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With mounting concerns regarding the environmental and health impacts of conventional chemical pesticides, there is a noticeable shift towards biological alternatives. This trend is fueled by a global demand for sustainable agricultural practices and safer, more environmentally-friendly produce. However, a significant challenge persists: the comparatively lower efficacy of biological pesticides. This technology addresses the challenge of low efficacy in biological pesticides, often caused by environmental factors such as heat, UV exposure, and runoffs, especially prevalent in tropical regions. It utilises plant-derived, biodegradable materials to encapsulate the biological pesticides, protecting them from environmental factors, thereby extending their residual treatment effect and reducing usage volumes and re-application frequencies.  Plant-derived, biodegradable encapsulation material Compatible with commercialised biological pesticides (e.g., bacillus thuringiensis) Simple, one-step encapsulation process completed within 15 minutes using existing mixing apparatus Compatible with existing application equipment such as backpack sprayers and drones Imparts rainfastness within 1 hour Sustains residual effect for up to 3 months per treatment The technology demonstrates versatility, with potential applicability in tackling an array of agricultural challenges such as diseases, weeds, and nutrient deficiencies. It is also applicable for commercialised insecticides such as chlorantraniliprole and imidacloprid. Tailored to address challenges specific to tropical agriculture Enhances efficacy of biological pesticides Reduces biological pesticide consumption Lowers re-application frequencies, minimising costs and labor requirements agriculture, agritech, agrifood tech, agrifoodtech, food security, climate change, encapsulation, agrochemical, crop care, crop protection, herbicide, insecticide, fertiliser, fertilizer, pesticide, fungicide, bagworm, delivery technology, precision delivery, delivery, farming solution, foliar spray, biologicals, bacillus, bio, bio-based, bacteria, fungi Chemicals, Agrochemicals, Life Sciences, Agriculture & Aquaculture, Additives, Bio-based, Sustainability, Food Security

With the increasing number of at-risk pregnancies and the limitation of the care delivery system, it becomes urgent to find a reliable solution that addresses technology, cost and care delivery challenges. Forging new frontiers in pregnancy care, the technology provider has developed a solution comprising a comprehensive remote monitoring suite for obstetrics care. The technology is a turnkey and modular virtual maternity care solution that enables the digitalization of existing antenatal and postnatal protocols. The technology allows the care team to deliver risk-specific care to pregnant mothers in the comfort of their homes through a patient mobile app and an array of connected monitoring devices, including a proprietary home use fetal and maternal monitor. The technology provider is looking to engage relevant stakeholders for collaboration to support their research projects and their global commercialization journey. The technology is a unique and comprehensive remote monitoring suite for obstetrics using novel sensors and algorithms to offer clinical-grade, self-monitoring of fetal and maternal heart rates, and contractions to improve access to care for expectant women. The technology comprises the combination of a proprietary fetal monitor with a mobile application that offers customizable questionnaires and is connected to BP monitors and glucometers. Clinicians can gain essential insights into the health status of the mother and foetus while offering expectant women quality care at the comfort of their homes. This also provides more convenience and better information about their pregnancy. The technology delivers multiple benefits to stakeholders such as: New sensing technology for the foetus that eliminates subjectivity in standard technology (CTG) while providing higher resolution data to detect early signs of pregnancy complications A holistic and protocol-driven remote monitoring platform that offers comprehensive features has been essential for clinicians as women across the risk spectrum can now be monitored remotely Easy to use platform offering greater usability and deployment capabilities A cost-effective maternity care to streamline the maternity care process This technology can be applied in Women and Baby’s Health for: Connected Prenatal and post-natal care Fetal medicine Powering Decentralized Clinical trials The maternity system can provide data-driven care to improve maternity outcomes and minimize the risk of complications while reducing the cost of care. Further, the technology is patient-centric where it empowers expectant women with easy-to-use tools to access convenient, engaging and personalized care. Telehealth, medical device, digital health Healthcare, Medical Devices, Telehealth, Medical Software & Imaging

