On May 21, 2013 public company “Intersoft Eurasia”, a Skolkovo resident in the nuclear technologies cluster, received patents for the original model and design of a portable dosimeter-radiometer DO-RA Ultra-Blue-GM, which, in contrast to its previous versions, includes an inductive recharge and the possibility of communication with a smartphone via a Bluetooth channel 4.0
With such specifications DO-RA Ultra-Blue-GM will have a waterproof body that will considerably increase various applications of this device in practice, stated Yulia Davydova, press secretary of “DO-RA” developer “Intersoft Eurasia”, to Sk.ru. Bluetooth 4.0, a radio channel for transfer of digital data, allows to very economically consume battery charge for communication with another device. For this reason witty developers of public company “Intersoft Eurasia” (DO-RA project operator) nicknamed the Bluetooth 4.0 protocol “low-calorie”.
A radiation detector in the device of the DO-RA Ultra-Blue-GM model is a standard Geiger-Müller counter “SBM-21-1” developed by Russian manufactures. This is reflected in the GM coding at the end of the letter index of the device.
Using the Bluetooth 4.0 channel the new model DO-RA Ultra-Blue-GM will work with any smartphone supporting this connection protocol, not depending on the operational system used by the smartphone. In order to work with the device it is necessary to download the free client application DO-RA to your device online in the App Store, Android and WP Market or on the website http://do-ra.ru. Today the application DO-RA is available in 23 world languages.
The idea of creating DO-RA design was born on March 29, 2011, after the article on the topic of “Our Radioactive World” was published. In the beginning Vladimir Yelin went through reviews on dosimeters and radiometers on the web, then bought a couple of domestic dosimeters and dismantled them to examine the insides, and then conducted a patent search on the originality of the idea. It was then that he got a chance to reveal the uniqueness of the useful model. It turned out that there are no analogues in the patent banks of many countries on the topic of combining a mobile phone, a smartphone and a dosimeter-radiometer. To be more precise, there naturally were analogues, but none described the idea in the format, which the formula for the useful model of the DO-RA device was created. Later a Russian patent for the dosimeter-radiometer on a mobile/smartphone was also received. Actually, what makes DO-RA unique is the fact that there were no analogues of such devices in the period of patent search and international application for the useful model. This is why today Vladimir Yelin has the priority right for this novelty and capability of reproducing of the DO-RA device useful model. The priority right dates as of June 24, 2011. Russian patent #109625.
The name DO-RA comes from the first letters of each word: dosimeter-radiometer, or DO-RA. In Russian and English the abbreviations are similar which gives the device additional recognizability.