After SMIPL's successful WCL ICCC deployment, South Eastern Coalfields Limited — a separate Coal India subsidiary with a separate tender, scope and contract — engaged SMIPL to build its own AI-enabled Integrated Command & Control Centre. The scope covers 832 cameras across 13 operational Areas including Gevra and Kusmunda, the 2nd and 3rd largest coal mines in the world by annual output.
South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) is one of the largest coal producers in India, operating across Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. Its portfolio includes the Gevra and Kusmunda mines, ranked 2nd and 3rd largest coal mines in the world by annual output, alongside Dipka, Raigarh, Korba and eight other operational Areas spread across the central-Indian coalfield.
Following SMIPL's successful deployment of India's first AI-enabled ICCC at Western Coalfields Limited, SECL engaged SMIPL under an independent, separately-tendered contract to deliver its own command centre. The scale is significant: 832 cameras in Phase 1, with VMS licensing provisioned for 1,300 cameras to accommodate planned expansion. A dedicated ICCC was to be built at SECL headquarters in Bilaspur.
The SECL brief was demanding — and deliberately so. Given the strategic importance of the mines served, SECL required a command centre that could deliver proven AI analytics at mine-industry scale, full ONVIF-compliant VMS architecture, a 6-year operational commitment, and round-the-clock three-operator staffing with documented escalation matrices.
Scaling what worked at WCL to the SECL estate wasn't a copy-paste job. It was re-engineered — larger video wall, higher server density, more analytics concurrency, different geography. The brief was not just more of the same — it was more of the same, done better.
— Project Scope Note · SMIPL Engineering TeamSMIPL built the SECL ICCC as an end-to-end turnkey delivery — design, supply, installation, commissioning and 24×7 operation. The central command centre sits at SECL HQ Bilaspur, integrating live feeds, AI analytics and alerts from all 13 operational Areas into a unified command view. The architecture is ONVIF-compliant, multi-vendor capable, and designed for linear scale from 832 to 1,300 cameras without re-architecture.
All 13 SECL Areas feed into the Bilaspur command centre: Bilaspur, Korba, Gevra, Dipka, Kusmunda, Raigarh, Baikunthpur, Bishrampur, Chirimiri, Jamuna Kotma, Hasdeo, Sohagpur and Johilla. Each Area runs local 64-channel NVRs with 80 TB surveillance storage for distributed recording (30+ days retention), while live feeds and event data flow into the central command view at HQ.
The SECL platform runs up to five concurrent analytics models on any single camera, covering the full spectrum of mine-operations intelligence — the same proven analytics suite deployed at WCL, tuned for SECL's specific Areas and operational patterns:
The SECL ICCC is built around a core bill-of-materials supplied, installed and commissioned by SMIPL:
Beyond hardware, the SECL contract includes VMS licences scalable to 1,300 cameras, recording licences for all 832 cameras, viewing licences for 50 simultaneous operators, plus a full 6-year operational commitment: three round-the-clock operators deployed at SECL HQ Bilaspur for 24×7 monitoring, alert generation, escalation matrix management and operational reporting.
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The SECL ICCC scaled what had been proven at WCL to the operational footprint of the world's largest coal mines — 832 cameras live, 13 Areas federated into one command view at Bilaspur, 10 concurrent AI analytics types, 24×7 three-operator manned command across a 6-year operational SLA.
A single-pane-of-glass view across all 13 SECL Areas — including Gevra and Kusmunda — replacing distributed monitoring with unified command intelligence at Bilaspur HQ.
AI analytics running on intrusion, tampering, PPE, smoke/fire and entry/exit enable intervention in minutes rather than hours — with automated alerts routed through documented escalation matrices.
ANPR, loading-state analytics and entry/exit tracking produce an auditable digital record of every vehicle movement — supporting dispatch accuracy, anti-pilferage controls, and management reporting at the scale of the world's largest coal mines.
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