Safecast: The power of Citizen Science
summary
safecast claims rapid citizen response after Fukushima: volunteers build a working bento geiger in six days, scale to thousands of kits and fixed nodes, and publish 85 million measurements from over a hundred countries in the public domain. the project uses Arduino kits, GPS logging, LoRa and 3G gateways and a solar cost sensor for autonomous outdoor monitoring; street‑by‑street five‑second sampling reveals wildly local variance and forces rethinking of official exclusion zones.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 2:05Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
- 6:39About the Project
- 8:29Stationary Sensors
- 10:25Fukushima
- 13:42Fixed Sensors
- 18:04Air Quality Sensor
- 21:30Daiichi Fukushima Power Plant
- 22:17Can I Trust the Data
- 31:44Reduce the Cost of Failure
- 38:09The Fukushima Power Plant
- 38:38Learn More about the Project
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