Southern Innovation's business is the research, development and licensing of patented intellectual property (IP) used in radiation detection. Our vision is to become known as the global technology leader in the application of advance information processing algorithms to the detection and measurement of radiation - "The Dolby of Radiation Detection and Measurement".

Our innovative approach to pulse processing resolves problems associated with 'pulse pile-up', a systemic problem throughout radiation detection and measurement applications which inhibits speed and accuracy. Our technology improves the quality of information collected whilst enabling up to a 25-fold improvement in measurement efficiency.

Southern Innovation's SITORO® technology was initially developed by Professor Rob Evans and Paul Scoullar as part of a research project at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne in Australia. After more than 10 years of research and development SITORO® technology has now been implemented in hardware which is capable of real-time pulse processing at unprecedented levels of speed and accuracy. 

SITORO® has applications in a diverse range of industries where existing radiation detection and measurement technologies can be significantly improved. Relevant industries include forensic analysis, borehole logging, medical imaging, baggage and cargo screening, homeland security, inline industrial measurement, minerals analysis and many more.

Southern Innovation, a privately owned organisation, was incorporated in 2004 to further develop and commercialise what is now known as SITORO® technology. Key milestones in the development of Southern Innovation and our SITORO® technology include:

1999
Paul Scoullar commences a review of suitable technologies for the accurate and rapid detection of landmines for humanitarian demining.

1999-2003
Professor Rob Evans and Paul Scoullar initiate a research project examining the application of new sensor technologies to the humanitarian detection and remediation of antipersonnel landmines. It quickly becomes apparent that pulse pile-up is a major problem inhibiting the efficient application of gamma ray based technologies for the detection of landmines. In 2001 Evans and Scoullar develop an algorithm to decode rather than discard pile-up events.

2004
Southern Innovation is incorporated to further develop and commercialise Evans' and Scoullar's pulse processing algorithm. Martin Hosking (Chairman) and David Scoullar (Non-executive Director) join Paul Scoullar on the Board of Directors.

2005-2007
Technology development moves the algorithm from an offline "theoretical" technology to the hardware-implemented, real-time technology of SITORO®. Southern Innovation successfully concludes the Commercial Ready project and begins discussions with US companies about technology validation trial, an Australian patent is granted for the SITORO® technology.

2008
Southern Innovation secures a Series B investment from private investors and appoints David Scoullar as Managing Director. A US patent is granted and the 2nd generation of  SITORO® technology is released and presented at 5 scientific conferences.

2009
Southern Innovation's SITORO® technology demonstrates a 20 fold improvement over state-of-the art performance for scintillation based radiation detection, the technical team expands further, a number of technology validation trials are ongoing.

Contact Us
Southern Innovation would welcome the opportunity to discussion your application of our digital pulse processing technology in more detail. For business development enquiries contact the sales team at sales@southerninnovation.com.

More information about the technical specifications of Southern Innovation's SITORO® digital pulse processing technology can be found in our technical library [here>>] or, if you have further questions, feel free to contact our technical team-tech@southerninnovation.com.