Agriculture Monitoring
Challenge: Modern agriculture faces mounting pressure to ensure crop health, food safety, and environmental sustainability — all while reducing chemical inputs and improving yield. However, pathogen detection in soil, water, and produce remains slow, lab-dependent, and reactive, often leading to crop loss, regulatory fines, or disrupted supply chains.
Solution: SensTek’s portable molecular analytics platforms enables on-site detection of plant pathogens, waterborne bacteria, and spoilage indicators in minutes — not days. With just a small sample, farmers and agronomists can monitor fields, irrigation systems, and post-harvest conditions in real time, making data-driven decisions that protect crops, reduce pesticide use, and increase market confidence.
Animal Health
Challenge: Detecting infectious diseases in livestock and poultry is critical for preventing outbreaks, ensuring food safety, and reducing economic losses. Yet, current diagnostic methods often rely on lab-based testing with long turnaround times, making early intervention difficult. This delay can lead to rapid disease spread, costly treatments, and even mass culling.
Solution: SensTek’s molecular and biosensing platforms allow on-site, early detection of pathogens in animals using small samples of saliva, feces, blood, or environmental swabs. Our pathogen-agnostic system delivers fast, accurate yes/no results and quantitative readouts, enabling farmers and veterinarians to take immediate action.
Water Quality Monitoring
Challenge: Monitoring microbial contamination in water systems — especially in cooling towers, HVAC systems, and industrial water loops — is critical for preventing outbreaks like Legionnaires’ disease and ensuring regulatory compliance. Yet current testing methods are slow, centralized, and reactive, often requiring sample shipment to labs with results taking days — by which time the system may already be compromised.
Solution: SensTek offers on-site molecular detection of waterborne pathogens, including Legionella, using simple, disposable test cassettes and minimal sample prep. Our platform delivers actionable results in under 45 minutes, allowing building managers and water safety professionals to monitor and mitigate risks in real time. With portable, easy-to-use tools that require no specialized training, we empower proactive water safety management across commercial, industrial, and municipal settings.
Food Safety
Challenge: Foodborne pathogens like Salmonella, Listeria, and E. coli can contaminate products at any stage — from farm to fork — leading to costly recalls, brand damage, and health risks. Yet, current testing methods are centralized, slow, and logistically demanding, often requiring days to confirm contamination, which delays corrective action and disrupts supply chains.
Solution: SensTek’s compact, on-site molecular testing platform allows rapid detection of pathogens directly at processing plants, packaging facilities, and distribution centers. Using minimal sample volume and no cold chain, our system delivers clear yes/no results and quantitative data in under an hour. This empowers food producers to test more frequently, act faster, and reduce the risk of contaminated products reaching consumers — all without the need for complex lab infrastructure.