Unsafe and contaminated food poses significant global health risks, affecting approximately one in ten people worldwide and leading to economic losses of around $110 billion annually in low and middle-income countries due to reduced productivity and medical expenses. This issue also accounts for an annual burden of 33 million disability-adjusted life years and causes about 420,000 premature deaths. Additionally, the escalating use of pesticides in food production to meet the demands of a growing population contributes to approximately 200,000 deaths each year due to toxic exposure, posing severe threats to both human health and the environment.  This technology, Plasma Activated Water (PAW) provides an eco-friendly, chemical-free decontamination technique which eradicates residual chemicals, inhibiting microbial growth in agricultural produce. The technology is highly effective (95% reliability) in breaking down organic compounds, including pesticides, and destroying microbial pathogens on the surfaces of fruits and vegetables, resulting in an extended shelf-life.  PAW eliminates the need for potentially toxic chemicals for washing, minimizes chemical residues, reducing environmental impact and agricultural losses, thereby lowering costs. It effectively degrades pesticides, enhancing food safety while maintaining nutritional quality and sensory qualities.   The technology owner is seeking collaborations with agricultural companies or Institutes of Higher Learning to test-bed their technology.  Plasma Activated Water (PAW) is an innovative technology that harnesses the reactive properties of plasma to enhance the characteristics of water. The process involves generating an electrical discharge in a gaseous environment, creating a plasma rich in reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS). The use of pin-hole technology allows for precise and controlled plasma generation at the required intensity and location. This technique involves creating a small, focused plasma jet through a pin-hole or narrow aperture, which directs the plasma stream accurately to the target area. This precision ensures effective application, reducing the risk of unintended exposure and increasing treatment efficacy. The focused nature of the plasma jet also minimizes diffusion, resulting in more efficient energy use and lower operational costs. The reactive species interact with the surface of agricultural produce, they effectively deactivate or destroy pathogens, bacteria, and pesticide residues. PAW technology significantly enhances food safety by reducing contaminants in produce by over 50-80%, compared to just 30% with standard water washes.  This technology has the potential to transcend agricultural applications, harnessing its pathogen- and bacteria-destroying capabilities.  Healthcare and Medical Sector: Can be used to irrigate wounds, leveraging its strong antimicrobial properties to clean and disinfect wound sites, promoting faster healing and preventing infections Industrial Wastewater Treatment: To treat industrial wastewater by breaking down pollutants and pathogens, ensuring that the treated water meets environmental regulations  Superior Decontamination Efficiency: Highly Effective: PAW technology significantly reduces contaminants, achieving over 50-80% reduction in pathogens and pesticide residues compared to just 30% with standard water washes. Its decontamination efficiency stands at 95% reliability Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Action: PAW effectively eliminates a wide range of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi, providing comprehensive protection Eco-Friendly and Chemical-Free: Minimized Chemical Use: Unlike traditional methods that rely heavily on chemical disinfectants, PAW uses plasma to activate water, significantly reducing the need for potentially harmful chemicals Harmless Byproducts: The reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS) generated by PAW break down into harmless byproducts, such as water and nitrogen, making it environmentally friendly Environment, Clean Air & Water, Sanitisation, Foods, Quality & Safety, Sustainability, Food Security

With the advent of the intelligent era, data has become the core asset of enterprises. Simultaneously, remote work and multi-branch collaboration have emerged as new work modes. Many enterprises urgently need a cybersecurity solution that can ensure data security and improve work efficiency to deliver quality services and enhance competitiveness. Traditional enterprise security measures impose various restrictions on employees’ use of software and hardware and limit access to third-party partners, such as prohibiting access to personal computers and requiring the installation of multiple access endpoints. These restrictions generate several problems to the enterprises, such as complex usage, inadequate security defense capabilities, and high operating costs. To address these issues, the technology owner has launched an innovative enterprise security browser designed to solve security challenges in remote work and multi-location collaboration while optimizing the employee