  With the growth of coal production, the load on the production capacity of
coal enterprises also increases, which leads to a concomitant increase in dust
formation in both opencast and underground methods of mining coal deposits.
Dust, generated during drilling, blasting operations, excavation, loading,
crushing and transportation of mined rock is one of the factors that has a
negative impact on the health of mining workers and on the level of
environmental pollution with solid particles. Thus, increasing the efficiency
of controlling the concentration of solid particles in the mine atmosphere and
dust deposits is an urgent scientific and technical task. In doing so, the use
of modern digital technologies within the framework of the industry 4.0 concept
makes it possible to develop approaches that can significantly improve the
quality of monitoring the state of the mine atmosphere at coal mining
enterprises. This article provides a theoretical basis and test results for a
system for continuous automatic monitoring of dust concentration in a mine
atmosphere as the component of the multifunctional coal mine safety system. It
is shown that monitoring the state of mine workings aerological safety can be
carried out in real time through the system of the new generation using
artificial intelligence. The ability of the proposed system to measure basic
physical parameters affecting dust deposition (disperse composition, air
humidity, dust concentration and air flow velocity) is noted.
