No industrial sector is as highly regulated as the nuclear sector in terms of the mission-critical safety systems required to maintain operations. Here Gary Bradshaw, director of remote monitoring specialist Omniflex, discusses how nuclear plant managers can implement cost-effective, flexible radiation monitoring systems to comply with increasing data acquisition needs.

Traditionally, PC-based SCADA systems were the only tool in the instrumentation and control engineer’s toolbox for plant process visualisation and control applications. This led to many facilities implementing SCADA systems simply because there were no available alternatives.

Almost 150 languages are derived from Latin. But despite similarities in form, differences in letter combination mean this isn't sufficient to enable interlanguage comprehension. The same goes for processing plants; converting signals generated in the plant into an understandable form for control systems is a challenge. The answer? Signal conditioning.

If an alarm annunciator sounds the alert in a facility and nobody is around to hear it then it might as well not make a sound, because nobody can act on the alert. This could have disastrous consequences in high-stakes environments like those typically found in the nuclear, chemical processing or oil and gas industries.

Why the nuclear sector should adopt plug-and-play wireless technology.

Taking on the challenge of unmonitored concrete assets.

Omniflex teams up with software development specialist, Cortech to provide fully integrated all-in-one solutions.