INTELLIGENT OPTICAL SYSTEMS, INC. — Department of Agriculture SBIR Phase I: 8.3

INTELLIGENT OPTICAL SYSTEMS, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Agriculture.

Amount
$99,993
Agency
Department of Agriculture
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
8.3
NAICS
Place of performance
CA
Period
2016-07-15 → 2018-01-14

Description

To ensure that livestock housing environments meet air-quality requirements without over-ventilation, which burdens growers with unnecessarily high energy costs, Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) is developing an optical-based ammonia sensor module for enclosed livestock housing air monitoring (Air-Sense). The proposed platform, building on our prior successful sensor development, will cost-effectively match ventilation with ammonia levels. This work will also contribute to a stronger understanding of livestock housing environments that will enable the development of additional gas sensing capabilities.