working experience. This enterprise security browser features a lightweight design, is easy to install, and seamlessly integrates into employee workflows without requiring modifications to existing software and hardware. Additionally, it employs a series of dynamic security strategies to enable find grain control over data leakage and user privacy protection, achieving effective and intelligent enterprise data security management. The technology owner is actively seeking partnership with companies with multiple employee identities in the financial and internet sectors, to co-develop and deploy this innovative enterprise security browser. Such collaboration will enable both parties to push the frontiers of data security and offering robust support for the digital transformation of enterprises. This innovative browser, built on Chromium and deeply integrated with a zero-trust safety classifier, prioritizes both safety and efficiency, significantly improving the user experience and employee performance and enhancing the data security protection loop in multiple enterprise scenarios. Reliable Access: dynamically secures enterprise access from multiple dimensions such as access, identity, device, access, and data, ensuring comprehensive security Data Desensitization: utilise identity-based data access control and granular data desensitization to prevent data leakage through techniques such as character masking and sensitive content blocking, realising a personalized display for different users Behavior Management: control behaviors such as anti-copying, anti-printing, and anti-screenshot, migrating the risk of information leakage by ensuring files not landing on local hard drives Security Visibility: offers comprehensive logging and auditing of user access, behaviors, and threat alarms, facilitating easy traceability and thorough auditing Perfect Experience: requires no hardware for rapid deployment and hassle-free replacement. Maintains a familiar interface for a seamless transition, low learning curve, and high efficiency The technology owner leverages zero-trust security concept to offer comprehensive security management, making it ideal for sectors like finance, e-commerce, and manufacturing that require remote work and multiple branch operations, as well as industries that requires robust data security. Potential application scenarios include: Third-Party Secure Collaboration: guarantee secure data access for industry chain collaborators Remote Secure Access: ensure safe access from anywhere, supporting hybrid work modes IE Restriction Management: transition from IE to a dual-core browser, enabling access to IE-restricted sites Data Leakage Protection: multiple desensitization templates and security controls VDI Replacement: a cost-effective and low-maintenance alternative to VDI VPN Enhancement: by replacing with a more secure browser-based solution Identity access security: continuous verification and precise access control Whole-link data security: automated desensitization, encryption and behavior controls Dynamic verification and defense: adapts security based on behavior analysis Cost-effective: low-cost, easy installation and user-friendly Data security, Remote Work, Cyber Security Infocomm, Security & Privacy, Enterprise & Productivity

The demand for improved healthcare, coupled with increasing life expectancy and a growing elderly population, alongside resource constraints, necessitates the implementation of a 24/7 remote monitoring system equipped with an accurate risk prediction process. This process should forecast potential risks for individuals, enabling early detection and remote alerts to promptly alert healthcare providers and individual caregivers, thereby enhancing the well-being of those under care. A Japanese technology owner has developed a Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor technology, characterised by executing a risk prediction process to predict risks for the monitored individuals based on presence range and posture.  Unlike conventional camera-based systems, the proposed technology emphasises the privacy of the monitored individual by abstaining from capturing actual photos or images. Through the implementation of a proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, it can discern whether the individual under observation is absent from the bed, lying flat on it, sitting at its edge, or lying on the floor next to the bed. A web-based user interface had been developed to provide healthcare professionals various degrees of warning, e.g., patient at safe zone, gray zone, caution zone or bed edge zone. The technology owner is looking to work with healthcare providers, agencies or developers providing housing for the elderly, or technology companies for test bedding trials, as well as research and development collaborations to customise the technology for specific use cases. The technology leverages time-of-flight (ToF) sensors, which gauge distances between the sensor and the subject for each point in the image based on the round-trip time of an artificial light signal emitted