Japanese sensor tech startup ‘Ball Wave’ will participate in ‘CES 1’, the world’s largest IT and home appliance exhibition, opening in Las Vegas, USA on January 5 (local time).
Ballwave is a company that has continuously accumulated expertise in the field of sound wave sensing technology since its establishment in 2015. Ballwave explains that it has been conducting active research and development through industry-academia cooperation with Tohoku University located in Sendai, Japan, and through this, has succeeded in developing the ‘Ball SAW Sensor’, its representative technology and product.
At this CES, Ballwave will introduce ‘Sylph’, an environmental analyzer that boasts the industry’s smallest and lightest standards. This is a product that detects acoustic waves on the surface of a spherical sensor and performs immediate on-site environmental assessment anytime, anywhere. It is based on the ‘gas chromatography (GC)’ technique that separates and analyzes volatile and semi-volatile compounds from mixtures.
Sylph, developed in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Ballwave, boasts its own ball sensor measurement method and accuracy, and the power required for operation is only 20/1th of that of other GC-type measuring instruments. This is Ballwave’s explanation. Based on these advantages, Silph also won the Innovation Award in the mobile device and accessory category at this CES.
A Ballwave official said, “While the GC measuring instruments commercialized on the market to date have been products with specifications at least the size of a refrigerator, our Silph has been miniaturized to the size of a palm through a 3.3mm diameter crystal sphere sensor.” At the same time, it can operate on mobile battery power, so GC measurements can be performed anytime, anywhere.”
Shingo Akao, founder and CEO of Ballwave, said, “This small, powerful sensor can be used as the ‘nose’ of a robot to detect environmental hazards, yeast in food, and even disease-causing bacteria and viruses.” , “I am pleased to be able to present products and vision that will contribute to advancing human life to the next level at this CES,” he said.
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