Projects for Semester 2 AY2024/2025
Exciting projects in Semester 2. The following companies have confirmed their Participation
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- ArmasTec: Exploring opportunities for fabric-based exoskeletons
- Curium:Exploring market opportunities for People Tracking, Behaviour and Crowd Analytics
- Endress+Hauser: Explore Market Opportunities and Applications for E+H’s Process Analytical Measurement solutions in Biotechnology and Life Sciences
- HP :Explore market opportunities for Small Microfluidic Channels using Inkjet Technology in food, water treatment and healthcare
- IglooCo: Exploring new applications that can benefit from the ability to effortlessly provision access & track the right person/object/asset at the right time
Please run through the projects list and register your interest via this link: Selection of Projects.
Watch the recording of the IEL Info-Session on Jan 6th 2025 at 6.30 pm to find out more about the course and the company projects as well as to hear from past graduates
Exploring opportunities for fabric-based exoskeletons.
ArmasTec is a developer of soft fabric exoskeletons for reducing the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, aimed at improving quality of life and increasing sustainability of the workforce. Despite widespread automation, manual labour is still required in various operations due to space or dexterity constraints, leading to increased incidences of work-related musculoskeletal disorders such as lower back injuries. Based on information from the US National Safety Council and the US Department of Labor & Statistics, it is estimated that lower back pain can cost a company of 1000 workers up to SGD 2.2 million per year due to lost productivity and direct healthcare costs.
To tackle this, ArmasTec has developed the AireLevate Logistics exosuit, designed to help reduce strain and fatigue in the lower back, thereby reducing the risk of lower back injuries. The fabric-based exosuit uses compressed air and soft artificial muscles to help support the torso and push it back up when the user bends over, making a 20kg load feel like only 10kg on your lower back. For more information, visit https://www.armastec.com.
The Airelevate Logistics exosuit has already seen success in the manufacturing and hotel industries, such as Strategic Marine and Park Royal, where it is helping shipyard workers and housekeeping staff respectively to protect their lower backs when moving heavy items.
Opportunity sought:
ArmasTec would like to identify potential opportunities for our soft exoskeleton technologies. The product has already been released with success in Singapore in the manufacturing and hotel industries. As we are looking to expand our reach, we would like to explore opportunities in other industries in Singapore, as well as in US and Europe.
Some of the questions that the team will be looking at are:
- Other than the lower back, what other joints/body parts would benefit the most from support from a soft exoskeleton for customers in the manufacturing, construction, and repair and maintenance industries? What would the solution look like?
- Note that the solution for the exosuits should not include large rigid parts and ideally no metal parts. Any electronics should be removable so that the exosuit can be washed.
- What is the potential for a sensorised suit (for monitoring activities such as number of lifts, non-ergonomic posture etc) for these same industries?
- What would the return on investment (ROI) be for these two solutions and how can it be calculated/maximized?
- What would the return on investment (ROI) be for these two solutions and how can it be calculated/maximized?
- What would be their barriers to adoption?
- What are the potential new business models?
ArmasTec Representatives will be available to provide feedback and validate ideas.
Company representatives:
Sam Hoh, Sr Design & Development Engineer
Rainier Natividad, CEO, Founder
Recommended team composition:
All who are interested in this area. Students can be from all disciplines
More information:
Exploring market opportunities for People Tracking, Behaviour and Crowd Analytics
Curium Pte Ltd, established in April 2020, is a deep-tech start-up specialising in automated calibration technology for the Automotive, IoT and Industry 4.0 verticals. Curium is also a finalist for the Emerging Enterprise Award 2024.
Smart Cities rely on various sensor technologies to perceive the world around them. Curium deploys AI and ML to automate the processing of the data to bring value to smart city operators as well as make their systems ultrareliable and ultra-accurate.
CuSense, Curium’s proprietary technology, fuses inputs from different sensors such as cameras, lidars (light detecting and ranging) and radars. CuTrack powered by CuSense allows for the monitoring of complicated public or industrial environments, by tracking assets such as humans, boxes, vehicles and raw materials. It’s cutting-edge machine vision solution leverages the accuracy of LiDAR sensors to detect and track objects with pinpoint accuracy
It also creates a live digital twin of the surroundings, including elements such as walls, partitions and aisles. This digital model is automatically updated when new structures are created or removed.
In short, CuTrack combines LiDAR technology, advanced analytics, and Digital Twin simulations to enhance the management of public spaces, focusing on privacy and efficiency while improving user satisfaction through informed insights and predictive capabilities.
More information can be found here: https://curium.sg/
Opportunity sought:
Curium is looking to identify potential opportunities for it’s multi-faceted platform for seamless sensor deployments and data analysis in the urban environment
They would like to explore opportunities in Europe, Southeast Asia and the Gulf region.
Some questions that the team will be looking at are:
- What are the key trends of the crowd analytics industry, including its market size, growth potential, trends, and challenges? What are the pain points or needs of the industry?
- What are the untapped market opportunities for people tracking, behaviour and in crowd analytics? Who could be the potential customers?
- What would the solution look like?
- What further innovations, if any. would need to happen to make them viable in these new areas.
- Who would be relevant industry partners and alliances?
- What are the potential business models?
Curium representatives will be available to provide feedback and validate ideas.
Company representative:
Dr Ali Hasnain, Founder & CEO
Sanjay Thakur, VP Engineering
Recommended team composition:
Anyone interested in this area. The ideal team should include Computer Scientists, Data Scientists, Business and Finance preferred. Students can be from all disciplines.
More information:
Explore Market Opportunities and Applications for E+H’s Process Analytical Measurement solutions in Biotechnology and Life Sciences
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.
