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FRIDAY - JULY 20, 2007 - ISSUE NO. 270

Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging,

What would you say if I told you that someone has invented a new pager with the following features?

  • It is designed to be worn like an ID badge.
  • It emits an audio alert that is louder than a typical pager.
  • It vibrates.
  • An LED flashes.
  • An LCD display provides the wearer with instructions — self-checking or “intelligence” is embedded in the device for enhanced reliability, giving the user information on battery usage and other signals.
  • It includes RFID technology for accountability (ingress and egress).
  • The radio is very efficient, with extended battery life to about a year with off-the-shelf batteries from places like Wal-Mart.
  • A commercial version could be the size of a car-key fob and easily worn over an extended time by anyone.

No way! Not in today's market. No one would develop a device like that unless there was a great need, would they?

The correct answers are: wrong, wrong, and right — there is a great need!

THE NEW INVENTION
First of all, they don't call it a pager. It is called a “Personal Annunciation Device (PAD) — a miniature radio frequency receiver that has concurrent alarms (vibrations, light, sound) when activated.”

It is basically an emergency pager that meets nuclear-grade emergency evacuation requirements — a souped up micro pager, with a lot of “extras” to meet the strict requirements of a nuclear facility.

It was developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for use by people working in “high-consequence environments.” Where and what are high-consequence environments? This is “government talk” for places where people work and are in BIG TROUBLE if anything goes wrong. They call this potential BIG TROUBLE a “criticality accident.” Wikipedia defines this as:

A criticality accident (also sometimes referred to as an “excursion” or “power excursion”) occurs when a nuclear chain reaction is accidentally allowed to occur in fissile material, such as enriched uranium or plutonium. This releases neutron radiation which is highly dangerous to surrounding personnel and which causes induced radioactivity in the surroundings.

I am very happy that some of the top scientists in this country have recognized that the best way to alert several thousand people in just a few seconds is to use the one-message-transmitted-to-many-people-simultaneously feature of paging technology. We know it as “group call.”

I have prepared a major report for you this week about the PAD. The first part is an advanced copy of a press release that I received on Tuesday of this week. The other — following reports — are from Internet searches and include information on the project going back a couple of years. I have been helping the project a little, with some occasional advice, over the last 2½ years. They asked me not to report on the device until now. One exciting fact is that this technology is being patented and made available for licensing — for commercial use under the NNSA's Technology Transfer program.

As a former sales and marketing manager this makes my head buzz with the possibilities of peddling this device to every nuclear, chemical, biological, or other type of facility — all around the world — where rapid alarm notification is required.

As a former engineering manager, it makes my head buzz with the possibilities of manufacturing a device that has already been designed and tested by some of our country's top scientists (with a big R&D budget, I am sure). I think this is at least worth consideration by anyone involved in the sales, marketing, or manufacturing of paging and/or wireless messaging devices. The potential is enormous if you include homeland security, school safety, tsunami warnings, hazardous material controls, and . . . and . . . and, well you know. . .

Now on to more news and views.

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AAPC to send representatives to the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International (APCO) Convention in August.

APCO is the world’s largest organization dedicated to public safety communications, their members consist of emergency call centers, law enforcement agencies, emergency medical services, fire departments, forestry services, and others who work with communications systems that safeguard the world’s citizens.  AAPC will be sharing a booth with one of our vendor members, Critical Response Systems to help promote the benefits of utilizing paging technology to this targeted audience. 

AAPC working with you to advance your business and the paging industry!

 

Thanks to our Gold Vendor member!

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Thanks to our Silver Vendor Members!
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Thanks to our Bronze Member Vendors!
 
AAPC Executive Director
441 N. Crestwood Drive
Wilmington, NC 28405
Tel: 866-301-2272
E-mail: info@pagingcarriers.org
Web: www.pagingcarriers.org
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2154 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007-2280
Tel: 202-223-3772
Fax: 202-315-3587

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FEATURED ADVERTISERS SUPPORTING THE NEWSLETTER

Advertiser Index

AAPC—American Association of Paging Carriers   Nighthawk Systems, Inc.
Advanced RF Communications   Northeast Paging
AnswerNet Network   
ATCOM Wireless   Outr.net
Ayrewave Corporation   Port City Communications
CVC Paging   Preferred Wireless
Daviscomms USA   Prism Paging
EMMA—European Mobile Messaging Association   Product Support Services
Global Fax Network Services   Ron Mercer
GTES LLC   Swissphone
Hark Systems   Texas Association of Paging Services
Heartland Communications   TH Communications
HMCE, Inc.   UCOM Paging
InfoRad, Inc.     Unication USA
Ira Wiesenfeld   United Communications Corp.
Minilec Service, Inc.   WiPath Communications
   Zetron Inc.

