Penn Olson: Worried About Radiation? There’s an App for That

...designer Haiyan Zhang has tapped into crowd-sourced radiation readings to create her ‘geigermap.’ This visualization was created from net-connected geiger counters across Japan, aggregated via Pachube.com, a website that collects such data.

IEEE Spectrum: Radiation Monitoring in Japan Goes DIY

A group of device hackers are digitizing Geiger counter readings to monitor radiation levels in real time across Japan.

The data is being aggregated by the platform Pachube (pronounced “patch-bay”), which allows users to upload and share sensor data.

TIME: Tech in Troubled Times

The site is powered by Pachube, a software platform used for the much-touted "internet of things," a term used to describe networks of connected devices or sensors. The map shows the location and the time of the readings, plus the amount of radiation detected.