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Stratuscent is using its Digital Nose, powered by AI, to capture the complex smell of a food product or ripening over time. Continuous scentprints predicts optimal ripeness.
About
Stratuscent uses a proprietary digital nose technology, developed by NASA for uses in the space station but perfected by the company, to capture simple and complex smells to determine the state of a product, an agricultural product, a room, a confined or open environment and many other items that are generating VOCs. The technology also allows for visualizing that smell ("scentprint") over time so that it can be used for Quality Control, seeing the evolution of a product over time as it smells changes (due to ripening, fermentation, contamination or other reasons) and take proactive actions to correct or optimize processes.
Key Benefits
Using its array of 32 sensors to capture a smell and using AI for analysis and solution purposes, a key advantage is to "sniff" a product or an environment and, following machine learning, determine what it smells within seconds. In absence of a reference for a specific item, it can also tell how close/far the product or environment is from what it has smelled in the past and thought to recognize. Instead of sending a sample of a product to the lab and wait for the results for days or weeks, the user can get an answer within seconds and take immediate steps. The continuous capture of smells can be used to see the evolution of a food over time and determine if it is taking the typical route of evolution or if something went wrong. This action might detect a product that is potentially contaminated, avoid health-related issues, detect a harmful substance in the environment and other elements that might go unnoticed by the human nose.
Applications
The number of applications is unlimited as it applies to food, agricultural product, chemistry, air cleanliness, fragrances, product development, process optimization, detecting hazards, monitor an environment in a house, a hotel room, a car, fire hazards, bacteria contamination and many others. Typical applications in the food business has shown utility in monitoring the ripeness of a fruit, optimal fermentation, contamination issues and others that can't be communicated due to confidentiality.