Terms of Use & Evaluation Conditions

The MINE GUARD web platform, API endpoints, firmware codebases, machine learning models, and simulated datasets are provided solely for:

• Demonstration and technical evaluation by Smart India Hackathon (SIH 2026) judges, mentors, and organizing committees.
• Academic research and peer review in the fields of mine subsidence monitoring, edge computing (TinyML), and multi-sensor fusion.
• Exploration of low-cost open-hardware telemetry architectures for Indian underground coal mining conditions.

This website is an engineering demonstration platform, not a commercial software-as-a-service (SaaS) product. There are no fees, subscriptions, or commercial transactions.

Underground coal mining involves complex geotechnical dynamics, hydrostatic pressures, tectonic stress fields, and high-risk strata behavior. Users, colliery managers, mining engineers, and third parties must NOT rely on the telemetry, anomaly scores, or risk classifications presented on this website for operational decisions:

• No Guaranteed Collapse Foresight: The platform implements statistical anomaly detection (running MAD, robust Z-scores, and EWMA rate-of-change filters). It does not claim deterministic prediction of the exact time, location, or probability of roof falls or surface trough collapse.
• No Certification Implied: Transducer specifications, LoRa range figures, and unit costs reflect laboratory bench tests and prototype design criteria. Physical deployment in active Indian underground mines requires formal intrinsic safety (Ex 'i' / IS/IEC 60079-11) testing and statutory approval by the Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR) and DGMS.
• Statutory Precedence: Final operational decisions, including workforce withdrawal, support intensification, and barricading, remain the sole statutory prerogative of the certified Colliery Manager and Safety Officer under DGMS CMR 2017 Regulation 112.

Evaluators are permitted and encouraged to:

• Navigate all 14 operational views, GIS vectors, and compliance registers.
• Operate the Strata Event Simulator across baseline, machinery vibration, sensor drift, gradual deformation, and catastrophic progression scenarios.
• Inspect mathematical anomaly models, source code, and API contracts.
• Simulate shift handover approvals and statutory audit trail generations.

Automated denial-of-service testing, unauthorized injection of malicious payloads into the ingestion API, or tampering with live backend telemetry feeds without prior authorization is strictly prohibited.

This software and documentation are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular colliery purpose, or geotechnical accuracy. In no event shall the student engineering authors, mentors, or supporting institutions be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from the use or inability to use this prototype platform.

This project is submitted in fulfillment of the guidelines established by the Smart India Hackathon 2026 (Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell and AICTE).