Optimizing Emergency Response with Connected and Situationally Aware Instrumentation

1. Optimizing Emergency Response with Connected and Situationally Aware Instrumentation Vince MazurPresident/CEOMazur Instruments

2. Agenda • 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

3. Mazur Instruments • Key Platform Capabilities • LND Pancake (7317) or End-Window (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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Some Situational Awareness Factors • Who • User • Affiliation • What • Measurement • Units • Instrument Type • Instrument Health • Environmental Conditions • Calibration Date • Where • GPS Coordinates • Bar Code Location

7. 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

8. 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 2009-2011 to update • Released as an IEC Standard 62755 • ANSI/IEEE N42.42-2011 has been approved and is in the final publication process

9. N42-2011 Personal Radiation Detector

10. 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

11. 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”