Kao Yuan University's Gintel has created water quality monitoring systems that can provide information on 50 parameters of toxicity and recommend remedies.
Gintel Technology, a Taiwan-based water quality monitor technology developer spun out of Kao Yuan University, has obtained more than $30m in commitments from unspecified US and Southeast Asian investors for its latest round, the Fish Site reported today.
The deal is expected to be completed later in March 2019.
Gintel has devised fixed and portable water quality monitoring sensors that apply artificial intelligence and internet-of-things technologies to evaluate toxicity in aqua environments used for fish farming, which can lead to contamination of the habitat and consumer food products.
The system can evaluate more than 50 water quality parameters and automatically suggest appropriate remedies, in contrast to competing products which provide a more general outline of toxicity.
Gintel’s system has already been used by Southeast Asian shrimp farms and, following the latest funding round, will be adapted for other domestic, industrial and environmental water quality applications.
The company was co-founded by Chin-yuan Hsieh, its chief executive and a professor at Kao Yuan University who led the underlying research.
Details of earlier equity rounds for Gintel Technology could not be ascertained, though Chin-yuan Hsieh’s work has been funded by Taiwan’s ministries of education and of science and technology since 2016.
