Robots on the ground, drones on the sky… Real-time monitoring of fine dust
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Every spring, it is difficult to go out without worrying about yellow dust and fine dust.
Local governments are introducing advanced technologies such as autonomous robots and drones to observe fine dust.
The goal is real-time forecasts tailored to your neighborhood.
This is reporter material hyung.
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This year’s worst yellow dust that hit Korea on the 29th of last month.
The average daily fine dust concentration in Busan was the highest in 14 years, and the air quality in the metropolitan area was also the worst in 6 years.
Then, local governments began to use cutting-edge technologies such as 5G communication and autonomous driving to observe air pollution including fine dust.
It is an autonomous driving robot that measures air quality that Jeonju introduced recently.
In addition to analyzing the collected fine dust and transmitting it to the 5G communication network, it is also possible to identify fires and gas leaks in a specific area.
This self-driving robot can measure air quality by moving alone where 4 to 5 existing fixed measuring devices are installed.
“In the case of a mobile autonomous robot measuring machine, there is an advantage of being able to measure the entire path and area that the robot travels in real time.”
If there are autonomous robots on the ground, drones respond to fine dust in the sky.
Dalseo-gu, Daegu, built an environmental monitoring system last month using an unmanned aerial vehicle drone.
Drones collect fine dust from high places or immediately notify the control room of the occurrence of air pollution.
“If fine dust or air pollutants are less polluted (only around the stationary meter), it will not be able to measure properly, but the mobile type can get a standardized concentration by taking measurements here and there and calculating the average value.”
Since last month, the geostationary satellite Cheonrian 2B is also sending air quality information from space, so it is expected that more accurate fine dust information will be obtained in the future.
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