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SmartVault - Water Intrusion Monitoring System
SmartVauIt is designed to provide ongoing monitoring of cable vaults in nuclear power plants to detect water intrusion. These vaults can become flooded causing the power cables in the vaults to degrade over time. In turn, cable failures can lead to subsequent reliability issues or regulatory actions.
Vault Access and the SmartVault Installation
Access to enable inspection of cable vaults is difficult and expensive. Excessive lid weight and structural requirements to withstand tornadoes and other environmental extremes require planning and coordination.
The SmartVault System
SmartVault is a monitoring system that eliminates the necessity for time consuming visual vault inspection by providing users with desktop access to the water level conditions in the vault.
Monitoring is done by remote field units (RFU) located at each site. Each RFU takes a measurement every 60 minutes. Data is also stored every 60 minutes. This level data is transmitted once every six hours via the Iridium satellite system and transferred to the SmartVault server. Users access all site information through their dedicated website. The server is secure using 2048-bit encryption, compliant with federal standards.