One hundred Radnote stations to monitor the radiation background in Ukraine will be provided to the SaveDnipro NGO, which has developed the SaveEcoBot chatbot for monitoring environmental pollution. The activists reported this to AIN.UA.

Radnote is a development of Blues Inc. It will be handed over to the stations jointly with the volunteer organization Safecast. Raymond Ozzie, CEO of Blues Inc, is also one of the directors of Safecast, and he came to Ukraine and visited the Chornobyl zone.

According to Pavlo Tkachenko, technical director of SaveDnipro and chief developer of SaveEcoBot, foreign partners’ interest in Ukraine is related to nuclear threats from Russia.

He noted that the need for information on the state of the radiation background has increased. Pavlo Tkachenko also drew attention to the Chornobyl zone, where he calls monitoring radiation levels a specific task.

According to the publication, there are currently 25 Radnote stations in Ukraine. These stations are equipped with a solar panel with a battery and backup power from a Tadiran battery.

They are not “afraid” of power outages, which is an advantage of the stations. The fact is that during the shelling and blackouts, they were the only radiation monitoring stations that continued to operate.

Radnote uses cellular wireless data transmission via BluesNotecard. This is a low-power cellular card designed for IoT devices.

The publication explains that this eliminates the dependence on vulnerable wired Internet connections, which are traditionally used for network sensors. In a situation where the cellular network goes down, the device will continue to accumulate data until it can transfer it to the server.

By the way, the SaveEcoBot chatbot was launched in 2018, and now its data and maps are used by millions of people around the world.