Innovation Anthology #432:
Edmonton company Wilson Analytical Services Inc has developed new technology that takes the lab right into the oil field. It’s a user friendly hardened fluorescent spectrometer. And if it’s not exactly a lab on a chip, it’s certainly a lab in a suitcase.
Company president Dr. Ken Schmidttoffers this description.
DR KEN SCHMIDT: We using pelican style case and all of the equipment you need to run it, including a little netbook computer that runs the software. It all fits in the case. And it even comes with a GPS unit that attaches to the computer as well so that when you are out in the field, you get the location, time and date that you took the samples. And in fact, the software is set up like a laboratory notebook so you don’t actually have to take any paper notes at all. It’s all done on elecroically, and you can print out reports of the answers.
Ken Schmidt got help from an Alberta Innovation Voucher and through ACAMP, the Alberta Centre for Advanced Micro Nano Technology Products, to perfect a new light source in building the fluorescent spectrometer.
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