Method and assembly for inspecting a plurality of elements of an industrial plant

A method of inspecting a plurality of elements of an industrial plant, the method comprising the steps of:

• creating an application having a user interface having a command for each element to be inspected;
• repeatedly acquiring image data of the elements of the industrial plant using a mobile device, and storage of the image data in an acquisition memory, each image data comprising at least one image and a timestamp indicating a time at which the image data was acquired;
• activating the commands at respective activation times;
• and
• associating the image data with the elements, the image data associated with a given element being chosen exclusively from the image data having a timestamp between the time of activation of the command corresponding to said element and the time of activation of a preceding or following command,
• wherein the user interface comprises a schematic representation of the plant, each command being a touch-sensitive zone of the schematic representation.

A method of inspecting a plurality of elements of an industrial plant, the method comprising the steps of:

• creating an application having a user interface having a command for each element to be inspected;
• repeatedly acquiring image data of the elements of the industrial plant using a mobile device, and storage of the image data in an acquisition memory, each image data comprising at least one image and a timestamp indicating a time at which the image data was acquired;
• activating the commands at respective activation times;
• and
• associating the image data with the elements, the image data associated with a given element being chosen exclusively from the image data having a timestamp between the time of activation of the command corresponding to said element and the time of activation of a preceding or following command,
• wherein the industrial plant is a nuclear reactor, the elements being selected from the following list:
• elements belonging to control rod cluster command mechanisms;
• elements carried by a closing head of a reactor pressure vessel;
• elements located in a reactor zone with a dose equivalent flow-rate greater than 1 mSv/h;
• elements located in rooms close to the pressure vessel;
• elements located at the bottom of the spent fuel pool;
• or
• elements located behind pipes;
• the method being used within a framework of investigations requiring a plurality of shots of different equipment items located in a plurality of rooms.

An inspection set for inspecting a plurality of elements of an industrial plant, the inspection set comprising:

• an application having a user interface with a command for each element to be inspected;
• and
• a mobile acquisition device for image data of the industrial plant and an acquisition memory configured for storing such image data, each image datum comprising at least one image and a timestamp indicating a time at which the image datum was acquired;
• the application being configured so that an activation of the commands, at respective activation times, initiates a transfer from the acquisition memory into a receiving memory of all image data having a timestamp between the time of activation of said command and the time of activation of a preceding command,
• wherein the inspection set comprises a data storage specific for each element.