Network for environmental monitoring in Croatia

• Customer: Central Finance and Contracting Agency, Ulica grada Vukovara 284, objekt C, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
• Location: Croatia
• User LOT1: State Office for Radiological and Nuclear Safety, Zagreb, Croatia, Sanja Krca
• User LOT3: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, Delko Barisic
• Realization period: 06/2014 – 09/2014

Detailed description of supply:
Design, manufacture, supply, delivery, assembly, installation, testing, training and after-sales services of gamma dose rate monitoring devices – 8 autonomous stations with data logger and monitoring centre with hardware and software for automatic data management. The delivery of alpha spectrometer with 6 measuring chambers for the measurement of low activities, including the control and evaluation software GAMWIN was included.

Using solar energy (FV panel + battery) for operation. Capacity of batteries at min. 140 hours of operation. Wireless (GPRS) data transmission to the monitoring center was provided. The own probes NUVIA type NuEM EGM were used. Delivery of Monitoring Centre (2 servers in the cluster, database - replication, information system IMS / RAMON, data export to a database EURDEP - EU), backup GPRS connection, backup devices (LOT1).

Delivery of alpha spectrometer – ORTEC Alpha Enssemble including the control and evaluation software GAMWIN (LOT3).

The equipment and related systems are designated for on- and off-line monitoring of the radioactivity and nuclear pollution in the environment of the Republic of Croatia (comply with the Article 35 of the Euratom Treaty).

Scope of supply:

• 8 Gamma dose rate stations (fully autonomous systems) for dose rate measurement on the Croatia territory
• Monitoring Centre includes HW and central data management system RAMON
• Data network via 3G/GPRS
• Delivery of alpha spectrometer – ORTEC Alpha Enssemble with 6 measuring chambers for the measurement of low activities, including the control and evaluation software GAMWIN