Abstract: In light of the need of underground personal and equipment localization and the difficult rescue in underground mine accidents, the paper makes a systematic analysis and study of the current personal localization techniques for underground mines, presents the personal localization systems for underground mines based on RFID, ZigBee, WIFI and UWB technologies, and proposes the method using wireless localization technology to realize the underground personal localization and its development orientation.

Key words: Personnel localization, Radio Frequency Identification, ZigBee, Wireless Fidelity, Ultra-wide bandwidth