Bio-IT against microbes

It is planned to create a biological version of the Internet of Things

DailyTechInfo based on the materials of EE Times: Startup Breathes Life into Bio IoT

The management of the newly organized company Nano Global (Austin, Texas) plans to create and deploy a kind of biological version of the Internet of Things (Internet of Biological Things). The specialists of this company, together with ARM specialists, are developing a line of systems-on-a-chip (SoC) capable of detecting, identifying and possibly controlling microorganisms. And such specialized chips can be equipped with any devices, smartphones, children's toys, medical devices and household appliances.

This approach will literally turn the whole world into one huge laboratory in which various diseases will be studied and new drugs will be tested. For these purposes, it is planned to create a kind of "digital market" through which consumers and researchers will be able to buy, sell and exchange the data they collect.

Nano Global plans to use optical technologies and artificial intelligence systems implemented in the form of specialized chips to detect and identify microorganisms. The authenticity and reliability of the data will be ensured by blockchain technology, and all this together will lead to the emergence of an open global database of molecular and biological data.

Currently, Nano Global specialists are developing the first samples of chips for bio-IoT, which will be born in about a year. In addition to ARM, Nano has attracted specialists from various universities and other scientific organizations to this work, who are engaged in drawing up an extensive business model of the future enterprise.

"We want to open a vast new market for molecular data, which will be constantly updated in real time," says Steve Papermaster, president of Nano Global and the investment company Powershift Group, "What we plan to create is much more than just the Internet of Things. This approach will significantly speed up research in the development of new medicines and medical devices, because companies will no longer have to literally turn out their pockets to conduct expensive laboratory research and testing."

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