Argonne, Evigia finalizes deal for RFID sensor technology
19 July, 2012
category: RFID
Evigia Systems and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have finalized a licensing agreement under which Argonne’s patented, application-specific RFID sensor/seal technology and custom-developed ARG-US software suite will be further developed and marketed by Evigia as a comprehensive nuclear and hazardous material handling solution.
The system, developed by Evigia and Argonne, enables materials management facilities to monitor, track and secure nuclear material in transportation and storage operations, combining regulatory authority certified packages with RFID sensor e-seals, secure wireless interrogators and the ARG-US software suite.
Argonne’s ARG-US tags are based on Evigia’s EV3 wireless sensor platform and offer real-time, continuous monitoring of tampering and seal breakage, physical shock, temperature/humidity, radiation level, battery status, and identification, alarm and detailed data logging functions.
ARG-US RFID is being put to the test, used to monitor environmental conditions on radioactive material transportation packages in interim storage conditions, enabling the DOE to extend the package seal life and reduce the maintenance costs and worker dose for performing the annual seal replacement and leak testing on these packages.