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Are you a paging professional who knows how to grow and run a paging business? We are looking for an entrepreneurial partner to grow our small paging business with coverage in Montana and Wyoming. The system is currently serving customers for another business we own and has plenty of capacity to grow. Billing and customer service is also in place. We are looking for someone with the energy and know how to build this rural paging business in exchange for a share of the profits and/or an ownership share of the network.

If you live in that part of the country or you are willing to move there and you are interested in this kind of challenge, please contact us at Paging Network Operator c/o AnswerNet Network, 345 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 or by e-mail at: leslie.dennis@answernet.com.

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Nighthawk Systems and SkyTel Join Forces

— Nighthawk Devices to Operate on SkyTel Two-Way Network —

— Collaborative Marketing Agreement —

July 18, 2007 07:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

SAN ANTONIO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nighthawk Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:NIHK) and SkyTel, a division of Bell Industries, Inc. (AMEX:BI) today announced that they have agreed to join forces to provide two-way telemetry solutions to enterprise customers utilizing the SkyTel Wireless Network. SkyTel is a leading provider of wireless messaging and telemetry services to Fortune 1000 and government customers throughout the United States. Network Reliability and its superior customer service are at the heart of SkyTel’s ability to serve its customers. Nighthawk Systems is a leading provider of intelligent wireless power management and emergency notification solutions.

Under the agreement, both Nighthawk and SkyTel can bundle each other’s services and products into their own telemetry product and service offerings. Nighthawk has recently announced its intention to market a hosted telemetry solution platform this year that will enable its customers to better manage and utilize Nighthawk control devices. This agreement and the hosted software platform will allow Nighthawk to offer fully automated, two-way telemetry solutions utilizing the SkyTel Wireless Network. SkyTel will add Nighthawk products to its offerings in an effort to further expand its own telemetry service offerings. Together, the companies will seek collaborative marketing opportunities for their bundled offerings.

H. Douglas Saathoff, Nighthawk’s CEO, commented, “I’m extremely excited about this relationship with SkyTel, which has a long history of providing telemetry services. It gives Nighthawk a reliable, nationwide wireless network on which it can seamlessly offer enhanced, two-way telemetry products and services. We now have the opportunity to enhance our traditional control products with monitoring and data-delivery capabilities, which translates into additional revenue-generating opportunities. I look forward to a long, mutually-beneficial relationship with SkyTel.”

Jim Myers, President of SkyTel states, “Through our agreement with Nighthawk, SkyTel is reinforcing its ongoing commitment to the telemetry industry by supporting the growing demand for networks to provide command and control functions for the energy management industry.”

SkyTel has been a wireless data industry leader for over two decades. SkyTel 2-Way technology, developed in partnership with Motorola, has been successfully delivering data to millions of customers. The fully redundant SkyTel nationwide network is mature, stable and extremely reliable, without the dropped connections and downtime experienced with competitors’ network technologies – an important distinction when you are basing your business decisions on the data provided over the Network.”

About Nighthawk Systems, Inc.
Nighthawk is a leading provider of intelligent wireless power control products that enable simultaneous activation or de-activation of multiple assets or systems on demand. Nighthawk's installed customer base includes major electric utilities, internet service providers and fire departments in over 40 states. Nighthawk's products also enable custom message display, making them ideal for use in traffic control and emergency notification situations.

Individuals interested in Nighthawk Systems can sign up to receive email alerts by visiting the Company’s website at www.nighthawksystems.com.

