Virtual instrumentation on mobile devices for deployment in nuclear installations.

• Autor(a) principal: FARIAS, Marcos Santana
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: SANTOS, Isaac José Antonio Luquetti dos, JESUS, Miller F. de, SANT'ANNA, Claudio Reis de, SZABÓ, Andre Pedro, CARVALHO, Paulo Victor Rodrigues de, SEINS, [e-mail], http://lattes.cnpq.br/0603232863410202
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do IEN
• Texto Completo: http://carpedien.ien.gov.br:8080/handle/ien/1135
• topic: Desenvolvimento de Tecnologia para Sistemas Complexos Engenharia e Tecnologia de Reatores Nucleares; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTROL; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MONITORING

The virtual instrumentation can be defined as a layer of software and hardware, added to a general purpose computer, so that users can interact with the computer in the same way that they interacted with traditional electronic instruments such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters and signal generators, and may add other functions defined by software. The virtual instrumentation gets a new integration environment, little explored yet, with the great growth that occurred in the mobile devices area. Nowadays it is possible to take measurements in more places by combining mobile devices with data acquisition hardware to create extremely portable and interconnected measurement systems. This paper shows the development of software and hardware that make possible the use of instrumentation on mobile devices for monitoring nuclear installations. It's presented the hardware and the application software for data acquisition of radiation monitors, developed to iOS devices. It's also shown the possibilities of hardware and software to develop near real-time data transfer to and from the field in nuclear installations, with benefits in efficiency, safety and productivity.