diff --git a/doc/devices/dae.md b/doc/devices/dae.md
index 84011e13..578b217f 100644
--- a/doc/devices/dae.md
+++ b/doc/devices/dae.md
@@ -191,13 +191,16 @@ Published signals:
 ### {py:obj}`PeriodSpecIntegralsReducer<ibex_bluesky_core.devices.simpledae.PeriodSpecIntegralsReducer>`
 
 This reducer exposes the raw integrals of the configured detector and monitor spectra, as
-numpy arrays. By itself, this reducer is not useful in a scan, but is useful for downstream
-processing as performed by reflectometry detector-mapping alignment for
-example.
+numpy arrays. As a convenience, this reducer additionally publishes scalar sums of detector
+and monitor intensities, and an 'intensity' (detector sum divided by monitor sum).
 
 Published signals:
 - `reducer.mon_integrals` - `numpy` array of integrated counts on each configured monitor pixel.
 - `reducer.det_integrals` - `numpy` array of integrated counts on each configured detector pixel.
+- `reducer.mon_sum` - scalar of integrated counts on each configured monitor.
+- `reducer.det_sum` - scalar of integrated counts on each configured detector pixel.
+- `reducer.intensity` - detector sum normalized by monitor sum.
+- `reducer.intensity_stddev` - standard deviation of normalized intensity.
 
 ### {py:obj}`DSpacingMappingReducer<ibex_bluesky_core.devices.simpledae.DSpacingMappingReducer>`
 
diff --git a/src/ibex_bluesky_core/devices/simpledae/_reducers.py b/src/ibex_bluesky_core/devices/simpledae/_reducers.py
index 82d74fbb..f14625aa 100644
--- a/src/ibex_bluesky_core/devices/simpledae/_reducers.py
+++ b/src/ibex_bluesky_core/devices/simpledae/_reducers.py
@@ -321,12 +321,19 @@ def additional_readable_signals(self, dae: Dae) -> list[Device]:
 class PeriodSpecIntegralsReducer(Reducer, StandardReadable):
     """A DAE Reducer which simultaneously exposes integrals of many spectra in the current period.
 
-    Two types of integrals are available: detectors and monitors. Other than defaults, their
-    behaviour is identical. No normalization is performed in this reducer - exactly how the
-    detector and monitor integrals are used is defined downstream.
+    Two types of integrals are available: detectors and monitors.
 
-    By itself, the data from this reducer is not suitable for use in a scan - but it provides
-    raw data which may be useful for further processing as part of callbacks (e.g. LiveDispatchers).
+    The exposed signals are:
+
+    - det_integrals (1-dimensional array)
+    - mon_integrals (1-dimensional array)
+
+    For convenience, three additional properties are also exposed:
+
+    - det_sum (scalar) - the sum of detector intensities across every detector.
+    - mon_sum (scalar) - the sum of monitor intensities across every monitor.
+    - intensity (scalar) - det_sum / mon_sum
+    - intensity_stddev (scalar) - det_sum / mon_sum
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -354,6 +361,10 @@ def __init__(
         self.mon_integrals, self._mon_integrals_setter = soft_signal_r_and_setter(
             Array1D[np.int32], np.ndarray([], dtype=np.int32)
         )
+        self.det_sum, self._det_sum_setter = soft_signal_r_and_setter(int, 0)
+        self.mon_sum, self._mon_sum_setter = soft_signal_r_and_setter(int, 0)
+        self.intensity, self._intensity_setter = soft_signal_r_and_setter(float, 0.0)
+        self.intensity_stddev, self._intensity_stddev_setter = soft_signal_r_and_setter(float, 0.0)
 
         super().__init__(name="")
 
@@ -393,6 +404,17 @@ async def reduce_data(self, dae: Dae) -> None:
         self._det_integrals_setter(det_integrals)
         self._mon_integrals_setter(mon_integrals)
 
+        scalar_det_sum = det_integrals.sum()
+        scalar_mon_sum = mon_integrals.sum()
+        self._det_sum_setter(scalar_det_sum)
+        self._mon_sum_setter(scalar_mon_sum)
+
+        normalized = sc.scalar(
+            scalar_det_sum, variance=scalar_det_sum + VARIANCE_ADDITION, dtype="float64"
+        ) / sc.scalar(scalar_mon_sum, variance=scalar_mon_sum + VARIANCE_ADDITION, dtype="float64")
+        self._intensity_setter(normalized.value)
+        self._intensity_stddev_setter(math.sqrt(normalized.variance))
+
         logger.info("reduction complete")
 
     def additional_readable_signals(self, dae: Dae) -> list[Device]:
@@ -400,6 +422,10 @@ def additional_readable_signals(self, dae: Dae) -> list[Device]:
         return [
             self.mon_integrals,
             self.det_integrals,
+            self.det_sum,
+            self.mon_sum,
+            self.intensity,
+            self.intensity_stddev,
         ]
 
 
diff --git a/tests/devices/simpledae/test_reducers.py b/tests/devices/simpledae/test_reducers.py
index d8cfd177..92f5a091 100644
--- a/tests/devices/simpledae/test_reducers.py
+++ b/tests/devices/simpledae/test_reducers.py
@@ -1012,6 +1012,14 @@ async def test_period_spec_integrals_reducer(
     np.testing.assert_equal(await reducer.mon_integrals.get_value(), mon_integrals)
     np.testing.assert_equal(await reducer.det_integrals.get_value(), det_integrals)
 
+    assert await reducer.mon_sum.get_value() == mon_integrals.sum()
+    assert await reducer.det_sum.get_value() == det_integrals.sum()
+
+    assert (
+        pytest.approx(await reducer.intensity.get_value())
+        == det_integrals.sum() / mon_integrals.sum()
+    )
+
 
 def test_period_spec_integrals_reducer_publishes_signals(simpledae: SimpleDae):
     reducer = PeriodSpecIntegralsReducer(detectors=np.array([]), monitors=np.array([]))