Past Projects
Projects for Semester 2 AY2025/2026
Exciting projects in Semester 2. The following companies have confirmed their Participation
- Endress+Hauser: Explore market opportunities for BioSense
- Igloo: Explore new applications for Igloo’s Technologies
- Resmed: Explore new opportunities for Resmed’s technologies
- Sigmawave AI: Explore new and innovative applications for Sigmawave AI’s technologies.
Endress+Hauser
Explore Market Opportunities and Applications for E+H’s innovative automated PCR-based solutions for hygiene monitoring
Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. We provide process solutions for flow, level, pressure, analytics, temperature, recording and digital communications, optimizing processes in terms of economic efficiency, safety and environmental impact. Our customers come from various industries, including chemical, food & beverage, life sciences, power & energy, primaries & metal, oil & gas and water & wastewater.
In 2021 , Endress+Hauser founded a joint venture company – Endress+Hauser BioSense GmbH. This joint venture explores new innovative PCR-based solutions for molecular-biological process monitoring and hygiene testing in the hygienic industries.
Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. We provide process solutions for flow, level, pressure, analytics, temperature, recording and digital communications, optimizing processes in terms of economic efficiency, safety and environmental impact. Our customers come from various industries, including chemical, food & beverage, life sciences, power & energy, primaries & metal, oil & gas and water & wastewater. In 2021 we founded a joint venture company – Endress+Hauser BioSense GmbH. This joint venture explores new innovative PCR-based solutions for molecular-biological process monitoring and hygiene testing in the hygienic industries.
The solution is designed to detect and monitor the amount of biological contamination in food products like beer. This innovative PCR test methods reduces the current food testing requirements from 1-2 days to 1hr without the need of testing laboratories or specifically trained personnel. This is similar to the current PCR swab testing kits for Covid virus tests.
Endress+Hauser (E+H) is looking to identify market opportunities and applications for these innovative solutions in Singapore and South East Asia.
For more details visit: https://www.endress.com/en/endress-hauser-group/endresshauser-at-a-glance/related-companies/Endress-Hauser-BioSense-GmbH/endress-hauser-biosense-technology-portfolio
Opportunity sought:
Endress+Hauser (E+H) is looking to identify market opportunities and applications for its Automated PCR analysis from sample to result
The Endress+Hauser Analysis System simplifies the entire lab workflow from sample to result. It combines the universal Device BAB00 with application-specific Kits and enables automated DNA/RNA extraction, multiplex PCR and data analysis in a compact format.
Some of the questions that the team will be looking at are:
- Which industry, and what customers would be interested to have this solution which would fit their requirements?
- Look into which business sectors would be the most attractive to maximize the best returns in the shortest period of time.
- Are there any other un-explored areas that this solution could be used in?
- Explore the possible product costing and to market pricing – by comparing the current testing methods and the cost-to benefit of adopting such a new PCR technology for food hygiene.
- What further innovations need to happen to make it a viable opportunity in these new areas?
- What are the potential business models?
E+H representatives will be available to provide feedback and validate ideas.
Company representative:
KC Ng, Industry Manager, Marketing Department
Anyone interested in this area. Industry knowledge (FSB, LSI e.g ) would be a plus.
More information:
igloo
Exploring new applications that can benefit from the ability to effortlessly provision access & track the right person/object/asset at the right time
igloo (www.igloocompany.co) provides smart access solutions to customers around the world. It began as a way to make key handovers easier for Airbnb hosts and has since evolved into managing access for both consumer and enterprise customers.
For the last 8 years, we’ve been capitalizing on the success of our AlgoPin technology that is core and unique to our devices. This feature has allowed us to win over competition, deploying over 500,000 devices globally.
Every customer of igloo has the choice of three software platforms: igloohome, iglooworks, or integration solutions. igloohome is our consumer mobile app, where we allow our customers to manage locks on the go using their account details, having access to all our free features. iglooworks is our enterprise management dashboard with a role-based mobile app, allowing business customers to perform more tasks at scale. Lastly, we also have integration platforms, known as iglooconnect and iglooaccess. iglooconnect is a marketplace for any 3rd party services linked to our locks (ie. Airbnb), and iglooaccess is our API/SDK portal.
Our customers now include: home-owners, retail and institutional landlords, property managers, boutique hotel/co-living operators, short-term rental hosts, and other sharing economy applications. Customers current pay for hardware directly or via our distribution network, and we collect ongoing software fees where applicable.
