2014 Ocean Exchange Registrant

1. A REAL TIME CONTINUOUS
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SENSOR PLATFORM
Economic, InSitu Measurement Tool

2. Lumense’s sensor platform supports, for the first time, an
ability to measure, affordably and in near real-time, in situ
chemical and microbial concentrations. It can serve as a
powerful tool for optimizing industrial and agricultural
production processes as well as understanding and solving
global environmental and sustainability challenges, including
those involving air and water quality, food safety, and the
health of natural resources. Key pieces of information needed
in the struggle toward sustainability are the current condition of
a resource or environment, the true composition of process
raw materials, finished goods, and waste streams, and the
amount of load being placed on an environment by process
outputs (i.e. pollutants).
A REAL TIME CONTINUOUS
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SENSOR PLATFORM

3. Since processes and environments are highly dynamic, this
information must be timely and abundant, or cause-to-effect
ties will be lost.
Lemense sensor plaform determines, continuously and almost
immediately, how much of a “target-of-interest” is present. It uses
optical interferometry to detect the way a chemical or biological
target in a flow of liquid (like water) or gas (like air) changes the
optical properties of a coating on a glass waveguide. The glass
waveguide is small, about two square centimeters in size, and is
made in a semiconductor foundry like most electronic circuits. It can
be made to include multiple interferometers. Each interferometer, if
covered with a different coating, is effectively a separate sensor, and
there can be far more than four on a waveguide.

4. To learn more about this and other innovative solutions
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The current market for
chemical and biological
sensors, sampling tools, and
analyzers exceeds $5 billion,
but is highly fragmented by
application and technology.
Lumense aims to revolutionize
this market, and to grow it
substantially, partly by
standardizing it.
Target markets include scores of industrial and agricultural
monitoring applications, water quality monitoring, indoor and
outdoor air quality monitoring, military and homeland security,
law enforcement, medical diagnostics, and public safety.