nanoLambda, digital nanotechnology company, announced the mass production start of NSP32, the world 1st nano spectrometer ready for noninvasive spectral sensing for a wide range of Internet of Things(IoT) after 12 year development. The size is smaller than the face of Lincoln on US penny coin. The maximum wavelength range is from 380nm to 1050nm with 1nm peak accuracy. Resolution is 10nm to 30nm. The first product comes out in three variations, NSP32V1 for visual range, NSP32N1 for near infrared range, and NSP32W1 for visual plus near infrared range. The output is digital and all necessary input optics are built-in with 120 degree wide field of view, making it easy-to-integrate into any IoT devices.
“Recently the interest on spectral sensing is rapidly growing, and markets are looking for compact and low cost spectrometer to be integrated into any kind of Internet of Things devices,” nanoLambda CEO Bill Choi said. “We anticipate the vertical market potentials for spectral sensing could become bigger than $100 billions and we see more and more big players jump into this untouched exponential opportunity. LED lighting for smart horticulture will be accurately monitored and controlled for quality and yield of produce. Food quality data will be easily collected and managed from farm to table. Water quality and air quality can be collected in micro grid scale nationwide. Personal health data can be collected noninvasively all day long. But most thrilling part would be the fact that yet unknown killer applications would come out suddenly from unexpected directions.”
Spectrometer technology itself is not new and has been used for several decades for various industries as a powerful and well proven analytical tool, but it was previously too bulky and expensive to use at a consumer scale. Naturally the compact and low cost spectrometer is the key market driver for much bigger new opportunities at Internet of Things, and many companies and research institutes across world have been working on the miniaturization using different types of technologies.
“There is an inherent limitation reducing the spectrometer size due to the diffraction limit of conventional optics, and mass production at low cost is not an easy task at all because such diffractive optics based technologies need hybrid integration of bulk optic components or multi-height multi-layer structures fabrication,” Bill Choi said. “We have overcome such mass production issues by monolithically integrating a thousand different encoded nano structures, all in a single layer, directly on CMOS detector array wafer, to separate a thousand different wavelengths. Then proprietary signal processing decodes spectrum shapes accurately from the noise-like nano outputs. The performance is comparable to the expensive commercial spectrometer’s performance.”
nanoLambda just opened an online store for sample purchase and is working on an early adopter community for collaboration to innovate together towards applications and data-based service development. More information on NSP32 and access to the software development kit is available at https://nanolambda.myshopify.com.
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About nanoLambda
nanoLambda Inc., a Korea company, is the 1st mover in the $100 billion spectral sensing for IoT. Since founded in 2005, nanoLamda has committed to develop spectral sensing platform for personal and everyday applications. The first product is nano spectrometer and the next product will be the snapshot multispectral imager. For more information or questions, go to www.nanolambda.net