Lessons Learned in Projecting the Monitoring of
Nuclear Material Production into the Field

US national laboratories seek to use their own facilities to develop and test methods for monitoring of nuclear material production. As part of a recent monitoring effort, different aspects of edge computing were assessed, including approaches for remote data transmission, best practices for unattended systems and sensors, and system-level complementarity and redundancy. These approaches inadvertently received additional testing due to COVID19- related travel restrictions, which required the unattended operation of remote sensor networks for longer periods of time than had been previously tested. Here we report lessons learned and describe observed tradeoffs between different approaches.