Development of Reconfigurable Low-Power Measuring IoT Device for Detecting Common Radioactive Elements for Earth and Space Applications
Paper ID : 1040-ICRSSSA-FULL
Authors
Mohamed Ezzat El-Hadedy *1, Mohamed El-Ashkar2, Halima El-Naga3
13801 West Temple Ave. Pomona, CA 91768 USA, College of Engineering ECE-department College of Engineering ECE-department
2Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority
3ECE, College of Engineering, CalPoly Pomona
Abstract
In this project, we are collecting samples from different environmental locations across the country, which will help us understand the concentration of various radioactive elements, especially beta and gamma radiation. First, we use a state-of-the-art radiation detector to list the possible radioactive elements. The second stage of the study focuses on developing a new set of radiation detectors that uses the internet of things (IoT) elements such as raspberry pi, Arduino, and ESP single-board computing elements along with analog sensors to produce a low-power detector that can be used widely in building a national altering radiation network for 24/7 monitoring the radiation activities across the country in a run-time manner. In addition, part of the current study focuses on using reconfigurable platforms such as FPGA that are considered rad-hard to work with the peripheral analog sensors as BM-20 Geiger-Muller Tube to collect the target data about some radiation elements such as beta and gamma radiation is popularly overall the outer space. Finally, we plan to add lightweight cryptographic primitives into the proposed detector for securing the reads coming out of the sensor by applying the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol between the local board and an app on the phone (Android app).

Summarizing the project:
1) Study the scalability possibilities for extending the design to be multiple nodes across the country for having a low-power runtime radiation network in the strategic locations.
2) Extend the possibilities of using such design in multiple space tiny devices such as CubeSat for short-space missions
Keywords
FPGA, Raspberry PI, Arduino, BM-20 Geiger-Muller, LightWeight Crypto
Status: Accepted (Oral Presentation)