fibre-optics

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
THPL010	CLS LINAC Safety System Upgrade	linac, controls, instrumentation, simulation	144
	H. Zhang, C. Britton, G. Cubbon, C. Finlay, E. Matias, R. Tanner CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
	The Canadian Light Source (CLS) has upgraded the safety system for its Linear Accelerator (Linac) in October 2009. IEC 61508 SIL 3 certified components and methods were adopted in the development of the new safety system. This paper describes the new safety system and outlines the lessons learned from the project in applying industrial safety rated PLC equipment in the development of safety system for CLS accelerator.
	Poster
FRCOAA05	Data Acquisition from heterogeneous sensor networks: the case of NEPTUNE Canada, the world largest cabled ocean observatory.	instrumentation, controls, monitoring, optics	214
	B. Pirenne ONC, Victoria
	Ocean Sciences is at the crossroads: it is entering the brave new world of "Big Science". The first of a new generation of large facilities, the NEPTUNE Canada cabled ocean observatory (www.neptunecanada.ca) will be presented from the point of view of a sensor network composed of hundreds of diverse instruments. The challenges we faced will be reviewed, together with the selected network design, data management and data distribution approaches. Special emphasis will be placed on the architecture of the system and on the more recent developments and concepts used to help scientists in their exploitation of the data. Finally a number of the early discoveries made with the new facility will be briefly described.
	Slides