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SpitConsult's app "Radioactivity-Meter" Turns Smartphones into Geiger Counters
CONSTANCE, Germany, October 21, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
- SpitConsult announces app for Android smartphones to meter ambient
radioactive radiation
Smartphones with Android operating system can now be used to measure the
ambient radioactive radiation. SpitConsult's app "Radioactivity-Meter" uses
the noise induced by the radioactive radiation in the smartphone's camera
chip, to detect and quantify the radioactivity.
In light of the catastrophe of Fukushima, SpitConsult developed this app
to give people a cheap tool to estimate the ambient radioactivity. "Many
people want to know, if they are, or could be contaminated by radioactive
radiation, but not all can purchase a Geiger counter," said Hans Schorn,
director of SpitConsult. "Let's develop an usable alternative."
The app uses the fact, that the camera chip of a smartphone is
influenced by several kinds of noise, e.g., thermal noise etc. The
radioactive radiation (primarily gamma radiation, and to a certain extent
beta radiation) changes the internal ratio and amount of noise.
"Radioactivity-Meter" succeeds in analyzing these changes for the camera
image and calculates the radiation causing these changes.
Since camera chips differ in sensitivity, "Radioactivity-Meter" must be
calibrated for each smartphone once, then the accuracy of measurement should
suffer to distinguish the intensity of radioactivity e.g., on ground and in
an aircraft in 10000 meter altitude.
More informations on http://www.sos-app.info. "Radioactivity-Meter" runs
on smartphones with Android operating system version 2.1 or higher and is
available on Android Market https://market.android.com for US$ 4.99.
About SpitConsult:
Founded 2011 in Constance, Germany, SpitConsult specializes in pattern
recognition. It develops and distributes software in this segment for the
worldwide market and consults German companies on speech and information
technology.
Contact: Dr. Hans-Joachim Schorn
SpitConsult
Blarerstr. 16
D-78462 Konstanz
Germany
Phone: +49-15253954527
Fax: +49-32121383481
Email: info@spitconsult.de
http://www.spitconsult.de
Source: SpitConsult
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SpitConsult's app "Radioactivity-Meter" Turns Smartphones into Geiger Counters
CONSTANCE, Germany, October 21, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
- SpitConsult announces app for Android smartphones to meter ambient
radioactive radiation
Smartphones with Android operating system can now be used to measure the
ambient radioactive radiation. SpitConsult's app "Radioactivity-Meter" uses
the noise induced by the radioactive radiation in the smartphone's camera
chip, to detect and quantify the radioactivity.
In light of the catastrophe of Fukushima, SpitConsult developed this app
to give people a cheap tool to estimate the ambient radioactivity. "Many
people want to know, if they are, or could be contaminated by radioactive
radiation, but not all can purchase a Geiger counter," said Hans Schorn,
director of SpitConsult. "Let's develop an usable alternative."
The app uses the fact, that the camera chip of a smartphone is
influenced by several kinds of noise, e.g., thermal noise etc. The
radioactive radiation (primarily gamma radiation, and to a certain extent
beta radiation) changes the internal ratio and amount of noise.
"Radioactivity-Meter" succeeds in analyzing these changes for the camera
image and calculates the radiation causing these changes.
Since camera chips differ in sensitivity, "Radioactivity-Meter" must be
calibrated for each smartphone once, then the accuracy of measurement should
suffer to distinguish the intensity of radioactivity e.g., on ground and in
an aircraft in 10000 meter altitude.
More informations on http://www.sos-app.info. "Radioactivity-Meter" runs
on smartphones with Android operating system version 2.1 or higher and is
available on Android Market https://market.android.com for US$ 4.99.
About SpitConsult:
Founded 2011 in Constance, Germany, SpitConsult specializes in pattern
recognition. It develops and distributes software in this segment for the
worldwide market and consults German companies on speech and information
technology.
Contact: Dr. Hans-Joachim Schorn
SpitConsult
Blarerstr. 16
D-78462 Konstanz
Germany
Phone: +49-15253954527
Fax: +49-32121383481
Email: info@spitconsult.de
http://www.spitconsult.de
Source: SpitConsult
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