Owlstone, Inc.
Owlstone develops, manufactures, and supplies advanced chemical detection solutions for a wide range of markets and applications, including security, defense, automotive, and healthcare. Their technology offers high sensitivity and selectivity, enabling rapid and accurate detection of chemicals in various environments. They collaborate with market leaders to integrate their innovative, small, low-power sensors into next-generation sensing products, aiming to bring chemical detection into everyday life.
Industries
Nr. of Employees
large (251-1000)
Owlstone, Inc.
Products
Programmable portable chemical analyzer
A field-deployable, programmable gas analyzer designed for point-of-need testing by non-specialist operators with ppb-level sensitivity for VOCs and specific industrial analytes.
Toxic Industrial Chemical (TIC) rapid detector
A rapid airborne detector and analyzer tailored to detect a wide range of toxic industrial chemicals and volatile organic chemicals with software-customizable targets.
Chemical warfare agent/high-threat TIC detector
A handheld/portable detection system intended to identify conventional chemical warfare agents and high-threat toxic industrial chemicals for defense and security applications.
Next-generation handheld chemical detector (military-funded)
A handheld chemical detector integrating miniaturized sensing technology and designed for portable use; noted as having received defense funding for development.
Permeation-based calibration gas generator
Calibration gas generation system using permeation tubes to produce stable ppm–ppb concentrations for instrument calibration and method validation.
Humidity generator for gas mixtures
A humidity generation module designed to produce controlled humidified gas mixtures for use alongside calibration gas generators and analyzers.
Programmable portable chemical analyzer
A field-deployable, programmable gas analyzer designed for point-of-need testing by non-specialist operators with ppb-level sensitivity for VOCs and specific industrial analytes.
Toxic Industrial Chemical (TIC) rapid detector
A rapid airborne detector and analyzer tailored to detect a wide range of toxic industrial chemicals and volatile organic chemicals with software-customizable targets.
Chemical warfare agent/high-threat TIC detector
A handheld/portable detection system intended to identify conventional chemical warfare agents and high-threat toxic industrial chemicals for defense and security applications.
Next-generation handheld chemical detector (military-funded)
A handheld chemical detector integrating miniaturized sensing technology and designed for portable use; noted as having received defense funding for development.
Permeation-based calibration gas generator
Calibration gas generation system using permeation tubes to produce stable ppm–ppb concentrations for instrument calibration and method validation.
Humidity generator for gas mixtures
A humidity generation module designed to produce controlled humidified gas mixtures for use alongside calibration gas generators and analyzers.
Services
OEM integration and partnership engineering
Technical integration of chemical sensing modules into partner products, co-development of application-specific solutions, and commercial partnership arrangements.
Custom software and detection library development
Development and deployment of application-specific detection libraries and software customization to detect targeted chemical species and set alarm thresholds.
Clinical study and breath-sampling support
Support for clinical research programs including breath sampling device development and clinical validation studies for volatile biomarker detection.
OEM integration and partnership engineering
Technical integration of chemical sensing modules into partner products, co-development of application-specific solutions, and commercial partnership arrangements.
Custom software and detection library development
Development and deployment of application-specific detection libraries and software customization to detect targeted chemical species and set alarm thresholds.
Clinical study and breath-sampling support
Support for clinical research programs including breath sampling device development and clinical validation studies for volatile biomarker detection.
Expertise Areas
- Ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS/DMS) and IMS–MS
- Portable chemical sensing and handheld detectors
- VOC and TIC detection across defense and industrial markets
- Calibration standards and permeation tube methodology
Key Technologies
- Ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS/DMS)
- IMS–MS (ion mobility coupled to mass spectrometry)
- Miniaturized FAIMS devices
- Portable chemical analyzers (low-power, small-form-factor)