AROMASENSORS - INNOVATION TROUGH LIGHT

AROMASENSORS Project: AUDAX Winner

AROMASENSORS project is the winner of the 1st edition of AUDAX Negócios à Prova.

Cork Oak: New Research

AROMASENSORS applied its method to the study of the cork oak, specially to the protection against the contamination of TCA (2-4-6-Tri-Cloro-Anisol) throughout all stages of production and distribution of the product. AROMASENSORS obtained very significant results and initiated the development of the new control method for the cork oak that will allow to detect quickly the contamination by TCA... (read more)

Biological Fruit: Research Cycle 2007

After the budding phase and before the beginning of the harvests of 2007 AROMASENSORS initiated the joint work with the producers of the biological fruit applying its method to establish more rigid norms to quality control of the fruit. The main attention is dedicated to the quality control of the fruit that grows in the proximity of the highways and the study of dependence between the quality of fruit and the altitude of the orchard where the fruit was created... (read more)

START: National Premium for Business

AROMASENSORS is one of the 8 finalists selected from 509 candidates to the National Start Premium of Business Innovation, organized by Microsoft, BPI and Universidade Nova de Lisboa... (read more)

EMPREENDA'06: Idea & Venture Event

AROMASENSORS is one of the companies selected to present its innovative project in Empreenda'06. Promoted by IAPMEI, to be held December 6th, 2006 at the Lisbon Congress Centre, is an Idea & Venture event that aims to put together venture capitalists and entrepreneurs having an excellent scientific, technological and management expertise presenting their fast growth business ideas. (read more)

TEMPERATURE & HUMIDITY Digital Sensors Available

AROMASENSORS presents new cost effective high precision hand-held Temperature & Humidity digital Sensors suitable for Agricultural, Food Industry, Wood Industry, Housebuilding Enterprises, Architect, Depot, Farmer, Housing Management and many others. We provide large range of the models applied to humidity control in industry and for home-use... (read more).

INFAIMON Partnership for upcoming challenges

AROMASENSORS and INFAIMON (Portugal) have started a technological partnership for the development of new instruments based on AROMASENSORS unique process of fruit quality monitoring through aroma luminescence. This new devices will incorporate INFAIMON components and will make use of this company expertise on artificial vision for the introduction of new features on AROMASENSORS instrumentation.

Articles/References

Fruit Fantastic (New Scientist)

Spectra Determine Fruit Ripeness (Photonics)

Red Luminescence of the Aroma of Fruits at Their Surface: Possible Interpretation (Colloides e Interfases)

About Visualization of the Aroma of Fruits (Sensors and Actuators)

Monitoring of the Aroma of Fruits at Their Surface by Luminescence (SpringerLink)

The worl'd first optical sensor to indicate the freshness of fruits by it's aroma

Monitoring of the fruit aroma provides fundamental knowledge to the food and agriculture industry at different levels. First of all, to producers, on the field, determination of harvesting optimal time is essential.

Secondly, in storage period, the product's quality can be evaluated by the application of our sensor. Storage optimal conditions can be determined non-destructively for each product in a small-fraction of a second.

The development for a pocket-size sensor for final consumer is in progress now. "Overripe fruits are misleading". This sensor will help with sorting between a visually appealing, tough overripe fruit, and a fruit in his optimal state of maturation.

Ripe fruit can be instantly recognised before tasting.

find more about it in our "Method" page >>

portable, precise, ultra-fast and extremely cost-efective!

Optoelectronic components of the portable equipment This is everything you'll ever need to monitor fruit ripeness in a small fraction of a second (the apple is optional).

The AROMASENSORS portable equipment provides an ultra-fast data capture on fruit maturation in vivo. It's now possible to collect data on fruit ripeness while the fruit is still on the tree. No more anticipated harvesting and consequently no more wasted space and money on storage.

The AROMASENSORS portable equipment is a strong breakthrough on agricultural and food industry stock management and is the result of 9 years of investigation and application in agriculture.

Developing an instrument based on aroma's luminescence sensor that can provide information on ripeness/maturation and visual control with correlation with sugar content and firmness. This equipment is ready for entering prototype construction phase

Development of a pocket-size ripeness sensor for consumer use.

last update at 26/12/2007