AnalyteX

Electrochemistry has been a bench instrument for a century: a box the size of a microwave, in a room with a chiller and a trained operator. AnalyteX makes it a field instrument.

It is a handheld potentiostat with a 2.8-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, USB data export and a companion app. It runs cyclic voltammetry, differential pulse voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and every scan streams to the app, where analytics and AI turn the signal into an answer rather than a plot.

The point is who gets to use it: a water utility technician screening for lead, an exporter checking seafood for formalin, a soil laboratory, a research group that cannot buy five benchtops. One device, with the sensor changed for each test.

The example reading on our own site is lead at 12 ppb — above the 10 ppb drinking-water limit in BIS IS 10500 and the WHO guidance. That is the kind of number that needs to be visible where the sample was taken, not three days later.

VidyuthLabs is a DPIIT-recognised startup, and we are working with BITS Pilani Hyderabad on portable potentiostat applications, beginning with heavy-metal sensors for water, food and soil. Pre-orders are open.