SK Broadband Integrates Latest ICT Technologies into Mining Development

Promotion of Smart Mining Business

SK Broadband announced on the 5th that it signed a business agreement on the 3rd at the Seoul Coal Hall to promote smart mining in the mineral resources industry. From the left in the photo: Jeong Minsu, Executive Director of Hanwha; Kim Jaesung, Chairman of the Korea Mining Association; Kwon Soonjin, Head of the Korea Mine Reclamation Corporation; Bae Iyul, Executive Director of the Korea Standards Association; Choi Pancheol, Corporate Officer of SK Broadband. Photo by Jeong Minsu

[Asia Economy Reporter Cha Min-young] SK Broadband announced on the 5th that it will promote a smart mining project to automate and unmannedly develop mines in cooperation with the Korea Mine Reclamation Corporation.

The Korea Mine Reclamation Corporation is a public enterprise established in September last year through the merger of the Korea Resources Corporation and the Korea Mine Reclamation Corporation.

To this end, SK Broadband held a business agreement ceremony on the 3rd with the Korea Mine Reclamation Corporation, Korea Mining Association, Korea Standards Association, Hanwha, and others. This agreement was promoted to revitalize the mineral resource self-sufficiency ecosystem, whose importance has been emphasized due to the recent raw material supply shortage, and to improve the productivity of individual mines by introducing advanced technology.

Smart mining is a technology that combines ICT technology with mining development equipment to enhance work efficiency and safety through real-time communication between people, devices, or objects, and is regarded as a core of the 4th industrial revolution in the mining sector.

SK Broadband will build wired and wireless communication infrastructure within mines and carry out projects for installing and operating IoT sensors that detect gas leaks or earthquakes and real-time monitoring CCTV. In addition, it will be responsible for consulting on communication service solutions to strengthen remote management and maintaining and servicing real-time control systems.

Choi Pan-cheol, head of SK Broadband's corporate division, said, "Through this business agreement, SK Broadband will be able to build a safer and more efficient mining environment by providing ICT technology and solutions accumulated so far," and added, "We will strive for active technology development, standardization, and training of professionals."

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