Research on Early Warning and NB-IoT Real-time Monitoring System for Radiation Source Shedding of Gamma Flaw Detection Machine

TL;DR

This paper presents an integrated NB-IoT based real-time monitoring system for gamma radiation sources, enabling timely detection, location, and alarm of radiation source shedding to prevent accidents.

Contribution

It introduces a novel embedded system with NB-IoT communication for real-time remote monitoring and safety management of gamma radiation sources in flaw detection machines.

Findings

Effective real-time warning and remote alarm achieved.

Successful detection and localization of radiation source shedding.

Enhanced safety management for gamma radiation sources.

Abstract

The system takes the embedded system single chip as the core, and organizes the gamma ray induction module, keying switch, radiation source braid locking mechanism, on-site alarm equipment, NB-IoT communication module, GPS positioning system and other related equipment to realize real-time operators warning and remote alarming to the monitoring platform. Thus, timely management of the fallen radiation source can be realized. What's more, position of radiation source braid is monitored by radiation source braid locking mechanism, gamma-ray induction module and keying switch. This idea solves the bottleneck problem of difficulty in transmitting real-time remote monitoring signal by NB-IoT technology. Single-chip microcontroller is innovatively embedded around the radiation source to monitor whether the source falls off. As a result, when part or all of the source braid are not returned to the storage location of the flaw detector, the gamma ray induction module, keying switch, and radiation source braid locking mechanism remind the operator of the dangerous situation. At the same time, NB-IoT transmission system alarms companies and regulators of safety risks. In conclusion, radiation source can be found timely when it falls off, to avoid radiation accident. Two bottlenecks related to installing GPS positioning system can be solved, that the GPS positioning system is installed on the flaw detector, and the radioactive source is still unable to be controlled, and that the GPS positioning system requires power to transmit the signal back to the regulatory platform or to the platform of the flaw detection enterprise. This article's ideas can solve this problem through the advantages of NB-IoT.