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One Silicon Chip Photonics (OSCP): High-Performance IMU for Autonomous Vehicles
“I realized the disadvantages of inertial sensors and knew there must be a better way to do things… Our sensors enable autonomous vehicle navigation accuracy, use 10x less power, and are up to 30x cheaper and 50x smaller.” For industrial drones, self-driving cars, and other autonomous vehicles, optical motion sensors on the market today […]
PreAct Technologies: Novel Sensing Technology for Safer Cars
“Any car that’s equipped with our sensors and edge processing will have a heads up that a crash is imminent, and the intelligence to deploy countermeasures to save lives and reduce injuries.” Despite advances in automotive safety technology, the number of car crashes, injuries, and deaths increase every year. While car crashes may be […]
Spotlight on Andluca Technologies: Making Glass Smarter and More Efficient
Smart glass solutions improve building energy efficiency and occupant comfort. But current products require external wiring, which means they can’t be integrated into most existing buildings. That’s a big problem. One that costs the U.S. billions each year in wasted energy. Luminate cohort 4 startup, Andluca Technologies, has designed a solution. Co-Founder and CEO, Nick […]
Spotlight on Infrascreen: Bringing Better Climate Control to Greenhouse Growers
High-tech greenhouses are the only way to grow fruits and vegetables without pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, but they use (and waste) a lot of energy. Infrascreen is on a mission to make fruits and veggies good for us and good for the planet, while helping high-tech greenhouses be more sustainable and profitable. Henri de Lalande, […]
Where Innovation Grows
Now at the half-way point of cohort 4, Luminate continues to build on the region’s legacy for innovation in optics, photonics, and imaging. Two companies from our portfolio have committed to creating nearly 120 jobs in the City of Rochester — SunDensity, $1 million recipient of cohort 3; and Circle Optics, $250,000 recipient of […]
Infrascreen: Filters for Greener Greenhouses
“With our filters, growers can increase profitability by up to 40%, which is a very compelling value proposition — especially because they’re buying something that they would already be buying.” We all want the fruits and vegetables we eat to be healthy for us and healthy for the planet. But even organic growers use […]
Dynocardia: A New Way to Measure Blood Pressure
“Everyone is used to hearing less than 120/80 as ‘normal’ blood pressure. But if you understood where your BP was throughout the day and night, it would be a much better predictor of your risks than this one number.” Occlusive arm-cuff devices have been the standard of care for measuring blood pressure (BP) for […]
Andluca Technologies: Solar Powered Smart Glass
“Over half the buildings that stand right now will still be in use in 2050. As you can imagine, it’s a lot harder to retrofit, improve, and upgrade existing buildings than it is to build an energy-efficient new one.” Buildings in the United States are responsible for more carbon emissions than most countries. Existing […]
Spotlight on Dynocardia: Changing the Way We Measure and Manage Blood Pressure
Even if you manage to get an accurate blood pressure reading from a cuff-based device, you only have a single measurement. Dynocardia, a startup in Luminate’s fourth cohort, came up with a fundamentally different way to measure blood pressure. Its ViTrack wrist wearable provides accurate, continuous BP monitoring. Founder and CEO of Dynocardia, Mohan Thanikachalam, […]
