Remote participation in ITER exploitation—conceptual design

The ITER facility, being built as an international collaboration, will be used by the multiple participating countries, both via their representatives on site and via remote participation. Remote access will be an integral part of the ITER control system (CODAC) and will consist of two main interface components a data gateway serving outgoing data requests and a request gatekeeper overseeing incoming configuration requests. This paper gives an overview of the current state of the design of remote access to ITER experimentation and reports on the principal results of R&D activity on the gatekeeper functionality conducted jointly by the ITER Organization, General Atomics and MIT. (C) 2011 ITER. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.