by a laser. The process commences with the capture of an image of the individual, subsequently transmitted wirelessly via Wi-Fi to central management software. Equipped with algorithms, this software discerns any movement beyond predefined boundaries, such as within a hospital bed setting. Positioned above the bed, ToF sensors ascertain the person's position, whether lying down, seated on the bed's edge, or standing beside it. The resultant data is transmitted to a dedicated server situated at a nurse or helper station, where professionals like nurses or caregivers operate. The ToF sensor is positioned at a height of 2.5m, effectively covering a 2m x 2m area. The sensor detects height variations by displaying different colours and shapes on the software's graphical squares. Additionally, the system conducts an analysis of the individual's spatial orientation and vertical displacement, aiding in the evaluation of their overall condition. Visual representations typically depict lighter hues denoting proximity to the sensor, while darker shades indicate areas further away, such as the floor. Patient/ Elderly Fall Management: Healthcare Monitoring: Monitoring patients in hospitals or nursing homes to track their movements, position changes, and overall well-being without compromising their privacy. Elderly Care: Assisting caregivers in monitoring elderly individuals living independently at home to ensure their safety and well-being, particularly for those at risk of falls or other health issues. The technology can be adapted to be used for object tracking, human presence detection, etc. The technology is low-cost and low-power consumption, lightweight, and easy to install. The UVP includes: Privacy Emphasis: Prioritizing privacy by avoiding actual image capture while still providing effective monitoring. Unlock greater data potential: System firmware/software maximizes TOF sensor data, extracting unparalleled value. Visualization and Analysis: Utilizes graphical representations and AI/ ML algorithms to visualize and analyze data, aiding professionals in evaluating an individual's condition and making informed decisions. Real-time Alerts: Provides real-time alerts to professionals, such as nurses or caregivers, enabling prompt responses to any detected abnormalities or movements outside predefined boundaries. System Extension: ToF sensors can be easily added into the existing hardware and software system, minimizing implementation costs and disruption. Healthcare, Wellness, Fall Detection, Time-of-Flight sensor, AI algorithm Infocomm, Video/Image Analysis & Computer Vision, Wireless Technology, Healthcare ICT

The technology on offer are high value-added plastic materials that exhibits unique properties such as excellent sliding properties, anti-abrasion properties, releasability, anti-fouling properties and gas permeability or gas and moisture barrier properties respectively. With superior these properties, these materials are suitable for use in the development of different applications across manufacturing and healthcare sectors. Additionally, these materials have potential as alternatives to fluoropolymers such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). PTFE, widely used in many cases due to many valuable properties, has faced stricter regulations in Europe, particularly regarding perfluorooctanoic acid and substitute substances used in its manufacturing. This has driven the need for alternative materials. The technology owner has successfully demonstrated the use of these materials for automotive and consumer products and is interested to work with partners from other sectors such as food, healthcare, electronics, and construction on joint R&D projects to create novel applications. Main technical features of these high-value added thermoplastic materials are follows: Superior sliding and anti-abrasion properties compared to engineering plastics such as nylon and polybutylene terephthalate  e.g., for sliding parts Excellent releasability and anti-fouling properties due to very low surface tension e.g., used for microwavable food containers Excellent gas permeability e.g., hollow fibers in gas separation membranes Exhibits excellent gas and moisture barrier properties e.g., used in medical packaging Potential applications of these thermoplastics include: Robot parts, toys, sporting goods, fishing goods, food preparation machine parts (plastics with superior sliding and anti-abrasion properties) Micro fluid chips, cosmetic/food preparation machine parts (plastics with excellent releasability and anti-fouling properties) Gas permeable membranes (plastics with excellent gas permeability) Micro fluid chips and medical packaging (plastics with gas and moisture barrier properties) For materials with superior sliding and anti-abrasion properties: long product life, noise reduction, tactile sense, safe and efficient alternatives to PTFE For materials with excellent releasability and anti-fouling properties: ease of cleaning, efficient use of food, cosmetics and chemical products For materials with excellent gas permeability: efficient use of gas (e.g., oxygen gas) For materials with gas and moisture barrier properties: maintains the quality of products inside packaging or containers polymers, abrasion resistance, water resistance, water repellence, oil repellence, non-fluorinated, chemical resistance, chemicals, gas permeability, gas barrier, stain resistance, plastics, PTFE alternative, anti-fouling, impact strength, transparency, heat resistance, releasability, moisture barrier Materials, Plastics & Elastomers, Chemicals, Polymers, Organic, Additives