All our software features are based on our proprietary firmware stack that we’ve built – which includes BLE, LTE-M, AlgoPIN, Custom PIN, RFID, and Biometric. Our newest core tech addition to the tech expands on forms of digital keys, namely app-less NFC and algo-QR. The company believes this will allow more application to be built on top to tackle even larger market opportunities.
Opportunity sought:
igloocompany would like the team to investigate what are some potential new markets, technologies and business models that could be a natural fit. As much as possible, the focus should be on the new addition to the tech stack.
Some of the questions that the team will be looking at are:
- What other markets can benefit from these new features?
- Of all the markets, which would present the most opportunity for the company?
- What type to hardware + software solution would be needed to make the new opportunity a viable business?
- What are the potential business models?
igloocompany representatives will be available to provide feedback and validate ideas.
Company representatives:
Best Haputpong
VP, Corporate Development
Recommended team composition:
Anyone interested in this area. Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Business, Sales & Marketing etc
More information:
ResMed
Explore new and innovative application for Resmed’s patented technologies in PAP therapy.
https://www.resmed.sg/about-us
ResMed was founded in 1989 in Australia by Peter C. Farrell (PhD). Peter’s initial goal was to bring continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, from the lab-prototype stage developed by Dr Colin Sullivan under Baxter International Inc.’s Australian research centre to a scalable device production and global distribution. This early development of the CPAP therapy became the corner stone for the gold standard for the treatment of Sleep Apnoea today.
Today, ResMed is the world leader for Sleep Health solutions with a strong focus on the innovations in Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) Therapy. This contributes to ResMed’s strong reputation and success in this field.
ResMed’s success in PAP therapy comes from combining smart adaptive algorithms, patient comfort engineering, digital connectivity & monitoring, and an ecosystem approach (device + mask + tubing + coaching) that moves PAP therapy beyond “just blowing air”. These elements together increase real-world effectiveness by improving both the physiological efficacy and the behavioural & adherence side of therapy.
Opportunity sought:
Explore new and innovative application for Resmed’s patented technologies in PAP therapy. The team can choose on a single technology, or combination of them.
Some of the questions that the team will be looking at are:
- What are the problems that could potentially be solved by applying this technology?
- What are the potential market areas that this technology can be applied to?
- What are the further innovations or considerations needed to make it viable in these other areas?
- What are the potential business models?
- How will the technical and business viability be assessed and validated?
Company representative:
Lee Deng Siong, Senior Engineering Manager
Leicester Chia, Engineering Manager
This opportunity requires students to have a foundational understanding of Mechanical, Electrical or System Engineering, and Data Science to ensure the proposed project is feasible. Having some knowledge of the various discipline of Engineering will enable students to explore practical ways to integrate the existing technology into an alternative functional system. Familiarity with Data Science will help students analyze market trends and inform design decisions using data-driven techniques.
We are looking for students who are self-motivated, innovative, and unafraid to take risks or learn from failure!
More information:
Sigmawave AI
Explore new and innovative applications for Sigmawave AI’s technologies: 3D Synthetic Precision: Scaling Global Computer Vision AI
Sigmawave AI is APAC’s first and still the only full-stack visual synthetic data platform. Based in Singapore, the core competency is 3D Synthetic Precision, generating hyper-realistic 3D visual data to accelerate AI development.
This capability is specifically designed to tackle edge cases, underrepresented use cases, and tough problems that usual video analytics solution providers cannot solve, fundamentally disrupting the data label and annotation industry by providing perfect, programmatic data. This makes the platform ideal for high-stakes scenarios and serves established markets like Public Sector and Smart Cities, solving critical issues related to poor data quality and privacy constraints.
Opportunity sought:
Explore new and innovative applications for Sigmawave AI’s technologies.
Key Exploration Questions:
- Problem Focus: High-Value Disruption
- What are the specific, high-stakes data problems across any relevant commercial sector that only Sigmawave AI’s 3D Synthetic Precision can solve? (Focus on critical edge cases, severe data scarcity, and regulatory constraints).
- Market Focus: New Use Cases
- Beyond current markets (Defence & Security), what are three specific, underrepresented use cases for our 3D Synthetic Precision that show the highest potential for disruption and rapid scaling in the Industrial, Automotive, or broader Commercial sectors?
- Business Focus: Revenue Innovation
- What are two innovative business models (beyond platform licensing) that leverage our hyper-scale VSD generation (e.g., subscription, foundry, partnership models) to maximize revenue and capture new market value?
Company representative:
Dan Lim, Founder & CEO
Joshua Koh, CTO
Recommended Team Composition:
Open to anyone interested across engineering and science disciplines. Knowledge in video analytics and AI is a strong plus. Business acumen is also beneficial
More information: