Grants and Contributions

Develop digital game card merging functionalities (and their effects).

As part of the international consortium project “FVS II”, this project will focus on the development of the Fusion Vision System (FVS), a durable augmented reality platform engineered for the firefighting profession. This system contains many functions such as thermal imaging, enhanced visibility features, live video streaming capabilities, and integrated sensor technology. The FVS is designed with the North American market in mind.

This project aims to enhance the overall software usability, with a particular emphasis on refining the UI elements for better alignment with Japanese user preferences. Additionally, this revision seeks to improve the hardware design, broadening its functional versatility for users, including full AR helmet integration, and a full-seal design for better performance in the extreme temperature environments.

The development of Flowie-U, an externally mounted ultrasonic water flow monitoring device that communicates using the LoRaWAN radio protocol. This will address some market barriers that currently exist with Flowie-O, such as water meter incompatibility, concerns with city utilities, difficult radio environments at some water meter locations and electromagnetic noise clouding water meter signal. Adoption of LoRaWAN will make Alert Labs’ products bidirectionally compatible with the wider ecosystem of LoRaWAN devices thus enabling adoption of more 3rd party solutions to accelerate our service offering while reducing supply chain risks associated with the single source solutions of our current proprietary radio protocol.

Develop robust support tools in franchise and association management.

This project aims to gather insights and establish connections that could facilitate expansion efforts in foreign markets.

To find, test, and perfect different techniques in order to find the best commercial method(s) of producing faux “meats” and faux “cheese”; and plant-based baked goods.

This project aims to develop a low-cost module-level product consisting of a gasket with pre-built acoustic channels so that customers can easily drop-in the enterprise directional microphones into their end product, without having to design the acoustic channels themselves. It is imperative that the design is cost-effective, so that it can be more easily adopted by customers in a cost-competitive environment. Successful completion will help the enterprise reduce its time to market and drive early revenue and growth.

The project purpose is to create a smart solar module for residential applications. The solar module will remove the need for external electronic components such as DC optimizers, inverters, diodes, and rapid shutdown devices. By integrating the external components, overall system reliability is improved, as well as reducing installation time and maintenance costs. Equally important, the integrated solar module harvests more solar energy under typical lighting conditions.

The enterprise has developed a first-class, patent protected technology platform to produce human neuromuscular junction-on-a-chip. The technology has been validated by a leading pharmaceutical company to accelerate toxicity and efficacy tests leading to regulatory approval of two new therapeutic candidates. The FDA is collaborating to qualify this cutting-edge chip technology as a drug discovery tool to replace animal-based toxicity assays. The successful integration of the technology will directly impact drug development and toxicity testing, enhancing the FDA's regulatory processes, reviews, laboratory responses, and will significantly contribute in fortifying public health and biodefense readiness.

Super Chatbot – An AI powered chatbot that connects to a car dealerships Inventory Management System (IMS) & general knowledge base to replace a full-time customer service agent and business development center (BDC) rep. This product will be offered as a B2B software to assist independent & franchise car dealerships. The chatbot can receive primary & secondary goals from the dealer and will take actions in its communication to accomplish these goals. Through natural language, it can recommend vehicles in the dealer inventory, answer commonly asked questions (working hours, locations, inventory availability), schedule test drives & appointments.