We are delighted that two of our instruments, the handheld ScanCorder and the LiquidScan, have found their way into the newly established Digital Core Lab ILEAS of Mittweida University of Applied Sciences.

This is a particularly exciting setting for us, as the instruments will be used not only for research and analytical applications, but also to provide students with hands-on experience of state-of-the-art optical sensing technology.

And there is more to this than simply taking measurements. An adequate educational sensing platform should make the entire process accessible: from understanding the underlying measurement principles and handling the hardware to intuitive software operation and data acquisition, and finally accessing the measurement data in open, non-proprietary formats.

The latter is particularly important in this context as students can use the data to explore different approaches to data analysis, develop their own machine-learning models, and discover the underlying information they can extract from their measurements.