has more than 24 years of expertise creating affordable custom software solutions improving operational procedures and safety conditions for nuclear plants, industrial facilities and educational institutions. Our user friendly product line originated with a desire to improve the way our clients perform.

 

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Client Description
A multi-state energy company in the Eastern United States chooses S&W Technologies to meet its needs for remote radiation monitoring technology, safety standards compliance and hazardous exposure monitoring.

Profile

This large energy company has operations from the Carolinas through Florida. It operates four nuclear power stations across its fleet. The company is also planning an expansion of its nuclear fleet to meet the ever increasing energy demands in its service region.

Customer Challenges

  • Inability to collect and consolidate real-time measurements of radiation and airborne contamination levels due to the mix of hardware from various manufacturers
  • Inability to integrate a real-time data collection and monitoring system with its in-house developed access control system so that personnel logins and logouts would be processed automatically
  • Inability to process large data volumes generated from over 300 area monitors and 400 + workers wearing electronic dosimeters during outages
  • Inability to filter millions of data points and only capture those of interest in order to minimize data storage and maximize data retrieval efficiency
  • Inability to effectively communicate current radiological conditions to plant staff.
Benefits and Key Differentiators

With the use of GEDDS radiation monitoring software, the customer can now interface with and simultaneously collect data from all manufacturers' radiological collection devices.

  • GEDDS enabled the customer to connect to their in-house developed access control system to provide automatic login and logout updates to GEDDS.
  • GEDDS is built with robust Java technology enabling the system to handle the customer's workload during outage and non-outage periods.
  • GEDDS provides advanced data filtering capabilities to achieve the data storage efficiency desired by the customer
  • GEDDS feeds real-time data to web interface, the VSDS survey system and the Site-Wise picture cataloging system enabling effective communication of radiological conditions to plant staff
FAQ
  • Provides an efficient, easy to use and reliable system for the radiation protection staff to monitor and control worker's exposure
  • Supports plant staff in the attainment of their ALARA goals by reducing dose
  • Reduces overall staff radiation exposure saving tens of thousands of dollars each year