A company will distribute a ‘radioactivity safety guard application (RadMap)’ that enables citizens to frequently measure radioactivity and share its figure in mobile environment.
SR Korea (President: Hwang Sang-gyu) said on June 4 it will provide a citizen participatory radioactivity safety guard application for free on June 5 on the occasion of the World Environment Day.
This application is operated in the form of SNS where those who have radiation detectors play the information (figure) producers’ role and the general public becomes consumers.
Radioactivity figures measured by radiation detectors in real time will be shown in the Google map in μSv/h unit per hour.
Radioactivity figures measured at 1,500 places are currently provided, and such places will be increased to around 2,000 in the near future.
Consumers can use the application after downloading from iPhone AppStore by searching ‘RadMap’, or radioactivity safety guard application.
Particularly, they can detect radioactivity figures in regions where they live or download and share them using ‘+’ function. But, when one wants to upload measured figures, he or she should attach a proof-shot of figures in detector to ensure data reliability.
This new application is developed based on the pervious application, ‘Real-time radioactivity identification’, developed by Jo Du-yeong, a student at Inha University, a year ago when radioactivity was proliferated across the world through wind and ocean current after the disastrous explosion accident of Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.
Having adopted the Open API technology, Jo Du-yeong’s application gained popularity in those days, reaching 300,000 downloads in accumulation, by offering radiation dose rates in real time that are provided by Korea’s IERNet and the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission in Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Given citizens’ anxiety and concerns, SR Korea launched the new application after augmenting user interface. And it will provide data to nurseries or schools in certain regions through their equipment in case they request for more detailed figures.
President Hwang Sang-gyu of SR Korea explained background of launching the application saying, “While Germany and Japan are closing nuclear power plants consecutively, people in Korea, which is surrounded by China and Japan with high dependency on nuclear power plants, are neither properly aware of potential danger of nuclear power generation and radioactivity nor share such information.”
source: e2news
