Proceedings of 2020 IEEE International Conference on ID20064

Applied Superconductivity and Electromagnetic Devices

Tianjin, China, October 16-18, 2020

Motor Mperating State Monitoring System Design

Using Wireless Sensor Network

Junhui Cheng Jianxun Jin

School of Electrical and Optoelectronic Engineering School of Electrical Engineering and Automation
West Anhui University Tianjin University
Lu’an, China Tianjin, China
austchengjunhui@126.com asemd@tju.edu.cn

Bin Wang*, Yourui Huang

School of electrical and Information Engineering
Anhui University of Science and Technology
Huainan, China
perfect_co@qq.com, hyr628@163.com

Abstract—In view of the current lack of effective monitoring of
motors in coal mine work areas, in order to achieve centralized
monitoring and protection of the motor operating status. This
paper designs and implements a wireless sensor network motor
operating state monitoring system based on LORA technology
based on the actual distribution of motors in the mining area.
The system monitors the temperature, current and voltage
parameters of various motors in the coal mine working face in
real time. And after the data processing through the coordinator
node, the data is transmitted to the upper computer expert
system through the serial port to realize the online diagnosis and
remote intelligent monitoring of the motor. Experimental results
show that the wireless sensor network monitoring system can
realize online diagnosis and remote intelligent monitoring of the
motor, improve the intelligence of the monitoring system, and
reduce the cost of system construction and maintenance.
Keywords-coal mine; motor; monitoring; wireless sensor
network
I. INTRODUCTION
Compared with the traditional wired network, the wireless
network has the advantages of low construction cost, strong
expansibility and good maintainability. The wireless sensor
network using LoRa technology has the characteristics of low
power consumption and long transmission distance, which is
especially suitable for the construction of wireless monitoring
network of underground coal mining face with less power
distribution and narrow length. This paper designs and
implements a wireless sensor network motor operating state
monitoring system by using LORA technology.
Underground mine equipment reliability is the main
prerequisite for ensuring the safety and smooth production of
coal mines. It is particularly important for large scale,
continuous, high load operation of mine equipment. If the
motor equipment breaks down, the lighter one will cause the
coal mine production to stop and cause more serious economic
losses. Many electrical equipment operate independently and
distributed in different areas,which can not guarantee that each
equipment will have someone on duty in real time. Real time
monitoring of the running status and speed of various motors
under the mine is an important way to ensure the safety and
continuous production of the environment.
II. OVERALL SYSTEM DESIGN
A. Overall System Design
The block diagram of wireless sensor network system
based on LoRa is shown in Fig.1. The system is mainly
composed of monitoring center, router, gateway, coordinator
node, routing node and terminal node.The terminal node is
responsible for collecting the data of current, voltage,
temperature, speed and operating status when the motor is
running; the routing node is responsible for acquiring the data
sent by the corresponding terminal node and processing and
forwarding it to the coordinator node; the coordinator node is
responsible for obtaining the data sent by each routing node
and Choose an appropriate route to send; the gateway sends the
received wireless signal to the monitoring center by wire; the
monitoring center realizes the functions of data processing,
display, storage, alarm and remote terminal control through the
software of the host computer.
Figure 1. Wireless sensor network system block diagram.

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China

（ 61772033 ） ； University Natural Science Research Project of Anhui
Province KJ2018A0417. (Corresponding author: Bin Wang.)

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B. System Hardware Design
The system hardware design mainly includes the
coordinator node, routing node and interrupt node. The main
controllers of the three types of nodes all use
STM32F103ZET6 equipped with LoRa communication chip
to realize data processing and wireless transmission. Node
hardware circuit structure block shown in Fig. 2. The terminal
node is powered by 18650 lithium battery of SONY company,
equipped with temperature sensor, voltage sensor, current
sensor and Hall sensor; the routing node and the coordinator
node do not contain various sensors, and use battery power
supply. The coordinator node, routing node and terminal node
of the system can be expanded according to actual needs, and
the sensor of the terminal node can also be expanded or
replaced.
Figure 2. Block diagram of node hardware circuit.
C. Software Design
The LoRa wireless sensor network realized by realizing
the networking through the MCU and realizes the wireless
transmission of data. When the system starts, first complete
the system initialization, realize the hardware interface
initialization, communication parameters initialization and
working mode initialization. The coordinator node initiates
network access to query the number and signal status of
network nodes, to query the online status and communication
quality of the node. If the network communication is not
smooth, the communication protocol and working mode can
be optimized to finally ensure that each node transmission
reaches the optimal mode. After the completion of network
signal adjustment, the coordinator node initiates networking
command to realize networking, then obtains relevant
information according to the set frequency in the working
process, and ensures that the network is always in the optimal
state. The flow chart of system networking software is shown
in Fig. 3.
Figure 3. Flow chart of system networking software.
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III. SYSTEM TEST
In order to ensure the transmission distance and
communication stability of the system, we tested the packet
loss rate under the mine of 100 metres, 200 metres and 300
metres communication distance. Result shows that when the
number of nodes is 20, the packet loss rates at 100 metres, 200
metres, and 300 metres communication distances are 0.3%,
0.6%, and 1.2%. Respectively, the packet loss rate increases as
the number of networking nodes increases. When the
communication distance exceeds 300 metres, the packet loss
rate has a significant upward trend. The system packet loss rate
is shown in Fig. 4.
Figure 4. System packet loss rate.
IV. CONCLUSION
i) Wireless sensor network motor state monitoring system
using LoRa technology is designed. This system can realize
data collection and upload the running state of the motor in the
mine, and can process and store each data.
ii) Experimental test results show that the signal
transmission quality is affected by factors such as environment,
transmission power, and communication distance.
iii) Under the premise of ensuring data stability, the system
adopts 15dB transmission frequency and 300 metres
communication distance. It has been verified that the system
can meet the requirements of the operation status monitoring of
the mine motor.
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