About Us
Fluidion is transforming water quality monitoring in drinking water, wastewater, and natural environments, through the development of innovative solutions that can impact millions of lives worldwide
Company Vision
Fluidion is a deep-tech company dedicated to redefining excellence in water quality and environmental monitoring through novel science and cutting-edge, fully validated solutions that enable data-driven decision-making. We collaborate with government agencies, international organizations, academic institutions, private sector companies, non-governmental organizations, and community scientists worldwide. Our mission is to empower our customers with comprehensive solutions to understand and protect water resources, thereby reducing associated public health risks. As a committed leader in the water quality industry, we develop innovative technologies that have the potential to positively impact millions of lives globally.
Our advanced instrumentation is extensively protected by our patent portfolio and proprietary expertise, covering a wide array of water quality parameters in microbiology, chemistry, and physical measurements. Our award-winning technologies have been validated through numerous peer-reviewed studies, publications, and international certifications.
We uphold values of inclusion and diversity, with collective intelligence serving as a central pillar of our culture. We believe that our work has meaningful social and environmental impacts that will contribute to a sustainable future for our planet.
Our Values
Scientific Foundations
We are scientists to the core. Our technology is built on solid scientific grounds, developed through transparent, proven methodologies. We regularly publish our results in peer-reviewed journals and actively pursue and obtain independent validation for the performance of our products. We engage in collaborative work with major academic institutions worldwide.
Commitment to Innovation
Thinking "outside the box" and "into the chip," we encourage novel approaches to improve the performance of our instruments by combining custom protocols with highly-integrated microfluidic technology. We deploy the latest scientific, engineering and manufacturing innovations, in the process creating valuable intellectual property.
Global Impact
Our focus is on technologies that have the potential for global environmental, social and public health impact. We believe technology and individual responsibility need to be combined to address the global water, environmental and sustainability challenges of our times. We don't shy away from doing our part.
Respect and Integrity
We advocate values of respect, transparency and integrity toward our clients and partners and within our own team. We believe in the power of visionary individuals and small teams to achieve extraordinary outcomes. We support bold, innovative approaches to environmental action through novel science and technology.
The Team
Fluidion is driven by a team of passionate scientists, application specialists, and engineers who are leaders in their respective fields. Collaborating on technology-based solutions, they address the global water quality and public health challenges of the future. Deeply rooted in science, research, and technology, our team combines decades of experience in microfluidics, nanotechnology, and sensor development with substantial management, industry, and global market expertise.
Board of Advisors
Fluidion is guided by a distinguished Board of Advisors who bring extensive industry and scientific expertise in agriculture, microbiology, drinking water, wastewater management, and laboratory analysis. Their deep knowledge is further complemented by our extensive collaborations with academic institutions, centers of excellence, and industry partners.
Sustainability
At Fluidion, we strongly believe that technology has a key role to play in our strategy toward a sustainable planet. We provide meaningful contributions to the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
Maximizing Our Impact
Protecting Public Health
Waterborne disease is responsible for the death of close to one million people every year, mostly children in developing countries. Our water monitoring solutions are providing the technology foundations for implementing advanced public-health protection strategies. We provide breakthrough instrumentation that enables the effective monitoring of drinking water quality in both developed and resource-challenged settings (including migrant camps and areas devastated by war), the rapid identification of pathogens in our food sources, and the active monitoring of recreational and bathing waters. Our water quality technology has been used to create early warning systems that alert authorities and utilities to potential problems with water quality before they become serious issues. This helps prevent water-borne illness outbreaks and other health problems caused by contaminated water.
Our E.coli measurement technology was evaluated by the World Health Organization (WHO), as part of the UNICEF Rapid Water Quality Testing Project. The results of the WHO evaluation tests have shown that the FLUIDION ALERT technology is effective, simple to use, and compares favorably against the reference laboratory method in all ranges of bacteria levels relevant to drinking and surface water quality. The FLUIDION ALERT instrumentation results were judged easy to interpret. the risk of contamination to sample or operator was judged low, and sample disposal easy.
Reducing Environmental Footprint
We develop advanced digital water quality instrumentation that can help improve the quality of water and protect the health of communities and of the environment. By continuously monitoring the quality of water, our monitoring solutions help utilities optimize their water treatment and distribution systems, leading to more efficient use of water resources. This can help to conserve water and reduce the demand on limited water resources, and helps reduce the industry's carbon footprint. It also allows utilities and regulators to control effectively the quality of the effluents released in nature, thus limiting the impact on the environment. We help multiple utilities and environmental agencies worldwide to enhance their monitoring capabilities.
Enabling Community Involvement
Our technology is an excellent fit for implementing Community Science initatives and enabling untrained individuals to gain data-based insights into their environment and water quality, while simultaneously generating valuable scientific data. Our user-friendly instruments and powerful online data reporting and visualization interfaces can easily be integrated with grass-roots environmental education programs.
Pushing the Boundaries of Science
Our unique instrumentation is used by researchers worldwide to provide critical data about the planetary ocean. As an early industry actor in ocean acidication research, we proposed the hybrid colorimetric-potentiometric sensor concept that was tested in the Ocean Health X-Prize competition. Our unique sampling instruments are deployed on the ocean floor, or on autonomous submarines, to collect samples in the most challenging environments, including the very first samples from deep under the Antarctic ice shelf.