Year
2003
Abstract
The monitoring system for collecting, archiving and displaying real-time sensor information has been in operation for more than a year at the Russian Demonstration Storage Facility at VNIIEF. This paper gives a summary of the operational performance of the system and follow-on developments to the software over the last year. Operational parameters discussed are system reliability, maintainability, flexibility and problems encountered. The follow-on developments are upgrades to the system intended to address observed limitations. These upgrades increase the operational lifetime of the system between maintenance, provide automatic analysis of the data obtained from the sensors, extend the data gathering and archiving capabilities, and provide for the monitoring of new equipment (i.e. radiation pedestrian portal, bar-code reader on containers, seals with a radio-frequency adapter). Additional software upgrades enhance the current features including multiple facility monitoring and ranking of access to the software program, configuration, and features. The testing for these upgrades will be integrated with a new collaborative project identified as the Facility-to-Facility (F2F) “Side-by-Side” test. This project calls for a side-by-side test of US-developed and RF-developed monitoring systems in a common demonstration storage facility.