Most current airport screening uses Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS), which is very limited in its ability to detect inorganic explosives. To improve the performance of screening for inorganics suited to the particular challenges of mass transit applications, researchers within the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science at the University of Tasmania are developing ScantexTM, a technology and device that can generate rapid, reliable and detailed data when IEDs are detected.

Suited to mass rapid transit security screening, e.g., airports, rail, and ports, Scantex aims to do what no current rapid screening of explosives in mass transit applications can: save critical time by detecting, analyzing and identifying precisely traces of inorganic explosives within 60 seconds. Other security situations, such as major public events, may also benefit from the technology.

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