Peabody Energy Selects Rajant and Wagner Equipment

Rajant Corporation, a provider of portable mobile wireless networking solutions, announced today that it has inked an agreement with Denver-based Wagner Equipment Co. to distribute and support its BreadCrumb wireless mesh communications product line. Wagner has also commissioned a mine-wide deployment of BreadCrumbs at the Peabody El Segundo operation for a Machine Guidance Control System.

 

“Rajant is very proud to be partnered with Wagner, part of the worldwide Caterpillar dealer network,” said Frank Olivieri, director of mining business development for Rajant. “Wagner has a great reputation in the mining industry and winning the confidence of Peabody Energy is a great endorsement of the Rajant BreadCrumb wireless mesh solution.”

 

Through Wagner, the El Segundo mine is using Rajant BreadCrumb systems as the wireless mobile network for Caterpillar’s CAESultra equipped tractors in an interconnected wireless, meshed, self-healing network that also allows trucks, shovels, dozers, VoIP Phones, and laptops to communicate with each other in real-time.

 

Many devices that require wireless communications are constantly on the move throughout the mine and the BreadCrumb nodes will be able to rapidly adapt to any changes in the network topology, assuring that IP traffic uptime and bandwidth are maximized.

 

“Wagner is excited to be an authorized Rajant reseller,” said Jeff Gartz, sales development manager for Wagner. “The Rajant BreadCrumb solution is already helping mining companies such as Peabody Energy become more efficient with their operations. Because of their ability to adapt and scale, we think the Rajant technology will prove to be a competitive advantage to those companies who choose to deploy it.”

 

Rajant network does not need any ‘root node,’ central access point or ‘LAN controller,’ eliminating extra network latency and single points of failure. Since Rajant adheres to open standards, it allows the tractors to receive high precision RTK GPS corrections and share terrain data in real-time through peer-to-peer communications by the BreadCrumbs.

 

Rajant Corporation enables secure communications-on-the-move through a portable meshed wireless network that can rapidly reconfigure and adapt in real-time. Rajant's BreadCrumb Wireless solutions provide networks for mining, homeland security, military, first responders and public safety and provide voice and data communications across a meshed, self-healing network. Rajant’s BreadCrumb network nodes communicate with IP-based client devices, such as laptops, PDAs, video cameras, satellite terminals, networked radios, RFID’s and sensor devices.

Arun Satapathy is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Arun's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Eve Sullivan