Integrated System for Wireless Radiation Detection and Tracking

This paper reports on an integrated system of wirelessly linked radiation detectors. A small radiation detector is combined with a pulse counting circuit to record radiation pulses in the area of the detector. Multiple sensors are mesh networked together using wireless radios. Mesh networking allows for a large network of battery powered nodes with only one receiving hub. Radiation data is communicated to a central location where it is compared to the location of the node and its relative position to the other nodes. This information is used to locate and track a radiation source.