Platinum group metals (PGMs) are critical raw materials essential in diverse industries, including automotive catalytic converters, jewelry, glassware, petrochemical refining, electronics, and healthcare sectors like pharmaceuticals and dental implants. Primarily sourced through the mining of PGM ores, they constitute about 70% of the global PGM supply, with South Africa and Russia accounting for 85% of this production. This concentration in supply can lead to price gouging and market monopoly. Recycling PGMs from waste not only mitigates the supply shortfall but also reduces environmental impacts compared to mining. However, conventional recycling methods are energy-intensive, requiring temperatures around 1500°C, and involve costly downstream processing to treat waste. Furthermore, the high processing temperatures result in high-value raw materials being burnt and releasing harmful toxins. The technology owner has developed a novel biorecovery method that incorporates and modifies a series of biochemical and biological processes into a streamlined 3-stage process as opposed to the multi-tiered stages of current conventional methods used in industry. It offers the following advantages over the competition: Energy Efficiency: consumes 6x less energy than traditional methods Cost Effective: 3x cheaper in operation cost High Yield: capable of recovering multiple PGM simultaneously with high yield even from low-grade waste Sustainability: support company decarbonization goals by offering a truly green and sustainable recycling manner for spent catalyst The core process and specifications of the technology are summarised as follows: Statistically-Optimised Ultrasonication: as a key pretreatment step, this sonication method effectively removes all undesirable metals from waste, isolating PGM-rich materials, called the PGM-preconcentrated stream, enhancing the efficiency of subsequent steps. Bioextraction Technique: secondly, utilise a novel and unique bioextraction technique to extract PGMs from waste with high efficiency (i.e., 99% recycling rate per cycle for rhodium (Rh), 92-95% per cycle recycling rate for platinum (Pt) and palladium (Pd)). It can be employed at a commercial scale without compromising yield. Bioreduction, Bioaccumulation, and Bioprecipitation: a combination of these improved biological processes are used in the third step to produce PGM into powder form which further undergoes separation and purification to produce high-purity PGM products. This technology is ideal for industries that are interested to recycle their spent catalysts. The potential applications are as follows: Catalyst manufacturers Precious metal recycling companies Electronics and lithium ion battery (LIB) manufacturers Waste management companies Modular design: reduced logistics costs and downtime Lower cost (CAPEX & OPEX) compared to existing technologies Superior recovery rate: even for low-grade wastes  Sustainable and efficient recycling: offer significant step towards decarbonisation in industrial practices Biorecycling, Platinum group metals, Low carbon emission, Decarbonisation, Clean technology, Circular economy Chemicals, Catalysts, Environment, Clean Air & Water, Biological & Chemical Treatment, Waste Management & Recycling, Industrial Waste Management, Sustainability, Circular Economy

With the recent trend of digital transformation in government and corporate sectors, there is a specific focus on creating solutions that utilize AI to enhance decision-making, streamline operations, and foster interaction across various platforms. The challenge however involves leveraging private data to train AI models that are not only efficient but also secure and capable of handling complex, industry-specific tasks, thereby promoting operational efficacy and strategic growth. This technology utilizes an advanced AI-driven platform, designed to facilitate digital transformation and provide intelligent content creation with resource optimization services through the processing, analysis, and application of multimodal data to meet the needs of specific industries. It capitalizes on private data to train specific AI models, enhancing decision-making capabilities and operational efficiency. The platform encompasses AI digital humans, intelligent terminals, and targeted AI management systems, aiming to streamline interactions and manage diverse tasks across various industries with a focus on customized, real-time solutions. This approach promises a significant boost in productivity and operational effectiveness through data-driven insights and AI integration.   