Partnerships

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has developed e-nose technology to track astronaut health on long-distance or long-duration missions. The NASA e-nose technology has been shown to detect scent signatures linked to infectious and inflammatory diseases such as Covid-19 and influenza. Agscent has a license to use NASA's scent technology in agriculture and a non-exclusive license to undertake proof of concept trials for any other application, such as human health and biosecurity applications.

Agscent and Optiweigh have developed a deeply integrated hardware and data partnership that combines Optiweigh's market-leading livestock weighing technology with Agscent's methane sensing capability. The Agscent x Optiweigh unit enables simultaneous measurement of individual animal weight and methane emissions, with data feeding automatically to dashboards.

Dairy Farmers of America, a national cooperative representing 9,500 dairy farmers across the U.S., is partnering with Agscent to bring breath analysis technology to the dairy industry. Together, we are validating Agscent's non-invasive solutions for early pregnancy detection and Bovine Respiratory Disease diagnosis, advancing herd health, profitability, and sustainability for farmers.

Agscent's sensor development is anchored by a partnership with Professor Noushin Nasiri at Macquarie University, a 2024 Eureka Prize winner for nanotechnology. Through a commercial licence and active co-development program, her team is building the next generation of low-cost, high-sensitivity nanomaterial sensors directly on Agscent's platform. The partnership brings together PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and dedicated fabrication access. It's where world-class science meets real-world applications.

MOBIUS is an ARC-funded $25M Molecular Biosensing Network led by La Trobe University, bringing together 20+ research and industry partners to develop low-cost methane nanosensors for livestock emissions reduction. Agscent is a founding industry partner, contributing commercial validation capability, field deployment expertise, and agricultural application focus to what is one of Australia's most significant deep-tech sensing research investments.

Agscent's partnership with Professor Lan Fu's group at the Australian National University is developing next-generation indium phosphide nanowire sensors for ketosis diagnostics, fabricated using ANFF semiconductor facilities. The collaboration targets sub-parts-per-billion acetone detection, covering the full clinically relevant range for metabolic health monitoring in livestock and companion animals.