installations - Examples

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SYSTEM DESIGN

Dozer Onboard Setup: Four Radios High Gain Configuration

90o

90o

90o

90o

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SYSTEM DESIGN

Dozer Onboard Setup: Four Radios High Gain Configuration

90o 90o 90o


90o

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SYSTEM DESIGN
Blast Hole Drill Onboard Setup: Two Radios Omni Configuration

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SYSTEM DESIGN
Blast Hole Drill Onboard Setup: Four Radios High Gain Configuration

Requirements:
8 Mbps per Drill (with TR)
4x FM4500M-HW 1 Mbps per Drill (without TR)
4x FM4500-FLU-MOB-20 Max 2 Drills per Trailer
4x FM-VLAN

3x FM-CONE-60

1x FM-OMNI - 10

8x FM-CABLE-QMA2N-2FT

4x POE Injector

90o

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WAYSIDE RADIO SETUPS
RF Vehicle Connectivity

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Distribution and Access Layer
Tower/Fiber
Trailers

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Wireless V2I Multi Frequency Network (100 ms Handoff)

Fiber Backbone Fiber Backbone Fiber Backbone

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Wireless V2I Multi Freq. Dual-Radio Network (0 ms Handoff)

Fiber Backbone Fiber Backbone Fiber Backbone

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VEHICLE TO VEHICLE MESH - Network Infrastructure

Vehicle
On-board Video Emergency
Telemetry and
Surveillance Communication
Automation

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UNDERGROUND RADIO SETUPS
RF Vehicle Connectivity

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SYSTEM DESIGN

Radio deployment in tunnel

400-800 Yards
400-800 Yards

400-800 Yards

To provide the best coverage, antennas should be deployed each 400-800 yards along
the tunnel

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FLUIDITYTM

Advantages

50% More Range


up to 500 Mbps
Support 20, 40, 80 Mhz Channels than WIFI
64/256 QAM Modulation High-Gain 2x2 MIMO Dual Slant
Antennas

Remote
0 ms
handoff time Serviceability
SNMP Compatible / SSH

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SYSTEM DESIGN

Wireless Communication in Underground Mining – Multi-mode Setup

In-tunnel Laptops/Tablets
On-board Laptops/Tablets
802.11 WiFi Access
VOWiFi Two-way Radios
Tags
Guest Access WiFi

Fluidmesh MPLS FX In-tunnel FX PLCs Backhaul


Backhaul (Ventilation, SCADA, etc)
In-tunnel FX Cameras Backhaul
WiFi AP Backhaul

Fluidmesh MPLS Tele-remote Operations / Control


V2V/V2I Backhaul On-Trucks Live Video Backhaul
On-truck PLC and Telemetry
Backhaul
On-truck WiFi Backhaul
Fiber Autonomous Haulage
Fleet Dispatch*

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Underground Communication – Overall Layout

10
3
5

9
4 11
7

13
8 12

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Underground Communication – Wireless Mesh Backbone

1
3
2

8
5

7
6

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Underground Communication – Wireless MESH for Vehicle Access

1
3
2

8
5

7
6

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ANTENNAS

WAYSIDE AND ONBOARD ANTENNA – FM-TUBE

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SYSTEM DESIGN

Underground SETUP – Dual Radio Backbone / One Radio Access


Fluidmesh HW and SW at each wayside location

Wayside Site #5 Wayside Site #4


Wayside Site #1

10x FM4500M-HW
Wayside Site #3
10x FM4500-MOB-TRK-UN

10x FM-TUBE

10x FM-CABLE-QMA2N-4FT

10x FM-VLAN

Wayside Site #2

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SYSTEM DESIGN

Underground SETUP – Dual Radio Backbone / One Radio Access


Fluidmesh HW and SW at each wayside location
Wayside Site #1

Wayside Site #2

Fluidmesh Wireless
Wayside Site #3

Backbone
On-board Setup #1
Wayside Site #4

5x FM4500M-HW
1x FM4500M-HW
5x FM4500-MOB-TRK-UN
1x FM4500-MOB-MOB-UN
5x FM-OMNI Wayside Site #5
1x FM-OMNI
10x FM-CABLE-QMA2N-6FT
2x FM-CABLE-QMA2N-6FT

1x FM-VLAN 5x FM-VLAN

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MINING REFERENCES

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Mining References

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SUCCESSFUL TRACK RECORD IN RAIL AND TRANSIT

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Cosimo Malesci
EVP Sales & Marketing
Fluidmesh Networks
E-mail: cosimo.malesci@fluidmesh.com
@fluidmesh

www.fluidmesh.com
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