To collect enough data I drove for a few hours across the city of Timisoara. Thanks to my beautiful assistant I got to have a demo video of the entire procedure:
To better analyse the results of this first test, I had to built a web interface that plots all data across an OpenLayers map of Timisoara. While the sensor unit only features 5xSBM19 for sensitive radiation detection, a BME280 sensor mounted inside the unit's case (for temperature, barometric pressure, humidity), a BME680 sensor (temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, VOC) mounted inside the air tube, a Sharp GP2Y1010 dust sensor, the smartphone also adds GPS details including latitude, longitude, altitude and speed. All this together results in valuable information regarding the environmental quality, mapped geographically to exact location. The data can be accessed on the interactive map.




I'm definitely curious about the elevated radiation readings in that area, while the numbers are not big, there must be a cause, especially given the increased detection distance. Here the sensitive Geiger detector played its role. I will research the phenomenon further and report back with more details.
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