What is GammaTRACER?

is a new concept in radiation monitoring, designed and manufactured by Saphymo GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany.
Until now two types of system have been used for long term environmental surveillance. Both have advantages and disadvantages:

• on-line measurement networks represent a relatively significant investment in setting up a fixed infrastructure (mains power, modem or radio communications, installation costs, etc). However, the user has the benefit of continuous on-line information and, in some cases an automatic alarm for emergency situations;
• passive integrating TLD dosimeters are flexible, easy to install and, above all, cheap but can not provide information on variations in the radiation level over time or minimum / maximum values because they integrate the dose rate.

GammaTRACER offers the best features of both systems: time-correlated dose rate information at an affordable cost and with a high degree of flexibility to meet customers' different applications.

The GammaTRACER System

The basic system is very simple:

• one or more GammaTRACER probe units
• an infra-red transceiver
• GammaVIEW software.

You also need a suitable structure to which to attach your probe(s) and a suitable PC on which to run the software (eg any PC-compatible laptop).