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Potential Applications

Winning E-Commerce Last Mile

Retail, Food Service, Food Delivery

With the rising popularity of at home grocery delivery driving sales and differentiating competitors, a retailer needs to know that their safety and quality standards extend through the last mile. The retailer works with our team to design a study across seasons and geographies to validate and improve existing practices. With the aid of inexpensive biosensors and risk modeling, our team gives the retailer crucial insights into the safety and quality of the food delivered to customers’ doors. The retailer’s practices as a result are backed by real data, and customers can shop with more confidence.

Empowered by these insights, the retailer continues to work with our team to deploy the sensors outside the study and give themselves and customers greater peace of mind. Whether it’s a fresh steak from the store or sushi from across town on a summer day, our team can help you get unparalleled insights into the last mile of your food’s journey.

Best Practice Food Processing

Food Production and Processing

A dairy brand wants to build a new state of the art milk processing facility. They want greater efficiency with a smaller carbon footprint. Our interdisciplinary team works with the facility design team to integrate a microwave-based pasteurization system and environmental monitoring sensors into the plant design. The result is a more cost-efficient, safer, and more environmentally friendly dairy facility.

Regardless of whether you are producing the trendiest new yogurt, a crazy flavor of potato chip, artisan sauerkraut, or pet food, our team of experts can help optimize your operations for quality, safety and efficiency.

Precision Agriculture

Agriculture, Growers

Facing cost pressures and wanting to implement more ecological-friendly agricultural practices, an agribusiness works with our team to unlock new and unparalleled insights into their operations. The agribusiness with our advisement deploys cost-effective sensors, mobile robots, and drones to monitor crop and soil health, pest infestations, and irrigation. As a result, the agribusiness can reduce the use of pesticides, herbicides, etc. while more efficiently using water to increase yield and reduce costs.

Troubleshooting the Most Sophisticated Supply Chains

Aerospace, Advanced Manufacturing, Supply Chain

Biomedical researchers working on groundbreaking research in a low-Earth orbit (LEO) environment cannot find out why their samples change when returned to earth. Working with our team, the client places bespoke sensors at strategic points in the logistics chain to discover where and how in the transit process the samples corrupts. The researchers then successfully troubleshoot the issue and make the next breakthrough in their research without costly and unnecessary trial and error redesigns of current practices.

Whether you are manufacturing in LEO, the Mojave desert or NYC our team of experts can help provide valuable data driven insights regardless of the complexity of the manufacturing process or supply chain.

Validating Transformational Technologies

Retail, Food Safety Testing

With operational costs rising, a retailer wants to better protect themselves from the immense reputational and potential food safety costs of a food fraud incident. The retailer is approached by several companies offering different food fraud detection technologies. With the aid of a third-party lab, our team quickly assesses and tests the solutions against established standards. The retailer then confidently moves forward with the best solution to protect their customers and brand.

Reducing Food borne Illness

Agriculture, Food Production and Processing, Retail

A meat processor suffers a major financial and reputational blow when they must recall product related to a food borne illness outbreak. Working with our team, the company installs sensors at strategic points in their processing operations to assess the most effective and cost-efficient interventions to reduce the spread of food-borne pathogens. Data from the sensors combined with risk assessment modeling allows them to find both effective and cost-efficient interventions to help avoid another costly recall and regain consumer trust.

Global Insights Working Locally

Agriculture, Public Health, Veterinary Sciences

A poultry company in Southeast Asia contracts experts from a local university to help them manage an incidence of avian influenza. The local experts want to better understand how other countries have handled similar outbreaks as well as deploy early detection systems to save the company money. Our team provides strategic counsel to the local team based on experience from the US, Europe, and Asia. In addition, our team works with them to strategically implement a monitoring system that saves the corporate partner from huge financial and reputational losses due to an outbreak in their operations.

Cross-border Collaboration

Agriculture, Research Universities

A research university in the Middle East wants to collaborate with world leading institutions in agriculture and food safety. Working with our team, the research institute clarifies their objectives and opportunities as well as identifies top candidates. With our team’s experience and connections, the University forges productive partnerships with an EU and a US university around joint research, faculty exchange, and student training in minimal time.