Patent ID: 9746564
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G01T,G08C,H04Q

Claim:
1. A dosimeter, comprising: a radiation detector; a control circuit connected to the radiation detector; a normally dormant communications circuit connected to the control circuit; a power supply connected to the control circuit; a wakeup actuator connected to the control circuit for actuating the communications circuit at selected times only when it is desired to transmit dosimeter data from the dosimeter; wherein the communications circuit has wireless communications capability for transmitting the dosimeter data, the wireless communications capability being normally dormant; wherein the control circuit comprises a memory or a register to store the dosimeter data that have been transmitted from the dosimeter; the communications circuit connected to the control circuit for transmitting the dosimeter data from the radiation detector in the form of a packet of data, said packet of data including dosimeter serial number and radiation data comprising an output of the radiation detector as well as a transmission sequence number from which a central station receiving the dosimeter data transmitted from the communications circuit can determine that the packet of data has not been received by the central station.