What’s in your water? Maybe things like unwanted chemicals, physical contamination or bacteria/organics—stuff you want to filter out successfully. To know just how well your filters are working—or not working—you send samples to the lab and then wait for a response. While the lab can find physical particles and chemicals rather quickly, waiting for a determination of whether the sample contains microbiological/organic particles can add to the length of time it takes to get a result. And what’s more, a lab test is just a snapshot in time—it doesn’t reflect what went on in your water flow before or after the sample you took.
Alex Keinan, chief scientist and CTO of Fluidsens International Inc., had been looking for a way to get immediate analytical results from testing running water flows. Inventor of the Fluidsens system for online, real-time testing of water, he holds a master’s degree in technology and acquired experience in many areas of science and proactively developed several patented technologies and products in the fields of nanotechnology, security, medical equipment and more. Fluidsens International also enlisted the help of Professor and Scientist Yuri Kaganovski, who is head of physics at Bar-Ilan University (Israel) and Kharkov State University, to further develop the technology.