ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION AND CO2 MONITORING USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK BASED ON IOT

All nuclear power plants mandatorily enlists environmental monitoring procedures to guarantee that there are no negative effects from plant operations. Technicians and operators enrolled by nuclear power plants continuously need to sample air in different, strategic locations near the plants to determine if dangerous releases of pollutants are detectable in the environment outside the operating site . Even at the end of the power plant life cycle, the procedure of decommissioning includes a general and complete cleanup of radioactivity and progressive dismantling of the plant, together with a permanent control of the surrounding areas. To this aim, several works have been presented in the literature based on sensors networks, data acquisition systems and digital signal processing to provide real-time information on the radioactive risk. Best solutions are even characterized by wireless screens capable of provide real-time results to technicians on field.