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200 uRADMonitor units deployed

A project log for Global radiation monitoring network

The uRADMonitor is a plug-and-play, low power, self contained radiation monitoring device, connected to a centralised server component.

radu-motisanRadu Motisan 03/01/2015 at 15:070 Comments

As you know, uRADMonitor was one of the HackADay.io 2014 semifinalists. The competition brought together a lot of excitement and constructive energy, but for some of the competing projects it went as quickly as it came, leaving only deserted project pages behind.

We would have chosen the space trip, like true hackers do, but uRADMonitor didn't win the competition. Yet it is still going, building on the exposure it got from this great event, and only a few months later, the global network of radiation detectors has reached an exciting number of 200 deployed, interconnected units, moving a DIY project to an unprecedented scale.

uradmonitor_devices_feb_2015
The new locations are many and it would be a rather complicated task to name them all in a decent size blog post, but iterate just a few, the additions include:

uradmonitor-australia-new-zealanduradmonitor-italy
uradmonitor-united-kingdom-isle-of-man-irelanduradmonitor-norway-sweden
uradmonitor-moscow-russiauradmonitor-istanbul-turkey
uradmonitor-franceuradmonitor-estonia
uradmonitor-british-virgin-islandsuradmonitor-austria-czech-republic-hungary-slovakia

With this impressive increase in units reaching two hundred, the volume of global radiation data collected has gone up as well, getting closer to a total of 20 million entries.
uradmonitor_total_data

The stats show a major presence of uRADMonitor units in the United States, followed by Australia, Germany, Canada and Great Britain. The column marked TMP represents mostly units currently in transit or waiting to be installed.
uradmonitor_units_per_country
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