About Bell Industries, Inc.
Bell Industries is comprised of three diversified operating units, Bell’s Technology Solutions business, SkyTel and its Recreational Products Group. The company’s Technology Solutions business offers a comprehensive portfolio of technology products and managed lifecycle services, including planning, product sourcing, deployment and disposal, and support services. SkyTel provides nationwide wireless services and support, including email, interactive two-way messaging, wireless telemetry services and traditional text and numeric paging. The Recreational Products Group distributes after-market parts and accessories primarily to the recreational vehicle and boating markets.

Individuals interested in learning more about SkyTel should visit the Company’s website at www.SkyTel.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this release, which are not historical facts, including statements about plans and expectations regarding business areas and opportunities, acceptance of new or existing businesses, capital resources and future business or financial results are "forward-looking" statements. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, customer acceptance of our products, our ability to raise capital to fund our operations, our ability to develop and protect proprietary technology, government regulation, competition in our industry, general economic conditions and other risk factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied in the forward-looking statements. Although we believe the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, they relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made, and our future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements may not meet these expectations. We do not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to conform these statements to actual results or to changes in our expectations, except as required by law.

Contacts:
Nighthawk Systems, Inc.
Doug Saathoff, 877-764-4484, Ext. 701
dsaathoff@nighthawksystems.com
or
Bell Industries, Inc.
Kevin Thimjon, 317-704-6000

Source: BusinessWire


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  • Supports over 1,000,000 subscribers.
  • Fully redundant design features RAID-1-mirrored, hot-removable disk drives.
  • Supports remote access to Windows®-based user-management software.
  • Supports E1 trunks, T1 trunks, analog trunks, and dial-up modems.
  • Includes extensive voice-messaging features.
  • Provides Ethernet interface for e-mail and paging over the Internet.
  • Provides an ideal replacement for Unipage or Glenayre™ systems.
  • When used with the Model 600/620 Wireless Data Manager, a simulcast network can be connected to the Model 2700 over Ethernet links.

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$500.00 FLAT RATE

TAPS—Texas Association of Paging Services is looking for partners on 152.480 MHz. Our association currently uses Echostar, formerly Spacecom, for distribution of our data and a large percentage of our members use the satellite to key their TXs. We have a CommOneSystems Gateway at the uplink in Chicago with a back-up running 24/7. Our paging coverage area on 152.480 MHz currently encompasses Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Kansas. The TAPS paging coverage is available to members of our Network on 152.480 MHz for $.005 a transmitter (per capcode per month), broken down by state or regions of states and members receive a credit towards their bill for each transmitter which they provide to our coverage. Members are able to use the satellite for their own use If you are on 152.480 MHz or just need a satellite for keying your own TXs on your frequency we have the solution for you.

TAPS will provide the gateways in Chicago, with Internet backbone and bandwidth on our satellite channel for $ 500.00 (for your system) a month.

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WiPath Consolidates its Emergency Alert Solutions Lineup

July 16, 2007

WiPath Communications has been involved in the development and provision of emergency alerting systems since well before they were called emergency alerting systems and because of the increased interest in these types of systems over the last few years has put together a range of solutions under this banner suitable for a wide variety of community and campus alerting requirements.

WiPath is involved in the provision of EAS systems for tsunami and extreme weather warning,  on-campus emergency notification and community alerting and works with a wide variety of emergency services and information systems providers to provide suitable solutions for each environment.

Just released is a range of text to voice solutions that integrate with its paging data receivers and IP based alarm concentrator products to provide the ability to input voice alerts into other systems such as public address and fire alarm systems in response to a text message. WiPath is currently working with a number of university and college campuses to implement these solutions to enable fast notification of emergency situations.

This range of solutions provides the flexibility to choose the delivery method whether it be wireless, internet, wide or local area network and also provides a variety of alerting methods.  On some campuses the voice to text solution is the primary alerting method whilst on others they will add or substitute small in-room, text only displays or larger LED signs for common areas and in the outdoors.  Some of these options are briefly described on the following webpage www.wipath.com/eas.html and we strongly encourage any enquiries from anyone interested in setting up a an emergency alerting system.

About WiPath

WiPath is a leader in the provision of intelligent solutions in both paging and mobile data with a wide range of innovative solutions including local and wide area paging solutions, mobile data terminals, dispatch and field service solutions, vehicle tracking and management.  WiPath specializes in providing both off-the-shelf and customized solutions to the paging and mobile communications industries. Website: www.wipath.com

WiPath’s ability to combine different technologies and networks in flexible, systems-based solutions using very cost effective equipment is what sets it apart from practically every other company in the industry.

