Safecast

2011

Safecast is an international volunteer driven non-profit organization whose goal is to create useful, accessible, and granular environmental data. It was formed in response to the lack of publicly accurate and trustworthy radiation information after the Fukushima earthquake in 2011. Safecast began monitoring, collecting, and openly sharing information on environmental radiation. The information has proven useful to experts, policy makers, and the public. The system was then extended to monitoring air quality. Safecast provides a set of hardware and software tools for gathering and sharing accurate environmental data in an open and participatory fashion. Safecast benefits from having a technically skilled pool of collaborators around the globe. All tools are available open source. All Safecast data is published, free of charge, into the public domain under a Creative Common license. The tools provided by Safecast include: the mobile Safecast app for accessing radiation measurements and performing measurements using various instruments such as a Geiger or a scintillation counter; the mobile, GPS enabled, logging, radiation sensor bGeigie Nano; the outdoor air quality monitoring solution Airnote (built in partnership with Blues Wireless); the educational geiger counter kit “Kids Geigie”; the solar based radiation monitoring devices Solarcast and Solarcast Nano.