Abstract: The existing mine wind speed sensor arrangement methods have problems as follows. The determined sensor branch cannot measure the wind speed accurately because the wind speed is smaller than the sensor start wind speed. Most of the methods need to be listed multiple matrices and the calculation is complicated. Moreover, the sensor positions selected by some methods are unreasonable. In order to achieve mine full coverage air volume monitoring without blind area, and to monitor the air volume variation in all roadways with the minimum number of wind speed sensors, the coverage of sensor branches is analyzed by using the directed path matrix, and the optimal arrangement of wind speed sensors based on the directed path matrix method is proposed. This method determines the unique directed path matrix based on the wind flow direction of the ventilation network diagram, determines the coverage of the branches, and selects the branch with the largest coverage to determine the position of the wind speed sensor. The results show that the optimal arrangement of wind speed sensors based on directed path matrix method can achieve mine full coverage air volume monitoring without blind area, and the number of sensors is less than or equal to the number of independent directed paths. Calculation analysis shows that when sensors are arranged according to this method, there is a measurement error of 6% in one sensor branch, the lowest impact on the ventilation network is 0.52, and the lowest impact on other branches is 0. Moreover, the calculation error decreases as the number of sensors increases. If the impact of sensor branch error on the ventilation network is controlled to be less than 1, more than 12 wind speed sensors should be arranged.