The technology consists of four key components: AI digital human cloud platform, embodied intelligent terminals, target AI management, and an industry-specific digital brain. It utilizes private data to train vertical AI models, ensuring enhanced data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency. The system features multi-system collaborative integration, enhanced intention understanding, and private data learning. It also integrates behavior-based learning and embodied intelligence, which continuously evolve to meet complex, real-time business needs across various sectors. Other features include: Private data learning Enhanced intention understanding Behavior-based learning Continuous building of embodied intelligence Multi-system collaborative integration The technology has diverse potential applications across different sectors: 1. Government and Corporate Digitalization: Enhances decision-making and efficiency through AI-driven data analysis and management solutions. 2. Healthcare and Education: Implements AI digital humans to interact and provide specialized information and services. 3. Customer Service: Uses AI digital humans for real-time customer support across various industries. 4. Human Resources: Automates and optimizes recruitment, training, and performance evaluations with AI insights. 5. Marketing and Sales: Employs intelligent systems to manage customer relationships and optimize marketing strategies. 6. Manufacturing and Logistics: Facilitates smart factories and supply chains through predictive analytics and real-time monitoring.    The unique value proposition of this technology lies in its integration of AI with specific vertical models tailored to different industries, enabling a higher level of customization and precision in data processing and decision-making. Key benefits include: Enhanced Data Privacy: Utilizes private data learning, ensuring secure data handling and customized AI training without compromising confidentiality. Improved Decision Making: Leverages decision intelligence and cognitive intelligence to provide real-time, data-driven insights that enhance operational decisions. Seamless Integration: Offers multi-system collaborative integration, allowing for easy adoption within existing IT infrastructures and processes, reducing the complexity and cost of technology deployment. Continuous Innovation: Features continuous building of embodied intelligence, enabling adaptive and evolving AI capabilities that keep pace with industry changes and demands.   Infocomm, Artificial Intelligence

As the earth gets warmer, the cooling of living and working spaces requires more energy. Governments are enacting standards for eco-friendly buildings in response to increasing concerns about rising energy use and carbon emissions. A novel “self-cooling” solution can help buildings and automobiles to cool down without heavily relying on air conditioning, leading to greater energy savings. The technology offer is a high-performance passive radiative cooling paint (PRCP) using emerging nanomaterial technology. Different from conventional paint, this cooling paint combines high solar reflectivity with high thermal emissivity. Hence, the paint can reflect incoming solar radiation and emit thermal radiation simultaneously, achieving effective cooling even under direct sunlight.  The technology owner is interested in R&D collaboration and test-bedding with commercial and residential building owners, property developers and construction companies. The technology is also available for out-licensing to paint developers and manufacturers. This technology has good cooling performance and is easy to apply. By applying the cooling paint on a building rooftop, the rooftop temperature can be reduced by 20-40⁰C under direct sunlight, compared to when no cooling paint is applied, saving about 20-40% of energy used by traditional air-conditioning systems in buildings. The advantages of this technology are: High solar reflectivity (>95%) High mid-infrared emissivity (>95%) Easy to apply Customised formulations and colors Eco-friendly and non-toxic Buildings and automobiles: reduce energy consumed by air-conditioning Outdoor electronic devices: improve electricity utilisation efficiency Outdoor storage systems: tanks, pipes, supply chain systems Solar cells and power plants: enhance power conversion efficiency Other infrastructures in hot climates: reduce urban heat island effect Self-cooling merchandise: umbrellas, hats, clothes, textiles Good cooling performance (indoor temperature reduction by 10⁰C) Cost-effective Customisable for different applications Environmentally friendly The technology owner is interested in R&D collaboration and test-bedding with commercial and residential building owners, property developers and construction companies. The technology is also available for out-licensing to paint developers and manufacturers. Materials, Nano Materials, Chemicals, Coatings & Paints, Green Building, Heating, Ventilation & Air-conditioning, Sustainability, Sustainable Living