Endress+Hauser (E+H) is looking to identify market opportunities for its Process Analytical solutions (e.g optical and liquid analysis sensors) in Singapore in the areas of life sciences and precision medicine.
E+H provides the following sensors and solutions for optical and liquid analysis:
Optical Analysis: Raman spectroscopy provides the chemical specificity of mid-infrared (IR) spectroscopy and the sampling simplicity of near-IR spectroscopy. By operating in the visible or near-IR spectral region, Raman spectroscopy allows vibrational spectra to be collected in situ, using fiber-coupled probes, without sample purging, and without the use of specialty sampling devices. Click on the link below to find out more about the analyzer:
Its application includes:
- Chemical: reaction monitoring, blending, catalysis investigations
- Pharmaceutical: API reaction monitoring, crystallization, polymorph
- Biopharmaceutical: bioprocess monitoring and control, PAT/QbD applications, cell culture, fermentation, downstream operations, cGLP/cGMP compatible
- Food & Beverage: Mapping of meats and fish, fermentation, reaction monitoring
Liquid Analysis: Memosens pH, Conductivity, ORP (Oxidation reduction potential):
Memosens converts the measured value to a digital signal and transfers it to the transmitter without a contacting connection. Non-contact, inductive signal transmission ensures high process and data integrity. They offer extended storage of calibration and process data, enabling better trend identification and providing a future-proof basis for predictive maintenance and enhanced IIoT services. The links below provide information about these sensors
These optical and liquid analysis solutions are ideal for Hygienic and sterile applications such as:
- Biotech and pharma industries
- Bioreactors/fermenters: process control in enzyme production, control of culture growth
- Biotechnology industries
- Life sciences
- Precision Medicine
Scaling up of Precision Medicine is a new area of interest where the medicine prescribed could be tailored to your genetic makeup. Endress+Hauser would like to support the possibility of scaling up in Precision Medicine through continuous process monitoring and contribute to making precision medicine more affordable. This indirectly helps the public to have more access to Precision Medicine
Opportunity sought:
Endress+Hauser (E+H) is looking to identify market opportunities for its Process Analytical solutions (e.g optical and liquid analysis sensors) in Singapore in the areas of life sciences and precision medicine.
Some of the questions that the team will be looking at are:
- What are the pain points & needs of the life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and precision medicine manufacturing that would help them scale up if addressed?
- In which areas of the process would customers find these solutions applicable? Which customer group would be interested in this solution that would fit their requirements?
- Look into which business sectors would be the most attractive to maximize the best returns in the shortest period.
- What other real-time measuring parameters would this precision medicine area need?
- 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:
Derek Chan, Industry Manager – Light Industry, Marketing Department
Anyone interested in this area. The ideal team should include individuals with science, technology, engineering, backgrounds. Students can be from all disciplines
More information:
Explore market opportunities for Small Microfluidic Channels using Inkjet Technology in food, water treatment and healthcare
HP is a global technology company that operates in more than 170 countries. Through our portfolio of printers, PCs, 3D printers, mobile devices, solutions, and services, we engineer experiences that amaze.
The technological basis of inkjet printing, one of HP’s cornerstone businesses, is Active Microfluidics. Microsecond-long electrical pulses sent through micron-size resistors release large amounts of thermal energy within very small volumes and vaporize surrounding fluid. Those vapor bubbles, expanding, expel ink droplets through microscale nozzles. The droplets collectively form an image on paper.
The same thermal vapor bubbles can be repurposed to perform other useful functions: push fluids through micron-wide channels, mix fluids in microscale chambers, block flow in selected spots, switch flow between different outputs, locally heat fluids, and more. Importantly, all these devices can be integrated together with densities of 10-100 devices per mm2. Additionally, HP has developed scalable ways to deliver multiple fluids from macroscopic containers to any point in the system.
This article explains how Inkjet technology can be used in various ways: Inkjets Are for More Than Just Printing
Opportunity sought:
Recent advancements in our technology have enabled the development of highly precise microchannels ranging from 3 to 50 micrometers, capable of managing up to 10 input fluids. We have successfully demonstrated its ability to trap bacteria in laboratory settings.
Considering the potential applications in the food, water treatment, and healthcare industries, several questions arise:
- What applications can be unlocked through the deployment of this technology, and how might it contribute to societal and global improvement?
- What is the structure of the value chain for this innovation? Does the value primarily lie in components, devices, integrated solutions, consumables, services, or a combination of these elements?
- What additional advancements or strategic partnerships would be necessary to fully realize the vision for this innovation?
- What are the potential business models?
Constraints:
- Time to market < 2 years.
- Only in food, water treatment and healthcare industry
HP representatives will be available to provide feedback and validate ideas.
Company representatives:
Glenn Zeng, NPI Engineer
Wang Peiyun, Project Manager
New Product Development and Introduction, Microfluidic Technology and Operation , HP
Recommended team composition:
Anyone interested in this area. The ideal team should include individuals with science or engineering backgrounds. Cross-disciplinary skills are ideal
More information:
This article explains how Inkjet technology can be used in various ways: Inkjets Are for More Than Just Printing
Current Focus:
- Media Printing (https://www.hp.com/us-en/printers/home-printers.html, https://www.hp.com/us-en/industrial-digital-presses.html, https://www.hp.com/us-en/commercial-printers/graphic-arts.html)
- 3D Printing (https://www.hp.com/us-en/printers/3d-printers.html)
- Life Science Micro Dispensing (https://www.hp.com/us-en/specialty-printing-solutions/life-science-dispensing.html#tab=d300e)
- Cell Viability https://www.hp.com/sg-en/hp-labs.html
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: