RadioactivityCounter for Android - REAL working Geiger counter + 10Sv/h Image

Based on the CMOS camera sensors we succeeded in developing an App for android mobiles, working as a real Geiger Counter. This is not a fun app as many other ! We already did several measurements on different devices with several calibrated radiation sources (CO60, CS137 from 10 µS/h to 10 Sv/h at the Helmholtz research center Munich - Buchler Anlage) . Here I show how the app works and how you can enter the adjustment values to show a Gray/h or Sievert/h display. Best results are listed on our homepage (HTC Desire or Samsung Mini for example are very sensitive also Nexus One. In the video we show at the end also a 10Sievert/h radiation image on the camera sensor - very impressive traces like a fog chamber. iPhone App coming soon.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Radioactivity
• Counter
• Geiger
• Zaehler
• Android
• CMOS
• camera
• CCD
• sensor
• Sievert
• Gray
• Buchler
• Anlage
• Helmholtz
• HTC
• Desire
• Samsung
• Mini
• Nexus
• One
• phone
• mobile
• fog
• chamber
• beta
• gamma
• iPhone

[Zardwark]

It needs to make a clicking sound for that real authentic 5-Mile Island feel :-)

[rolfdieterklein]

@Zardwark the android does, for the iPhone version the click will come in the next versions.

[rolfdieterklein]

The App is now available also for the iPhone (3GS,4,4S), iPad (2) and iPod (2) in the Apple App Store.

[Graham6410]

I would like to see something like this for my Blackberry, would be so cool to see :)

[rolfdieterklein]

@Graham6410 Yes it should work, only we dont have the developer stuff for this and we need support from the manufacturers to handle the different models -- same for the microsoft 7.5 mobil devices or BADA -- all on our nice to have wishlist but hard to fund.

[rolfdieterklein]

@fallphonometer38 good comment and hard to tell. If you handle the app with care it can help. But as I wrote in our start text, never feel save when you have not counts. But if you have nothing to measure then you are even more unsure whats going on. And you cannot sense a radiation otherwise. It can help making decision. Food A with 5 CPM and Food B with 100 CPM - I would take Food A or none of them... thats what it is intended. In case of emergency you can try to minimize radiation.

[traxonja]

hello Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger :-)

[LookAmongTheHeavens]

has anyone in japan tested yet ?

[Stardog32]

@ChingChongCification I can understand him perfectly, maybe you have a problem with your hearing.

[fallphonometer38]

Will this be our future? But measuring doesn't necessarily mean controlling the danger. Wouldn't this nice new device give you a false feeling of security? Or might it lead to hysteria in some people measuring all around their daily life?

[rolfdieterklein]

@ZeCo0202 Ich weiss, eigentlich haette ich es in japanisch sprechen muessen, aber das wird dann schon gar nichts. Ein native sprecher ist natuerlich besser. Deutsche version kommt noch...

[ZeCo0202]

Ist ja schön, dass man so ne App entwickelt hat... aber wenn die Muttersprache schon Deutsch ist, dann doch bitte auch auf Deutsch halten. Denn das Englisch hört sich einfach nur grausam an. Zumindest kann ich da kaum zu hören.

Wenn mans unbedingt auf Englisch haben möchte, dann jmd. bei dem man das "deutsche" nicht so raushört ;)

btw: Bei mir hört sich das auch nicht viel besser an, deshalb lass ich es auch sein ;)