Design and implementation of an embedded system for particle detectors

A. ALMELA; A. SEDOSKI; D. ALONSO; A. FUSTER; M. HAMPEL; S. GARAVANO; G. PIERRI; M. PLATINO; O. WAINBERG; M. VIDELA; A. LUCERO; A. ETCHEGOYEN; F. SUAREZ; A. CANCIO; D. YELOS; G. DE LA VEGA

Rio de Janeiro

Conferencia; The astroparticle physics conference, ICRC2013.; 2013

CBPF

This work describes the design and implementation of an embedded system that provides centralized control, data acquisition and environment monitoring to particle detectors. The system was designed for low power consumption, allowing the use of renewable energies as power sources. The system runs an open source operating system, allowing to write applications that are independent of the particular hardware implementation used on the detectors. Communications are provided using an Ethernet network within the detector, and 802.11n wireless radio links for communications with a centralized data storage and control server. An implementation of this system is being deployed as part of the AMIGA muon counters. This implementation and its performance verification, which were carried out by ITeDA, are also discussed in this work.