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First Responder app to detect radioactivity for Android, Smartphones and Tablets

GammaPix Pro provides a low-cost alternative for First Responders to a Personal Radioactivity Detector (PRD). The app works with an unmodified smartphone or tablet camera to detect potentially harmful gamma radiation. The app automatically measures and reports radioactivity levels to a Command Center to help protect the community from radioactivity accidents (such as occurred in Fukushima, Japan) or a terrorist attack by a Dirty Bomb or a quietly placed Radiation Exposure Device (RED).

Organizations have the choice of a secure, cloud-based data collection and analysis Command Center, or they may host their own, local GammaPix Command Center server. With the Data Portability option, GammaPix Pro software can instead direct data to any 3rd-Party Common Operating Picture data dashboard.

GammaPix radioactivity detection software works because of the inherent sensitivity of digital cameras to ionizing gamma radiation. Software detects the telltale signatures created when gamma rays interact with the camera’s image chip.

Validated at national labs, and twice designated a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology (QATT) under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security-administered SAFETY Act, GammaPix software is a proven technology.

Bright signatures for gamma ray hits on a 10sec exposure from an iPhone close to a small radioactive source

Bright signatures for gamma ray hits on a 10sec exposure from an iPhone close to a small radioactive source


The Innovative GammaPix technology (US patent numbers: 7,391,028; 7,737,410; 8,158,950; 8,324,589; and 8,563,937) has been successfully tested at independent laboratories with calibrated sources. GammaPix apps were developed with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). 

The GammaPix Pro App is included in the GammaPix Pro Package