George Rishfeld
Vice President  North America

Australia
WiPath Communications Pty Ltd (ABN: 86 093 464 496)
Postal: PO Box 6947 Silverwater, NSW 2128, Australia
Street: 44/8 Avenue of Americas
Newington, NSW 2127, Australia
P: +61-2-8004 0535  F:+61-2-9647 1559 E: info@wipath.com.au
New Zealand
WiPath Communications Ltd
Postal: PO Box 8798, Symonds St, Auckland 1150, NZ
Street: 3/2 Haultain St, Eden Tce.
Auckland, New Zealand
P: +64-9-302 1142  F:+64-9-302 1148 E: info@wipath.co.nz
USA
WiPath Communications LLC
4845 Dumbbarton Court
Cumming, GA 30040 USA
P: +1-805-907-6707
E: info@wipath.com

NEWS FLASH — SATELLITE FAILURES

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  • May 19, 1998—Galaxy 4 control processor causes loss of fixed orbit—TOTAL LOSS
  • September 19, 2003—Telstar 4 suffers loss of its primary power bus—TOTAL LOSS
  • March 17, 2004—PAS-6 suffers loss of power—TOTAL LOSS
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WiPath manufactures a wide range of highly unique and innovative hardware and software solutions in paging and mobile data for:

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4845 Dumbbarton Court
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Equipment For Sale
Miscellaneous:
2 Aluminum Equipment racks
1 Outdoor Motorola Cabinet (many others)
1 Outdoor Hennessey Cab w/AC
10 Glenayre PM-250C (NEW) Power Monitor Panels w/Alarms
85 Skydata 8466/8466A/8466B Receivers
13 RL-70 XC Midband Link Receivers
  Several New 900 MHz Antennas
Link Transmitters:
1 Glenayre QT6994, 150W, 900 MHz Link TX
3 Glenayre QT4201, 25W Midband Link TX
3 Glenayre Hot Standby Panels
3 Motorola 10W, 900 MHz Link TX (C35JZB6106)
2 Motorola 30W, Midband Link TX (C42JZB6106AC)
VHF Paging Transmitters
8 QT-100C, 100W VHF, TCC, RL70XC
2 Glenayre GL-T8311, 125W
3 Motorola PURC 5000, 350W, ACB
5 Motorola PURC 5000, 125W, TRC
UHF Paging Transmitters:
10 Glenayre GLT5340, 125W, DSP Exciter
10 Motorola PURC 5000, 110W, ACB
5 Motorola PURC 5000, 225W, ACB
900 MHz Paging Transmitters:
1 Glenayre GLT 8600, 500W
35 Glenayre GLT-8500, 250W, C2000, I20
10 Motorola PURC 5000, 300W, DRC (will part out)
6 Glenayre QT-7995, 250W (will part out)
GL3000 & Unipage Cards—Many misc. cards.
1 Complete GL3000L w/ T1s, 2.2G HD, LCC

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Bell Industries' Chief Executive Officer Resigns; Board Appoints Director as Interim CEO

July 13, 2007: 04:35 PM EST

INDIANAPOLIS, July 13, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — Bell Industries, Inc. (AMEX:BI) today announced that John A. Fellows has resigned as president and chief executive officer effective immediately. In accordance with his employment agreement, Fellows has also resigned as a director of the company.

Bell's board of directors, by unanimous vote of the independent directors, has appointed Clinton J. Coleman, currently a director of Bell, as interim president and chief executive officer. Coleman will serve as Bell's interim chief executive officer and principal executive officer until such time as the company completes its on-going search for a successor. The company will retain a search firm to assist in identifying qualified candidates.

Coleman is a vice president of Newcastle Capital Management, L.P., the general partner of Newcastle Partners, L.P. He also currently serves as a director of Fox & Hound Restaurant Group and was interim chief financial officer of Pizza Inn, Inc. from July 2006 to January 2007.

About Bell Industries, Inc.

