Evigia to Further Develop Argonne's RFID Sensor Technology

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Evigia Systems have finalized an agreement for application-specific radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensor/seal technology and custom-developed ARG-US software suite. Argonne and Evigia have partnered to develop the system, which is designed to serve as a hazardous and nuclear material handling solution.

The licensing agreement will enable the transfer of the technology to the marketplace due to its potential for a wide range of applications. Argonne's ARG-US technology and the Evigia EV-3 platform will together offer a wireless sensing solution that can be quickly deployed for operations involving storage and transportation of nuclear material.

The system consists of secure wireless interrogators, RFID sensor e-seals and regulatory-authority certified packages which allow materials management facilities to monitor, secure and track nuclear material during their storage and transportation.

In these systems, battery-powered RFID tags which consist of onboard memory, ISO18000-7-based secure wireless communications and a complete range of sensors are attached to drum-type packages. Evigia's EV3 wireless sensor platform forms the basis for Argonne's ARG-US tags, which provide a range of functions including physical shock, continuous monitoring of seal breakage and tampering, radiation level, identification, temperature, humidity and the battery status, in real-time.

The ARG US RFID system enables near-real-time monitoring and tracking of packages during storage and in transit. It functions along with control computers, a database, cellular and satellite-based communications and the interrogators along with the ARG-US RFID tags.

The director of the Office of Packaging and Transportation Packaging Certification Program, Stephen O'Connor, stated that the system will lead to worker dose reductions and cost savings. The ARG-US RFIDs have demonstrated their benefits for environmental monitoring of interim storage and transportation packages for radioactive materials, he said.

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