Optimizing Emergency Response
with Connected and Situationally
Aware Instrumentation
Vince Mazur
President/CEO
Mazur Instruments
2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
September 24-26, 2012, Los Alamos, NM
Agenda
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Mazur Instruments – An Introduction
The 9/11 Attacks and Interoperability
Today’s “Islands” of Nuclear Instrumentation
Some Situational Awareness Factors
Introduction to the GNDA
PRM Platform Support for Connectivity
Closing
2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
September 24-26, 2012, Los Alamos, NM
Mazur Instruments
• Key Platform Capabilities
– LND Pancake (7317) or EndWindow (712) GMT
– Among industry’s longest battery
life (3.22 yr / 2.3 yr)
– User-configurable units, A/V, etc.
– USB PC/Mac interface
– Measurement statistics
– Backlit LCD with English and
Japanese menus
– Internal data logging and simple
calibration
– Lightweight, rugged and weather
resistant
– Designed and made in the USA
2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
September 24-26, 2012, Los Alamos, NM
Communications During 911 Attacks
• Lives were lost because radios were
not interoperable across EMS, fire,
police and government resources.
Did you know that the police, EMS teams, and
firefighters sometimes have to juggle as
many as five different radios because each
agency communicates on different systems?
When They Can't Talk, Lives are Lost
What Public Officials Need to Know About Interoperability
University of Denver
National Law Enforcement & Corrections
Technology Center — Rocky Mountain Region
2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
September 24-26, 2012, Los Alamos, NM
Radiation Equipment: Installed Base
• “Islands of Instrumentation”
Generally Lacking:
– Interoperability / Connectivity
– Situational Data (Who, What,
Where, etc.)
– Common Data Format
• Primarily Proprietary
• Similar to pre-PC computing
era
2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
September 24-26, 2012, Los Alamos, NM
Some Situational Awareness Factors
• Who
– User
– Affiliation
• What
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Measurement
Units
Instrument Type
Instrument Health
Environmental Conditions
Calibration Date
• Where
– GPS Coordinates
– Bar Code Location
2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
September 24-26, 2012, Los Alamos, NM
What is the GNDA?
The overall mission of the
GNDA is to use an integrated
system of radiation detection
equipment and interdiction
activities to combat nuclear
smuggling in foreign countries,
at the U.S. border, and inside
the United States.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011, Statement of David C. Maurer, Director, Homeland Security
and Justice, and Gene Aloise, Director, Natural Resources and Environment
Testimony, Before the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection,
and Security Technologies, Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of
Representatives
2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
September 24-26, 2012, Los Alamos, NM
Interoperability Standards
• N42.42 –Radiation Data Format Standard
• Originally published 2006 (started 2004)
• Defines XML formatted output of radiation
detection instruments
• DNDO worked with the ANSI committee 20092011 to update
• Released as an IEC Standard 62755
• ANSI/IEEE N42.42-2011 has been approved
and is in the final publication process
2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
September 24-26, 2012, Los Alamos, NM
N42-2011 Personal Radiation Detector
2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
September 24-26, 2012, Los Alamos, NM
Mazur PRM Data Connectivity
• USB serial port output string in
CSV
• Internal Logging and/or output
every minute
• Fundamental interface upward
capable with N42.42 and a variety
of web feeds
• CSV data ubiquitous format for
database and analysis tools
2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
September 24-26, 2012, Los Alamos, NM
Summary
• Leveraging GNDA best practices and
interoperability can improve nuclear emergency
response at all levels
• GNDA compliant equipment can enable “If you
see something, say something” at local levels.
• Equipment manufacturer’s support of open
standards will facilitate a “web of situationally
aware instrumentation”
2012 Health Physics Instrumentation Committee Meeting
September 24-26, 2012, Los Alamos, NM