摘要 |
A base station (10) for wireless communication with equipment on a mine operation (40). The base station (10) is moveable and comprises a wireless network interface (16) arranged to facilitate communications with a monitoring station (14) and with at least one item of mine equipment (12) so that at least one item of mine equipment is monitorable and/or controllable from the monitoring station (14) through the base station (10). The base station also includes a camera (20) arranged to capture images of an area of the mine operation (40) adjacent the base station. The base station (10) is arranged to communicate information indicative of the captured images to the monitoring station (14) through the wireless network interface (16).
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