An approach to discover false alarms in monitoring system of the copper mine

The key task of telecommunication systems in deep mining is to ensure safety and continuity of production. These systems, despite modern and innovative infrastructure monitoring solutions, are not free from drawbacks. The occurrence of false alarms of damage to infrastructure is the practical problem which causes many negative effects, such as increasing the cost of the current operation of the system, information overload of operators, and service errors. In this paper a method for detecting false alarms in the communication system of the copper mine is proposed, presenting some rules that provide useful knowledge extracted from the database. A variety of experiments were carried out on real data from the telecommunications system operating in the copper mine KGHM Polska Miedź S.A.