Research Article
RnMonitor: An IoT-Enabled Platform for Radon Risk Management in Public Buildings
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-51005-3_6, author={Pedro Martins and S\^{e}rgio I. Lopes and Felisberto Pereira and Ant\^{o}nio Curado}, title={RnMonitor: An IoT-Enabled Platform for Radon Risk Management in Public Buildings}, proceedings={Science and Technologies for Smart Cities. 5th EAI International Summit, SmartCity360, Braga, Portugal, December 4-6, 2019, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={SMARTCITY}, year={2020}, month={7}, keywords={Cyber-Physical Systems IoT Radon}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-51005-3_6} }- Pedro Martins
Sérgio I. Lopes
Felisberto Pereira
António Curado
Year: 2020
RnMonitor: An IoT-Enabled Platform for Radon Risk Management in Public Buildings
SMARTCITY
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-51005-3_6
Abstract
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that can easily accumulate in indoor environments, being classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the second most important cause of lung cancer after tobacco, negatively impacting public health. The presence of this gas indoors tends to increase in regions were the subsoil presents a higher granitic prevalence, such as the northern and central interior regions of Portugal. The paper introduces RnMonitor, a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) with humans-in-the-loop specifically designed for online monitoring and active mitigation of radon risk in public buildings. The system takes advantage of an IoT device specifically designed to acquire radon concentration and other relevant Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and consequently transmit the collected data, using a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN), to a cloud-engine for reasoning and therefore trigger specific mitigation actions, e.g. manual ventilation.
