Year
2004
Abstract
This paper will discuss some of the advances in the Unattended and Remote Monitoring (UNARM) equipment and system that have resulted from safeguards activity at facilities in the former Soviet Union, and other monitoring work closer to home. The particular requirements of these installations have resulted in development of modular, flexible, autonomous instruments that can be combined with other system components to produce monitoring systems that are easy to field, and can be readily configured to handle a variety of circumstances at a particular site. System components include instruments, networking equipment, and software developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software that has been integrated into the system. System components will be described in the context of the situations that gave impetus to their development, and concrete examples of operation will be provided.