Monitoring of radiation around Fukushima NPP and crowdsourcing
As you know, in Japan at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, an accident is continuing which has caused a radiation leak that is now being eliminated. However, in addition to reports from news agencies, TEPCO and Japanese government agencies, citizens self-organize and monitor the radioactive situation, as well as extract official radiation monitoring data and turn them into visual projects.
Next, I will review several active projects right now.
1. Pachube
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Literally from their site:
Store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy, energy from objects, devices & buildings around the world. Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that helps you connect the internet of things.
In fact, it is a system of various sensors connected to the Internet and periodically publishing various indicators, such as: radiation level, electricity and gas consumption, and many other devices. This is a very powerful project, with a large catalog of applications, actively developing and, in principle, making an impression.
By selecting the section of radiation sensors - http://www.pachube.com/map/tags/sensor:type=radiation, you can get a full list of them and, in particular, see sensors in Japan around the Fukushima reactor.
Link - www.pachube.com
Screenshot of the main page:
2. Japan Radiation Open Data
Marian Steinbach, an information designer from Germany, first monitored the radiation data manually, and then created a script that scrapped data from the websites of the responsible Japanese departments and publishes them in open data formats, in the form of CSV files.
Link - www.sendung.de/japan-radiation-open-data
Screenshot of the blog's main page:
3. GeigerCrowd
This project is open source in order to create a network of monitoring readings of radiation meters. So far, the results there are not as noticeable as on other projects, but the availability of the source code allows the use of their work.
Site link - geigercrowd.net
GitHub Repository - github.com/geigercrowd
Screenshot of the main page
4. Radiation map (Crowdmap)
The radiation map is a thematic project within the Crowdmap service built on the Ushahidi platform.
Screenshot of the main page:
5. RDTN.org
RDTN is now the most complete project for monitoring radioactive environments. On the map, they display crowdsourcing information from citizens and counters, including counters from the Pachube.
Link - www.rdtn.org
Screenshot of the main page:
- I especially want to mention the projects Pachube and Crowdmap, since they are already not just thematic, but are initially tuned to the high efficiency of their creation. In Pachube, it is enough to add new sensors, and in Crowdmap to make a new thematic project through their interface.
This greatly simplifies the speed of response of citizens to emergency situations.
And, of course, such projects become more valuable when there is open state data on monitoring the situation and when people are trying to convert inconvenient public data into open data, as Marian Steinbach does.
Next, I will review several active projects right now.
1. Pachube
')
Literally from their site:
Store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy, energy from objects, devices & buildings around the world. Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that helps you connect the internet of things.
In fact, it is a system of various sensors connected to the Internet and periodically publishing various indicators, such as: radiation level, electricity and gas consumption, and many other devices. This is a very powerful project, with a large catalog of applications, actively developing and, in principle, making an impression.
By selecting the section of radiation sensors - http://www.pachube.com/map/tags/sensor:type=radiation, you can get a full list of them and, in particular, see sensors in Japan around the Fukushima reactor.
Link - www.pachube.com
Screenshot of the main page:
2. Japan Radiation Open Data
Marian Steinbach, an information designer from Germany, first monitored the radiation data manually, and then created a script that scrapped data from the websites of the responsible Japanese departments and publishes them in open data formats, in the form of CSV files.
Link - www.sendung.de/japan-radiation-open-data
Screenshot of the blog's main page:
3. GeigerCrowd
This project is open source in order to create a network of monitoring readings of radiation meters. So far, the results there are not as noticeable as on other projects, but the availability of the source code allows the use of their work.
Site link - geigercrowd.net
GitHub Repository - github.com/geigercrowd
Screenshot of the main page
4. Radiation map (Crowdmap)
The radiation map is a thematic project within the Crowdmap service built on the Ushahidi platform.
Screenshot of the main page:
5. RDTN.org
RDTN is now the most complete project for monitoring radioactive environments. On the map, they display crowdsourcing information from citizens and counters, including counters from the Pachube.
Link - www.rdtn.org
Screenshot of the main page:
- I especially want to mention the projects Pachube and Crowdmap, since they are already not just thematic, but are initially tuned to the high efficiency of their creation. In Pachube, it is enough to add new sensors, and in Crowdmap to make a new thematic project through their interface.
This greatly simplifies the speed of response of citizens to emergency situations.
And, of course, such projects become more valuable when there is open state data on monitoring the situation and when people are trying to convert inconvenient public data into open data, as Marian Steinbach does.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/117870/
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