Real-time Environmental Monitoring

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April 29, 2015 at 2:54 am #1758
Dave
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Hi, I’m Dave B from Aurora, Illinois, USA. I currently run unit 1100008E. I am really excited to be part of this very worthwhile project.

I work as a Computer Engineer. Although I work mostly with software, I also enjoy Electronics such as PIC programming to understand the “hardware” side of things. I also enjoy building circuits, so this project was of particular interest. I ordered the programmer just in case I need to flash the firmware 🙂 I’m also into Ham Radio too.

I also am an avid follower of all nuclear events via documentaries. I live near Ottawa Illinois which, in the past, housed a factory that painted dials with Radium Paint. Besides killing many of the women that painted the dials, the town was littered with contamination when the factory was demolished. There’s a video called “Radium City” which is very informative. It’s difficult to tell just how many of these “hot spots” are out there 🙁

My compliments to Radu on his efforts. This is a great project!
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April 29, 2015 at 10:00 pm #1765

Radu
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Hello Mano , Dave,

It’s great to see you guys here, and thanks for the nice words!

I’ll surely do my best to improve things even further, also focusing on alpha radiation and toxic gases with this year’s new HaD project https://hackaday.io/project/4977-portable-environmental-monitor

But before jumping to new additions it is important to finalise what we have so far. There is a new website under development, that I hope to be able to launch soon.

May 9, 2015 at 7:29 pm #1892

M0LMK
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Hi.

My name is Matt and I’m on the South East coast of England. I live in a cliff top location with nothing but sea between me and Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and France!

I own and run a small hotel as my day job and have an interest in electronics, programming, Ham radio and renewable energy. I host a range of sensors/receiving units at home including a comprehensive weather station, an AIS receiver (commercial shipping identification so I can tell what boats are passing outside my window) and an APT weather satellite reception system. I also run the STaTBUOY Project and am building data collection buoys that monitor the ocean.

I would love to host a uRADMonitor and add it to my suite of data collection instruments. Would also be interesting to see how it deals with passing marine traffic in one of the worlds busiest shipping lanes.

I’m also only 62Km away (directly across the water) from the Grapelines Nuclear Power Plant in France which may be interesting.

May 10, 2015 at 10:56 am #1895

Mads Barnkob
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Hello everyone!

My name is Mads Barnkob, I live in Odense, Denmark and operate one the first and earliest uRADMonitors. uRADMonitor #11000003 https://www.uradmonitor.com/unit-in-odense-denmark-is-back-online/

I am primarily interested in high voltage, reverse engineering and experiments that generally involve some kind of either high voltage or high current. I write about my experiments at http://www.kaizerpowerelectronics.dk

There is no particular reason for me to survey background radiation other than lack of live data for where I live, I absolutely fell in love with Radu’s project and I have a thing for data acquisition / charts. uRADMonitor needs more pie charts!

May 10, 2015 at 4:44 pm #1896

Radu
Keymaster

Hi Mads, welcome, and great to see you around!

July 8, 2015 at 4:30 am #2049

wnettles
Participant

Hello, everyone!

wnettles, here, and I just powered up a model A unit in Jacksonville, FL USA. I am also new to blogs and web forums, so, please be kind. You will normally find me submerged in some robot somewhere on Florida’s east coast. You can tell it’s me when you see the souls of my shoes sticking out of the machine!

Radu was a lot of help and the unit seems to be reporting to the server quite nicely.

Now, if anyone can tell me how to get my icon to show up at the correct spot on the map, I would appreciate it. Icon appears a bit south of where I am actually located. Don’t know where the data is coming from for this, but, I can give better GPS coordinates, if that would help.

Anyway, just wanted to shout out for the first time and let yall know that I am out here. First unit in north east Florida (Jacksonville) area! Whoopee!

Look forward to hearing from yall. Have a great summer!

July 16, 2015 at 6:22 pm #2056
Waheed
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Hello from Kuwait
My name is Waheed. I got the first unit in the Middle East. I didn’t put it outside yet. The temperature in Kuwait reached 52+C. I don’t know if the device withstands such temp.?
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July 17, 2015 at 8:57 am #2059
Radu
Keymaster
Hello Waheed, and welcome!

The units have been tested to function in a -20°C to +60°C temperature interval (-4°F to 140°F).

Direct sun exposure must be avoided, as that can increase the temperature even further. A metallic shield can be used, to block sunlight but allow air to pass.
- This reply was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by Radu.
July 22, 2015 at 5:02 am #2079

David
Participant

Welcome Waheed,
Little bit cooler here in Australia but my unit has been fine between -5°c and around 45°c been running ~11 months now.

-David

July 29, 2015 at 7:44 am #2150

Radu
Keymaster

Hi David,

with all these long term data sets, we should start generating some stats showing the extremes on the long term run 🙂 It seems Waheed has his unit indoors for now, but hopefully he’ll move it outside just to give it some extra exposure.

July 30, 2015 at 11:55 am #2152

David
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Possibly the addition of min/max/avg values for each unit and reading? (temp, cpm, uSv/h)

24 hour average vs long term average to see if a day is above or below average?

I’ve got 138,000 entries across different sensors and that’s just since late April. I hate to imagine how large the full uRAD dataset is now :O

July 30, 2015 at 8:39 pm #2153

Radu
Keymaster

It’s huge …

I’ll make sure we’ll have more detailed stats, I just need to find a little time to continue my work on the new website.

August 10, 2015 at 1:53 pm #2216

randdadministrator
Participant

Hi guys,

I’ve sent query regarding making a purchase but I haven’t heard feedback yet. Does anyone know if the admin / main focal who makes these monitors is currently on leave? My email address is christopher.barker@synthotech.co.uk

Kind regards,

Chris.

August 11, 2015 at 6:18 pm #2218

Radu
Keymaster

Hi Chris, thanks for your interest, got your email and will be replying soon, as I’m still caught with a very tight deadline of the uRADMonitor-D enrolled in Hackaday’s #bestproduct competition part of this year’s Hackaday prize.

August 19, 2015 at 6:16 am #2246

Vloten
Participant

Hello from Washington DC,
I am a software guy but I like to tinker on hardware project. I saw this super cool project and want to support Radu’s efforts. I certainly hope nothing ever happens but if it does we are on ground-zero. I am running monitor #110000A7, which is still indoors. As soon as I get some time I will more it outside so get more accurate numbers.
Regards,
Peter
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