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BlakBear - Make Food Efficient
At BlakBear, our mission is to make food efficient with quality assurance of every package.
Financial period: 1 Sep 2023 to 31 Aug 2024
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Blakbear develops chemical sensors designed to analyse food products and trace supply chains.
A postage stamp-sized paper air sensor stuck on the back of a smartphone could help Londoners gather vital data in the fight against air pollution. A team of PhD students from Imperial College has developed OpenSense, a cheap sticker that can measure deadly airborne exhaust gases. The paper has a pollution-sensitive sensor inside and is stuck on the back of a smartphone, which powers it.
BlakBear LTD has been setup the commercialise the technology developed in this project for real-time monitoring of food freshness using paper-based gas sensors
They are piloting the spoilage monitoring tags with their partners for the purposes of reduction of food waste which is a large societal problem in the UK and across the globe
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1 May 2023 to 31 Oct 2024
Every year, the global agricultural industry produces 193.1m tonnes of meat, 140m tonnes of seafood and 132m tonnes of chicken for human consumption. This takes tremendous resources, due to supply chain inefficiencies, oversupply and a lack of standardised quality control protocol. Microbiology lab data is currently expensive and sparse, perpetuating one-...
1 Jun 2022 to 30 Nov 2023
BlakBear has developed patented food packaging sensors that detect spoilage biomarkers in animal protein. In this project we will develop a food freshness AI for the chicken supply chain, which will analyse food spoilage from farm-to-fork. This will be deployed to improve cold-chain processes for suppliers, processors, transporters and supermarkets.
1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2023
The vision for SecQuAL is a secure, quality assured, digitally enabled food ecosystem that will reduce waste, improve decision-making and provide consumers with confidence in the food they purchase and consume. The next best thing since sliced bread! SecQuAL's key objective is to overhaul the food supply chain from farm to fork. SecQuAL addresses current ...
1 Jun 2020 to 30 Nov 2020
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1 Jun 2020 to 30 Nov 2020
BlakBear have invented a novel paper-based printed electrical gas sensor (PEGS) that can detect food degradation by measuring the spoilage gases emitted by perishable foods like meat, fish and poultry. We will deploy our sensors in food-boxes to consumer households, to monitor and reduce unnecessary and avoidable food waste. Food waste is a major problem,...
1 Nov 2019 to 31 Jul 2021
Food waste is a huge problem. In the UK alone we throw away 7.3 million tonnes of food each year. This equates to £13 billion. 4.4 million tonnes of this wasted food mountain was perfectly edible. Reducing food waste, without any compromise to the safety of food, is a major commitment at the Food Standards Agency. Heather Hancock, Chairman of the Food Sta...
1 Mar 2018 to 28 Feb 2019
Traditional approaches to air quality monitoring involve networks of fixed measurement stations, which requires significant investment. For example, the Automatic Urban and Rural Network (AURN) has 175 sites across the UK. These monitoring stations are often located away from roadsides and major traffic congestion areas, which result in localised high con...
