While our ventilator prototypes were still in testing, I got another unexpected call. We had a meeting at one of the largest fisheries in the Middle East. During the pandemic, surrounded by medical devices and hospital testing, we were now going… fishing.
I never imagined how massive a seafood production facility could be. Dozens of pools, tanks, filtration systems, and workers handled sensitive living ecosystems. But despite the scale, there was one big issue: they were still doing most things manually.
Water tests were done with paper strips. Feeding was done by pressing buttons, or in some cases, entirely by hand. No data tracking. No alerts. No prevention systems. And if even one contamination or infection event happened, they had to shut everything down, clean with ozone, and restart. That meant huge financial losses and no early warning. That’s where we came in.
The mission was clear: design a system that could measure, prevent, and detect signs of infection early, using connected sensors and real-time data. If we could help them act before things went wrong, we could save millions and transform the way they work.
It was another example of what IoT is really about. Not just gadgets. But solving problems no one else sees until it’s too late.
