According to the firm's consulting firm, Spectral Engines, a spin-off from VTT (Finnish National Technology Research Center), received 2.4 million euros from the EU to support mass production of its infrared portable drug analyzers. This portable drug scanner helps patrollers scan drug suspicious objects quickly and economically in the field.

The pocket-sized infrared portable drug scanner provides the ability to display scan results on the operator's smartphone in seconds. Spectral Engines said the global demand for such innovative products based on infrared scanning is so significant that the European Union will fund its 2.4 million euros for product production.

Spectral Engines commented that this portable product weighs only a few hundred grams and can greatly improve police drug law enforcement. In addition to being the first portable drug scanner to be used in the field, this tungsten lamp-based device is also very economical and 20 times cheaper than competing products using Raman spectroscopy currently on the market.

Spectral Engines CCO Janne Suhonen said: "Our drug scanner is a lot smaller than competing products currently on the market, and is designed for on-site applications that employ the user's smartphone as a user interface and use the cloud Internet, easy for different drugs to implement machine learning algorithm updates.

Cocaine, heroin and amphetamines

This portable scanner accurately and reliably identifies extremely low levels of cocaine, heroin and amphetamines. On request, the multipurpose instrument's recognition algorithm can be updated through the cloud to identify a variety of "popular drugs" such as ecstasy, ketamine, flunitrazepam, GHB, and hallucinogen.

In addition to police applications, the scanner can also be used at customs, military and other similar government agencies that can use the portable scanner to identify potentially unknown illicit substances.

The technology is based on the NarcoScan project, infrared spectroscopy and MEMS technology based on VTT research. Suhonen said the first product will be available in the spring of 2018.

"This funding from the EU Horizon 2020 program will ensure that we recruit a few employees to quickly mass-produce the first prototype, and we are going to release the first product next spring and in early 2018 with our head Batch test customers to conduct field testing of this product together, "he added.

During the development of this scanner, the company has partnered with many of the world's leading criminal laboratories and its R & D partners are mainly from the United States and Europe. The money will also help companies expand more new collaborations to develop an expanded drug model library.

NIRONE sensor

Spectral Engines' NIRONE sensors operate in the near-IR range of 1350 to 2450 nm and offer better sensitivity and selectivity for sensing applications in matter. NIRONE sensors, while small in package size, are fully compatible with top-of-the-range lab-grade instruments and deliver superior performance at a fraction of the cost.

NIRONE sensors are primarily designed for system integrators who create optical scanning systems. The compact NIRONE sensor includes two integrated light sources, NIR sensors, readout and driver circuitry, and an embedded library of smart drug models that provide scalable probe outputs even in the most demanding industrial or consumer applications. By choosing the right front-end optical module, this spectroscopy sensor can easily meet a variety of measurement needs.

The evaluation kit included with NIRONE provides the foundation for technical evaluation and application research, including a USB communication board and dedicated SensorControl software that allows the computer to control the operation of the sensor. Spectral Engines said: "This evaluation kit is the fastest and easiest way to turn on NIR applications, and SensorControl software is available for free with any of our devices."


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