Bell Industries is comprised of three diversified operating units, Bell Technology Solutions business, SkyTel and its Recreational Products Group. The company's Technology Solutions business offers a comprehensive portfolio of customizable and scalable technology solutions ranging from customer-relationship management (CRM) and managed technology services to reverse logistics and mobile/wireless solutions. SkyTel provides nationwide wireless data and messaging services, including email, interactive two-way messaging, wireless telemetry services and traditional text and numeric paging. Recreational Products Group is a wholesale distributor of after market parts and accessories for the recreational vehicles and other leisure-related vehicle market, including marine, snowmobile, cycle and ATV.

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Personal Annunciation Device (PAD)
To Receive R&D 100 Award


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 17, 2007
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Y-12 Receives Two R&D 100 Awards

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 17, 2007 — Engineers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 National Security Complex have won two R&D 100 Awards.

The awards are presented annually by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year’s most significant technological innovations. Y-12 received the 2007 awards for its Rapid Deployment Shelter System (RDSS) and Personal Annunciation Device (PAD).

“We are very honored by this national recognition of our engineering and design capability. It means a lot to have a project that demonstrates your capabilities and expertise chosen from among the cream of the crop for research and development,” said George Dials, president and general manager of BWXT Y-12, the company that manages Y-12 for the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Peter Angelo, Ph.D., who led the multi-disciplinary team that developed the PAD said, “This is a great accomplishment for Y-12. We’re not a research and development lab, so no one really thinks of us as researchers or developers, but Y-12 has cutting-edge engineering and technology capabilities.”

Since the awards program started in 1963, Y-12 has received 13 awards.

The RDSS was originally designed as a mobile surgical suite for the U.S. Army but with a few modifications and it could be turned into anything from a command and control center to a logistics or operations center.

Y-12’s Lee Bzorgi was the inventor of the RDSS.

“It is very exciting and gratifying to receive an R&D 100 Award. It took a lot of work. We could not have done it without Y-12’s great team of craftspeople and engineers,” Bzorgi said.

The 400-square-foot shelter can be easily set up in less than two minutes and offers substantial protection against small-arms, as well as nuclear, biological and chemical contamination, making it an ideal tool for many federal agencies, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Guard and Reserve units and homeland defense response teams.

Y-12’s additional 2007 winner, the PAD, may very well be the world’s smallest self-arming multiple-use accident notification device. The prototype of the non-nuclear based, radio frequency receiver is about the size of a small pager, but Angelo said it goes beyond existing technology by including radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for accountability. A commercial version of the PAD could be the size of a car key fob and easily worn by anyone over an extended time.

“This is the first time personal wireless technology has been integrated into a safety-related nuclear accident alert system,” said Angelo. “The PAD provides for a personal alert over a much wider area than portable detection devices.”

The PAD can be easily adapted for chemical, biological or any other hazard event where traditional notification means are not adequate and rapid alert and accountability is required.

While Angelo spearheaded the effort, he said it would not have been possible without the successful collaboration of talents from Y-12, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the NNSA’s Kansas City Plant. Y-12 conceived and led the effort, integrating the prototype into existing plant systems; ORNL provided a micropower radio; and Kansas City Plant was responsible for packaging the PAD receiver components.

 The R&D 100 Awards will be presented Oct. 18 in Chicago by R&D Magazine.

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R&D 100 Awards “The Oscars of Invention” — The Chicago Tribune

For 45 years, the prestigious R&D 100 Awards have been helping companies provide the important initial push a new product needs to compete successfully in the marketplace. The winning of an R&D 100 Award provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the product is one of the most innovative ideas of the year.

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Y-12 leads PAD prototype development

“Can you hear me now?” If this catchphrase weren't already taken, it would make the perfect slogan for the Personal Annunciation Device or PAD, a miniature, non-nuclear-based, radio frequency receiver prototyped in part by the Y-12 National Security Complex.

Y-12 is leading a team of three Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration sites to design, build and test the PAD, which will annunciate or notify its wearer of a criticality accident.

When activated, the PAD has concurrent alarms (vibrations, light, sound) and displays building information and alarm status. Self-checking or “intelligence” is embedded in the PAD for enhanced reliability, giving the user information on battery usage and signals. The first-of-its-kind device is smaller than a pager and uses commercially available parts.

