DEVELOPMENT OF A FACILITY MONITORING TESTBED

Conference · Fri Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 2001

OSTI ID:783355

MIELKE, A M; BOYLE, C M

The Advanced Surveillance Technology (AST) project at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), funded by the Nonproliferation Research and Engineering Group (NN-20) of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), is fielding a facility monitoring application testbed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory-Pulsed Field Laboratory (NHMFL-PFL). This application is designed to utilize continuous remote monitoring technology to provide an additional layer of personnel safety assurance and equipment fault prediction capability in the laboratory. Various off-the-shelf surveillance sensor technologies are evaluated. In this testbed environment, several of the deployed monitoring sensors have detected transient precursor equipment-fault events. Additionally the prototype remote monitoring system employs specialized video state recognition software to determine whether the operations occurring within the facility are acceptable, given the observed equipment status. By integrating the Guardian reasoning system developed at LANL, anomalous facility events trigger alarms signaling personnel to the likelihood of an equipment failure or unsafe operation.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 783355
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-01-3569
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
FORECASTING
LANL
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MONITORING
PERSONNEL
PRECURSOR
SAFETY
SECURITY
TRANSIENTS