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Mot'Olfactory

An intelligent electronic nose for your Moto Z smartphone - Smell Everything!

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Mot'Olfactory

Mot'Olfactory

Mot'Olfactory

An intelligent electronic nose for your Moto Z smartphone - Smell Everything!

An intelligent electronic nose for your Moto Z smartphone - Smell Everything!

An intelligent electronic nose for your Moto Z smartphone - Smell Everything!

An intelligent electronic nose for your Moto Z smartphone - Smell Everything!

Ed Stetter
Ed Stetter
Ed Stetter
Ed Stetter
3 Campaigns |
San Francisco, United States
$0 USD 0 backers
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Overview
What if your phone had an electronic nose that could "smell" things? What if those scent memories created a database you could use to help identify smells? What if this device could also perform complex chemical analysis and air quality monitoring? Could you tell when your clothes need washing? What type of beer you're drinking? Whether your air is unsafe to breathe? What else can you imagine? Mot'Olfactory is a sensor array for your phone - what will YOU smell!

With Mot'Olfactory, you can now carry around an "electronic nose" capable of smelling the world by sensing and recording (remembering) the unique "chemical signature" in the air and comparing it to "smells" you've recorded before or that match signatures in a database of smells and known compounds contributed by scientists, labs and other people like you around the world. SPEC Sensors is working to help build the first ever mobile phone capable of environmental gas and smell sensing, and with your contribution, we can make this a reality. 

Working with the Moto Mods™ development kit, we will be building a modification capable of working with your Moto Z on or off the phone.  Moto Mods™ snap onto any Moto Z to give it a whole new superpower.  They transform your phone allowing it to do things other phones can’t.  To learn more about Moto Mods™ visit www.motomods.com.  Even without the Moto Z, with internal Bluetooth capabilities and a standalone app this electronic nose will be able to work with any Android device.

For instance, now you can smell your beer, and compare it to other beers (maybe that craft beer isn’t all that different than the mass produced one), or measure the alcohol and bitterness content of that beer. You can also find out if your feet are smellier than your friend's feet, or know when its time to ditch that old gym bag. This is also going to tell you which way you should go to avoid the smog on your afternoon run or walk, or discover what could be setting off your asthma in your home.  As more and more people measure their surrounding environments (and those weird smells), we can start to collect a database of smells signatures to really know what is out there in our homes and our communities.

Mot'Olfactory is more than a nose for your phone, its a learning device and a crowd sourcing data platform capable of  rapid and exponential knowledge expansion.....and it may just win you a bet with your friends. 

What We Need & What You Get

Our prototype Mot'Olfactory electronic nose includes three gas sensors, in addition to temperature, pressure, and humidity. This prototype has been thoroughly tested through an independent international campaign highlighting body odor sensing (New App Turns Smartphone Into High-Tech B.O. Detector) and we smelled bad B.O. with more than 75% accuracy using only two sensors!.  What we want to bring to the world is not just body odor detection, but any odor detection.  We will accomplish this feat using smart sensing technology and crowd-sourced data to compile a database of smells from around the world to help identify the smells around you.

What we need from you is a valuable contribution to help us meet our goal to turn this gas-sensor array into a mobile smelling platform.  We have already put a great deal of work into the sensor and hardware design, including production, electronics, and calibration.  Part of your contribution will be used for the hardware design to make this part of the Moto Mods™ collection and will be done in house, using the extensive expertise of our mechanical and electrical engineers together with our skilled production team.  Our existing facility can easily adapt to produce small batches of our prototype e-nose, and we are excited to offer this to you as one of our company's several Perks.

We have already achieved outstanding results with this platform while monitoring levels of ozone and carbon monoxide.  The following highlights the performance of our compact low cost carbon monoxide sensor operating side by side with scientific equipment roughly the size of an old desktop computer and about 1,000 times the cost.

Our sensors are even being deployed as part of the Array of Things Project in the city of Chicago to measure their air quality! And since air quality is essential to our health, we will continue our partnership with technologies like CleanSpace to keep you breathing healthy air wherever you go.

And critically, your contribution will help develop the machine learning algorithms to take these high performance readings and identify smells much like one might identify a fingerprint, and to develop the crowd sourced data platform and app that will be the backbone of this very powerful device. 

And if you are just looking for a cool app to smell your beer or your breath or your feet, then your contribution is going to help us with this too.

We have elected to make this a flexible funding campaign, so what this means for our backers is that if we do not make our goal for prototype development we would like to offer our backers something with similar technology and applications for their support.  With that, we will be offering great discounts on sensor development kits if we cannot make our goals for the prototype design. So if we don't reach our goal, we won't be able to finish this product! But you will still get some really cool sensors you can use to build your own electric nose. 

Other Ways You Can Help

While you may not have the Moto Z or our Moto Z Mod, you can still help us reach our environmental and smell monitoring goals.  We have made some perks available for the Maker.  Perks that will help you build your own electric nose.  For our sensor development kits, we have provided open source libraries to incorporate these digital and analog sensors into the most common and versatile microcontroller platforms.  We would be very appreciative if you added your smells to our library.

Finally, if you know someone who is interested in air quality monitoring or they just need a new nose, send them our way (more polite then sending a bar of soap).  Let them know we are passionate about a future where we can all take a healthy breath.

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Prototype Mot'Olfactory

$299 USD
This is our prototype! It's what this campaign is all about. We hope to put a fully functional 3 gas sensor into your hands and into the field to start testing. The app that we will be providing is also a prototype, so be patient while we work out the kinks. For the next 2 weeks we are offering 10% off the Beta Version coming out next year!
Included Items
  • Mot'Olfactory Moto Mod
  • 10% off Beta Mot'Olfactory
Estimated Shipping
August 2017
1 out of 100 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

No strings, $5 feel good Perk

$5 USD
We value your opinion, and we hope that you use this Perk as an opportunity to vote for a clean air technology. Please pass on our campaign to friends who might also be interested in environmental monitoring or the next electric nose.
Included Items
  • Imaginary High Five (5)
Estimated Shipping
May 2017
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Coupon for $10 off shipping

$20 USD
With this perk you will receive a coupon for $10 off shipping for any order from SPEC Sensors (spec-sensors.com) website. Check out our offers for digital and analog sensors for IoT, designed with the Maker in mind.
Included Items
  • $10 dollars off shipping
Estimated Shipping
May 2017
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IoT Digital Sensor

$112 USD
We are offering your choice of 2 single digital gas sensors at 25% off our listed prices. Easily add gas sensing to your next big project. Information on the gas sensor choices, as well as operation can be found here: https://www.spec-sensors.com/product-category/digital-gas-sensors-iot/
Included Items
  • Digital Sensor Module
Estimated Shipping
May 2017
0 out of 150 of claimed
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IoT Maker Kit

$300 USD
Receive one digital gas sensor development kit at 14% off. These are great for the Maker trying to build their own compact low energy sensor platform. Check out the image in the gallery below. More information on the modules can be found here: https://www.spec-sensors.com/product/digital-gas-sensor-developer-kit.
Included Items
  • Digital Gas Kit for IoT
  • 10% off Beta Mot'Olfactory
  • Imaginary High Five (8)
Estimated Shipping
May 2017
0 out of 100 of claimed
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10x's the fun! 10 Prototypes!

$2,500 USD
Get a 10 pack of noses for your phone! 10 Beta test units so you can be a lead developer with us.
Included Items
  • Mot'Olfactory Moto Mod
Estimated Shipping
June 2017
0 out of 5 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

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