Inscentinel sniffer bees

Inscentinel Ltd. is developing a unique sensor system which utilises trained honey bees (Apis mellifera) to detect trace vapours. The fundamental science is simple: honeybees have extremely sensitive olfactory and they can be trained. For more information about how we train the sniffer bees, please refer to the sniffer bees link on the side.

Training a single honey bee is fun but training hundreds or thousands of bees is not. We know that to use honey bees in a real application we have to develop an easy-to-use method. Over many years of creative thinking and development, the Bee Sensor System created at Inscentinel. It combines the ease-of-use of a machine and the sensitivity of a biosensor.

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