Caplamp Smart Charging Rack | Lamp Room Systems

Confidence Every
Shift Underground

An intelligent caplamp charging and monitoring rack designed for South Africa’s mining lamp rooms. Built to ensure every lamp issued is safe, fully charged, and compliant.

Purpose-Built for the South African Underground operations.

The Schauenburg Systems Caplamp Smart Charging Rack is engineered specifically for the demanding and highly regulated conditions found in South Africa’s underground mining Lamproom sector. Designed for durability, safety, and operational intelligence, the rack provides a modernised approach to charging, monitoring, and managing miners’ cap lamps at scale.

Underground environments present unique challenges: harsh temperatures, high humidity, dust, vibration, and the need for absolute reliability of safety-critical equipment such as cap lamps. The Smart Charging Rack addresses these challenges through a robust steel structure, intelligent charging architecture, and real-time monitoring capabilities that ensure every lamp issued underground is safe, fully charged, and performing optimally.

Features

Intelligent Charging

Automatically manages fast-charge and trickle-charge modes to ensure optimal battery health.

Tracks voltage, current, temperature, and lamp presence at every charging point.

Industrial-grade design built to withstand dust, humidity, vibration, and temperature extremes.

Integrates seamlessly into SmartMine for full digital visibility and reporting.

Built-in over-charge and short-circuit protection safeguards lamps and users.

Available in 30-, 60-, 120-, and 200-way variants to suit any lamp room size.

Key Problems Solved in the Underground Mining Context

1. Ensuring Lamp Availability and Charge Reliability
Traditional charging stations often lack visibility into whether lamps are charging correctly or reaching full charge. The Smart Charging Rack uses PWM-controlled intelligent charging with automatic fast-charge and trickle-charge modes, ensuring every lamp meets required charge levels before deployment. This reduces shift delays and eliminates the risk of issuing undercharged or faulty lamps.

2. Reducing Operational Downtime and Maintenance Burden
Dust, humidity, temperature fluctuations, and physical wear are normal in lamp rooms. The rack’s industrial-grade construction, intuitive LED indicators, and low-maintenance electrical design significantly reduce failure rates and routine upkeep. Yearly dust-cleaning and simple contract maintenance keep the system running smoothly, decreasing downtime and technician workload.

3. Real-Time Visibility Through SmartMine Integration
With per-point voltage, current, distance (presence detection), temperature sensing, and NFC data retrieval capability, the Smart Charging Rack introduces full digital visibility into the lamp-charging environment. Supervisors can identify abnormal charging behaviour, lamp defects, or environmental risks early—directly from the dashboard—enabling data-driven safety and asset-management decisions.

4. Enhancing Safety Compliance
By automatically detecting charging status, lamp presence, and completion, the system ensures that users only receive lamps that are fully charged and safe for underground use. Over-charge and short-circuit protection add additional safety layers, supporting compliance with mine health and safety regulations.

5. Scalable Chraging for All Lamproom Operation Sizes
Available in 30-way, 60-way, and 120-way 200-Way configurations, the rack accommodates lamp rooms of all sizes—from smaller operations to large multi-shaft mines. Modular architecture supports future expansion and long-term fleet growth without redesigning infrastructure.

Engineering Features

Controlled intelligent charging with automatic mode switching

Per-point sensing of voltage, current, temperature, and lamp presence

NFC capability for lamp data retrieval

Industrial electrical design with low maintenance requirements

Modular architecture supporting future expansion

Technical Specifications

<strong>PARAMETER <strong>VALUE / UNIT
Charging Control PWM intelligent charging
Rack Capacity Options 30 / 60 / 120 / 200 way
Monitoring Parameters Voltage, Current, Temperature, Presence
Construction Industrial-grade steel
Environment Underground mining lamp rooms

Information

DC Voltage Detection Sensor 0 - 10V
Current Detection Sensor 0 - 5A
Range Sensor Used to detect if there is a lamp on charge
Temperature Detection - 40 °C min to 120 °C max
NFC Allow for data transfer between the Caplamp and Smart Charger