Knowledge Hub · RMS Server
Six area monitors and four paper logs —or one console.
A modern cyclotron / PET / theranostic facility runs ten to thirty radiation channels. Without central aggregation, every channel is its own paper trail; inspection day means assembling a stack of printouts and trying to align timestamps across them. With an RMS server, the radiation-safety dossier is already built — every event correlated, every alarm acknowledgement timestamped, every archive query a few clicks deep.
Why this matters
Six things RMS aggregation delivers, explained simply
Site-wide correlation
One screen, every channel — events become evidence
Without a central server, every area monitor produces its own local trace; correlating a vault-side neutron rise with a stack-monitor reading means walking two corridors and reading two charts. The RMS server puts every channel on one screen. When an event happens — a high-activity dispensing run, an HVAC anomaly, an unscheduled vault entry — the radiation-safety officer correlates the timeline directly instead of reconstructing it from disconnected logs.
Based on: IAEA Safety Reports Series 47 — Particle Accelerator Facilities.
Read source ↗Modular architecture
Scales from one PET cluster to a multi-vault facility
A first-year PET centre may have three area monitors and one contamination frisker — the RMS server runs that cluster fine. Year three the centre adds a second cyclotron and a theranostic ward. Year five it federates with a sister site for centralised radiation-safety oversight. The same architecture scales across that growth — modular software, federated server design, RDU-02 cluster aggregation between field detectors and the central hub.
Based on: Manufacturer product page — architecture section.
Read source ↗Archive trending
The AERB-inspection-ready dose-rate record
AERB inspection looks for documented dose-rate history across the inspection window — not just current readings. Without a central archive, the radiation-safety officer reactively compiles printouts when the inspector arrives. With the RMS archive, the data has been collecting continuously; the export is the inspection record. The narrative shifts from "what happened on the day" to "what happened across the year".
Based on: AERB Atomic Energy (Radiation Protection) Rules 2004; AERB inspection framework.
Read source ↗Alarm management
Escalation logic + acknowledgement audit trail
Each channel carries per-channel alarm thresholds; alarms feed an escalation chain (operator → radiopharmacist → RSO → emergency response) with acknowledgement at each tier logged with timestamp and identity. The audit trail is what an AERB inspector or an internal-incident reviewer reads after a contamination event — it answers who knew, when, and what they did.
Based on: IAEA Safety Standards Series GSR Part 3 — Radiation Protection and Safety of Radiation Sources.
Read source ↗Federated multi-site design
One radiation-safety officer, multiple PET centres
A hospital network with multiple PET centres or theranostic wards can run one RMS architecture across sites — site-local servers federate to a central administration console. The network-level radiation-safety officer monitors every site from one console; site-specific tracking happens on the local servers. Useful for the multi-hospital theranostic networks emerging across Indian metros.
Based on: Saxsons multi-site architecture framing; consistent with manufacturer modular-architecture documentation.
Read source ↗Heterogeneous monitor compatibility
Same server, every monitor type the site deploys
A theranostic-and-PET centre deploys area gamma (AGM-03), neutron (MDN-01), hand-foot contamination (HF-4), stack / effluent (PET-01), environmental, air and liquid monitors. The RMS server connects to the full fleet — directly via LAN / RS-485, or via RDU-02 cluster aggregators. The site does not need separate software stacks per monitor family.
Based on: Manufacturer product page — connectivity section.
Read source ↗Regulatory + standards references
IAEA and AERB documents that frame radiation-monitoring requirements at licensed facilities.
IAEA GSR Part 3 — Radiation Protection and Safety of Radiation Sources
IAEA safety-standards framework underpinning radiation-monitoring requirements at licensed facilities.
IAEA Safety Reports Series 47 — Particle Accelerator Facilities
IAEA framing for radiation monitoring at medical cyclotron and accelerator facilities.
AERB Atomic Energy (Radiation Protection) Rules 2004
Indian regulatory framework for radiation monitoring, facility licensing and inspection.