Invention: Dust buster
I student invents a new way to monitor dust levels in dark places.
the student of Yamaguchi University in japan, called Masato Shinji, says that a camera does the job
it takes a picture with a flash and dust appears as white dots in the image
and a software counts the dots to give a percentage of the dust in the range of the flash gun
and from that the density of it in the air.
that helps to know how safe are the mines and tunnels for the workers in it.
you can read the full dust counter patent application