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Wipro and US-based Leica Geosystems have bagged a Rs 120 crore project that involves setting up operator-independent truck dispatch systems (OITDS) at the eleven large mines belonging to Coal India. CIL had carried out an internal study which revealed high losses if trucks & equipments remained idle for half an hour. OITDS aims at cutting down the idle times at mines to maximise use of all vehicles and equipment at mines.

In the first phase, 11 mines under various CIL subsidiaries will be included in the project. While Wipro will be responsible for installing the system at four mines under SECL and ECL, Leice will install the system at seven mines.

Trucks will be installed with a mobile data transmitter (MDT) which will send crucial data and the co-ordinates to four satellites hovering over the mine at that time. Shovels and other excavation equipment will also be installed with these transmitters. These satellites will, in turn, beam the data on a real-time basis to a control room near each mine.

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