The Ram Group has launched what it’s calling ‘quantum sensor technology’, as a competitor to silicone-based sensors.
The technology, which might sound like something out of Dr Who, has been created following eight years of development which has seen the firm perfecting its quantum sensing technology, which it claims is a ‘post-silicon era solution to any enterprise aiming to bring advanced diagnostics capabilities to the healthcare industry or any IoT innovation across sectors’.
According to the business, silicon based sensors can currently tell us ‘what’ with regards to physical phenomenon, Quantum sensors are the sensors of ‘why’ and can analyse exponentially deeper analytics. Ram’s sensing tech uses GaN (gallium nitride) in addition to a set of proprietary materials that create a sensor over one million times more sensitive in signal-to-noise ratio than anything currently in the market, enabling use cases ranging from telehealth for minimally invasive diagnostics and novel wearable devices, to a new range of physical phenomenon sensing IoT devices with powerful data assets.
For example, its Home Health sensors include a Single Point Monitoring sensor that tracks continuous blood pressure, EKG with a novel signal, atrial and ventricular pressures, heart rate variability, and temperature without using electrodes and also includes a Smart Urinalysis application that can analyse nutrition, metabolics and allergies, for example. The introduction of the quantum hardware will enable more robust machine learning and artificial intelligence by providing a range and depth of data previously inaccessible.
Apparently these sensors can be produced at one tenth the cost of silicon-based chips.
"Quantum sensors such as Ram Group's have the potential to transform entire industries across healthcare, oil and gas, industry, defence, communications and aerospace. Novel data economies as well as basic scientific insights in physics that will drive further innovations are possible due to Ram Group's sensors. The impact over the next decade will save lives as well as transform our economy," said Dr. Jody Ranck, EVP global strategy, Ram Group.