Smart Management System in NPP based on IoT and UAV (1)

Abstract

IT-integrated industry is an industry in which the networking, intellectualizing, and internalizing traits of information technology are integrated into various industries of automobile, shipbuilding, mechanics, aviation, construction, energy, health care, fabrics, and lighting, in an attempt to heighten the values added to existing core industries and create new integrated industries. An integrated industry is defined as a technology that leads future economic, social and cultural changes by producing creative values in these areas through the bettering integrations by 6T’s (IT, BT, ET, NT, ST, CT) between IT fields themselves or between these fields of IT and the existing industries and studies. Recently as the Japanese government has renounced the restoration of the most polluted regions and declared them as permanent non-habitable areas, further issues are being reported with regards to initial prevention of the matter, and the protection of the residents, in order to prevent nuclear power plant-related accidents from turning long-term. One way of preventing such accidents in the initial stage involves the inspection of the cracks in the concrete structures to maximize durability and minimize reducing factors. The decrease in the load-bearing capacity and lifespan of the structures, salt damage and neutralization are the usual causes of the cracks in serious cases. It is generally known that the incidence of nuclear power plant-related accident is relatively lower than that of other facilities, but the fact that every accident can develop to a considerable extent remains as the biggest problem. The usual causes of accidents include natural disasters such as earthquake and tsunami. However, as the nuclear power plant has deeply been embedded in the modern society as an essential element, there have been more safety measured developed and more safety management efforts made. In this study, we have performed safety management of a nuclear power plant not by a human, but by the means of flying sensors in flight, and developed a smart disaster prevention platform which can not only perform the safety management of the plants, but also manage the built-in fine dust control system, and prevent accidents in the first place and reduce the damage through an early response by the use of the flying sensors in case of radiation-related accidents such as leak of CBR and other hazardous chemical substances.