It is part of the suite of gas interpretation software that allows a mine to continuously monitor gases within a mine.

The complete rewrite of Segas Professional provides enhanced interpretative tools and combines this with a user-friendly interface. The software allows data collected from a Safegas gas monitoring system to be immediately assessed for potential problems. The powerful data importation function allows different data formats to be easily converted to the Segas format.

Segas Professional can automatically calculate and display Coward triangles and Ellicott Diagrams. Coupled with the powerful ability for data trending, Segas Professional aims to provide the user with rapid and readily accessible gas interpretive information.

Segas Professional has been developed to overcome several of the limitations of the existing methods for displaying the explosibility of gas mixtures.

Previously, trending of the Coward Triangle has been difficult because the triangle’s shape and dimensions change for each sample. Segas Professional provides a solution to this problem by showing an animation of each successive sample. Hence, while the shape and dimensions may change slightly for each sample, the explosiveness of the samples are trended allowing any change in the mine atmosphere to be clearly apparent.

While it is possible to display an Ellicott trend for a location, it has been difficult to show the time when the samples were collected. Segas Professional overcomes this issue by changing the colour of the samples that fit within a specified time period, eg if a single day's samples were to be trended on an Ellicott diagram then the day would be divided into four six-hour units and each unit’s samples would be allocated a different colour.

Segas Professional also allows the trending of multiple locations on an Ellicott Diagram. Creating multi-location Ellicott trends could be very useful when monitoring the sealing process of longwall blocks.

The typical gas concentration or ratio vs time graph functionality has been extended to allow multi locations and multi gases or ratios at one time. For example it is possible for two locations to plot CO, CH4, CO Make and Grahams ratio over a time period of a week.

Choosing the best method to display the information can be daunting to a new user so Segas Professional has included a simple query system. Through an intuitive user interface, the selection of the time range, series and other parameters can be easily selected and based on this, the required information is returned from the Segas file.

Now the user can select to view the information as a Coward Triangle, Ellicott Diagram, Ellicott Trend, Time Graph or as a Report. The user can quickly switch from one “view” to another, without having to rerun their query, allowing the best view for that particular situation. This approach allows a single query to be viewed in over five ways quickly and with a minimum of effort.

Segas Professional empowers the user to analyse a gas mixture in a variety of ways and with greater interpretative depth. At the same time the user interface has been enhanced and simplified.