“Way cool” is how Peter Angelo, principal investigator for the project, described the PAD. “The overarching technology is simple,” said Angelo, “but we’re applying it in a novel way to a high-consequence environment.”

The Innovation Group, Y-12’s highly creative think tank headed by Y-12 Senior Scientist Doug Craig, came up with the PAD idea in response to NNSA’s concerns regarding the use of personal radiation detection instruments as notification devices.


Y-12 PAD team members include Peter Angelo, Rich Bell, Tom Berg, Doug Craig, Mike Cruse, Paul DeMint, Kevin Finney, Dave Harvey, Earl Knoch, Don LaMaster, Gary Mason, George McPeters, John Miller, Tommy Rhea and Jim Younkin.

The group then handed off the concept to a Plant Directed Research, Development and Demonstration technical team. The team looked at the features of existing pagers and cellular phones, but no single technology met all of their requirements—to be secure and reliable, be small, require little human interface and most importantly, guarantee annunciation where audibility is required.

The team further refined the concept and involved telecommunications and security personnel, system integrators, radio frequency identification specialists, criticality accident and alarm system experts and others from the Kansas City Plant and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as NNSA regulators, to build a prototype.

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The PAD prototype is about the size of a standard pager.

The team’s solution was developed in record time—just seven months from concept to design to prototype development to testing. “This time frame is a testament to the folks at Y-12, KCP and ORNL who worked as one team and used the development challenge of the PAD as the focal point for their efforts,” said Tom Berg, PDRD manager for the project.

The PAD also has application outside of Y-12. “The warning applications are varied,” explained Angelo. “Although we are developing it with criticality events in mind, the PAD could easily be adapted for chemical, biological or any other event requiring rapid notification where traditional pagers are not adequate.”

The next phase of the project will be to make the PAD smaller with custom parts and easy for users. “We want the user to have a ‘set it and forget it’ mentality,” said Angelo.

Kevin Finney, Applied Technologies division manager, has high praise for the multi-site development team: “I can’t say enough about the super job the team has done. They solved this problem with an outside-of-the-box approach.”

Source: BWXTymes June 2005
[Please note, the device shown above is a prototype, not the finished product.]


PAD is simple solution to pressing problem

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Shown in actual size is the first Personal Annunciation Device prototype, which integrates wireless technology and the existing criticality accident alarm system. Subsequent prototype generations are expected to be 25% smaller.

Y-12 is leading a DOE–NNSA team in the development of a new notification device that will warn wearers of a criticality accident.

The Personal Annunciation Device is a miniature radio frequency receiver that has concurrent alarms (vibrations, light, sound) when activated. Self-checking or "intelligence" is embedded in it for enhanced reliability, giving the user information on battery life and signals. This first-of-its-kind device is smaller than most pagers and uses commercially available parts.

PAD is a response to NNSA's concerns about the use of personal radiation detection instruments as notication devices.

The PAD prototype is the result of a successful collaboration of experts from Y-12, the Kansas City Plant and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as NNSA regulators. Funding for PAD development comes from Y-12's Plant Directed Research, Development and Demonstration program.

In May, PAD demonstrated successful integration with Y-12's existing alarm systems during the annual Criticality Accident Alarm System surveillance. The next phase will make the prototype smaller and increase usability. "We want the user to have a 'set it and forget it' mentality," said Y-12 principal investigator Peter Angelo.

Source: Y-12 Report — Summer 2005, Vol. 2, Issue 2


KCP, Y-12 Develop Emergency Notification Device

Collaboration between NNSA’s Y-12 facility in Tennessee and the Kansas City Plant (KCP) in Missouri has resulted in the development of a device that can immediately notify Y-12 employees if a nuclear criticality accident were to occur.

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The Kansas City Plant’s Barry Driscoll led the team that built a prototype of the PAD unit in time for a test of Y-12’s emergency notification system.

Because of the nature of its work, which includes use of nuclear material, the Y-12 facility operates under very stringent safety guidelines, including a requirement to provide emergency notification in the event of a criticality accident — a mishap that could release a large amount of radiation.

In the event of an emergency such as a radiation leak, it is essential that employees be notified immediately. Y-12 has been challenged by the NNSA to provide a notification system to supplement the Criticality Accident Alarm System (CAAS) currently in use at the facility.

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