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Romania won the Grand Prix at Geneva
Romania won the Grand Prix of the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva
Bucharest, April 11 /Agerpres/ - Romania won the Grand Prix of the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, the world's largest market-place for inventions, for its Roboscan 1 M - a gamma-ray radiography system for trucks - devised by MB Telecom, a fully Romanian-owned company.
The equipment devised by the Romanian company won the great prize by an unanimous vote of the 82 judges and it also won their congratulations. Running in the competition were more than 1,000 inventions from 45 countries. The award was won by Romania for the first time in the show's 37-year history.
Roboscan 1M is a mobile system that makes X-rays of the truck containers; it is fully robotized, it can be operated by a single person by remote control meant to fully avoid exposure to radiations. This is the only system in the world that provides total protection of the operators against gamma radiations. The 7.5-tonne scanner combines such complex technologies as nuclear physics, electronics, information technology, telecommunications, mechanics, hydraulics, finite element calculation. The equipment price ranges between 1 million and 1.5 million euros, depending on its configuration.
The device is the most advanced truck scanning system operating in the market, the specialists say. The scanner rays can search even behind a 18-cm thick steel wall, they add.
Roboscan is already being used by the National Customs Authority in five checkpoints: Siret, Giurgiulesti, Albita, Moravita and Halmeu, MB Telecom president Mircea Tudor said.
The product was designed after four years' work by a team of 15 Romanian experts, about whom Mircea Tudor said: 'Any of them could be employed anywhere across the world in just five minutes after filing his/her CV and they would earn at least 10,000 euros a month'.
MB Telecom fully funded the research project from its own resources, having invested six million euros.
The company's stand was believed by many visitors as being the most spectacular, since it displayed a real series-made product, backed by interactive media presentation that also attracted the public's vote, thus confirming the unanimous vote of the judges.
[Source: Romanian National News Agency AGERPRES ]
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