Monitoring & metering
flexible platform capable of interfacing with a wide range of radiation detectors, regardless of manufacturer, while remaining open to future technologies. These systems support diverse network types, including ethernet, radio, LoRaWAN, GSM, and our proprietary Conet technology. Conet is particularly valuable because it allows operators to reuse existing cabling for modern digital communications, bypassing the need for expensive rewiring projects. This flexibility reduces both cost and risk, while allowing the RSS to evolve independently of the primary control platform.
Over the past 30 years, this approach has proven its value. Omniflex RSS installations across the UK’s nuclear sector continue to provide reliable real-time and historical data, supporting both operational safety and regulatory compliance.
In nuclear environments, change itself is a risk factor. Every cable replaced, every sensor removed and every interface modified must be justified, documented and validated. Therefore, the ability to upgrade monitoring systems without disturbing field infrastructure is a major advantage.
For legacy DCS/RSS replacement projects, Maxiflex remains a particularly effective solution. Its unlimited I/O capacity allows existing radiation monitors to be retained alongside onboarding new ones, while its communications flexibility ensures compatibility with modern control room systems. The approach taken in Omniflex’s work across the UK’s nuclear sites shows that effective modernisation is not about wholesale replacement. It is about designing systems that can evolve, accommodate legacy equipment and remain supportable for decades. In nuclear environments, that approach is both good engineering practice and essential to maintaining safety and public trust. To give nuclear plant operators peace of mind that they will not encounter the same obsolescence difficulties again down the line, Omniflex guarantees lifetime technical and service support for all its products that remain in service.
As the industry continues to modernise, success will depend not on how quickly new technology can be deployed, but on how carefully it can be integrated into the complex, long-lived systems that nuclear facilities rely on every day.
For more information on control and monitoring systems for use in nuclear facilities, download Omniflex’s nuclear sector overview for free on its website.
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