Fast Sense
Fast Sense enables an integrated energy green future by detecting and quantifying hydrogen/methane leaks, minimizing environmental impact, and aiding decarbonization efforts.
About Us
Fast Sense measures what’s in your gas precisely. Using nano-scale solid-state sensors and IoT-enabled data consolidation, we accurately quantify hydrogen levels within combustible gas streams such as methane and natural gas.
Unlike traditional gas analyzers, our technology eliminates cross-sensitivity and delivers up to 10× savings in CAPEX and maintenance.
Applications
• Mixing & Process Control
• Flow Meter Coupling
• Redelivery & Energy Content Quantification
• Energy Storage Monitoring
Our solid-state chemiresistive sensor nodes also function as networkable leak detection units for pipelines, transformers, and power-grid mobility assets, providing a unified monitoring platform.
ATEX Class I, Zone 1 certified, the Fast Sense device is engineered for hydrogen detection in flammable environments (hydrogen, methane, and more).
The sensing element combines catalytic nanoparticle-decorated semiconductors with a selective polymeric coating, achieving unparalleled sensitivity, selectivity, and stability
Relevant Challenges
Energy Production
Fast Sense provides crucial real-time chemical monitoring solutions. Gas analysis is of paramount importance in these production environments for maximizing yields, ensuring safety, maintaining precise process control, and safeguarding the environment. Fast Sense’s technology facilitates this by enabling the immediate detection and analysis of gas compounds and mixtures using advanced nanoscale sensors integrated into CMOS layers. This innovative approach ensures that Fast Sense can identify and quantify different gases immediately without suffering from cross-sensitivity, even when sensing complex low carbon blends of H₂/CH₄. This capability allows for timely interventions to prevent accidents, maintain efficient process control, and minimize environmental impact by promptly addressing deviations from desired gas compositions. Furthermore, this solution is designed to be low power, wireless, and miniature, making it easy to deploy for monitoring
Energy Transmission and Distribution
Fast Sense offers advanced leak detection and gas analysis. This is achieved using high-performance, nanoscale sensor structures integrated into CMOS layers, resulting in a low power, wireless, miniature solution that is easy to deploy across the grid. Crucially, the technology provides real-time chemical monitoring capable of accurately identifying and quantifying gas compounds and complex mixtures—including low carbon blends of H₂/CH₄—without suffering from cross-sensitivity. This immediate detection capability facilitates timely interventions, protecting assets like pipelines, equipment, and urban areas in case of leaks during transportation and storage, while ensuring safer delivery of blended hydrogen response monitoring across the energy network
Energy Storage
Fast Sense deploys smart gas meter solution to protect assets, including equipment and urban areas, in case of leaks during storage. The technology provides real-time chemical monitoring using advanced nanoscale sensors embedded within CMOS layers to accurately detect, analyze, and quantify complex gas mixtures like low carbon blends (H₂/CH₄). This precise, real-time detection ensures the safety and reliability of equipment, enabling timely interventions to contain leaks faster and minimize potential damages
Energy Efficiency
Fast Sense addresses energy efficiency challenges primarily by providing real-time chemical monitoring and precise gas analysis. The technology aids efficiency by allowing industrial plants—particularly those in hard-to-abate sectors like chemical, steel, cement, and glass—to maximize yields and maintain precise process control. By using low power, wireless, miniature sensors integrated into CMOS layers, Fast Sense enables the immediate detection and quantification of gas compounds and mixtures, such as low carbon blends (H₂/CH₄), without cross-sensitivity. This capability facilitates timely interventions to correct deviations from desired gas compositions, which is crucial for maintaining efficient operations and preventing energy waste
Alternative Fuels
Fast Sense directly addresses Alternative Fuels challenges by enabling the accurate detection and quantification of low carbon blends (H₂/CH₄) of gas using proprietary semiconductor-based chips and instruments integrated within the smart grid meter market. The technology provides real-time chemical monitoring which can identify and quantify different gases and gas mixtures immediately without suffering from cross-sensitivity, ensuring safety and efficiency when utilizing alternative fuels like hydrogen. Furthermore, Fast Sense supports the broader energy transition by assisting in enabling a green future gas sensor network solution and providing blended hydrogen response monitoring to ensure the fast and safer delivery of these alternative fuels across the network
Fuel Efficiency
Fast Sense addresses fuel efficiency challenges—particularly in hard-to-abate industries such as chemical, steel, cement, and glass plants—by offering real-time chemical monitoring solutions. Gas analysis is critically important in these production environments for maximizing yields and ensuring precise process control. The technology utilizes advanced nanoscale sensor structures integrated into CMOS layers to identify and quantify different gases and gas mixtures immediately, including low carbon blends of H₂/CH₄. This real-time capability allows for timely interventions to promptly address any deviations from desired gas compositions, thereby maintaining efficient process control and preventing the energy waste associated with inefficient operations
Capture
Fast Sense addresses challenges related to carbon capture and emissions by assisting in enabling a green future gas sensor network solution. This solution provides a “Single stream synopsis of C02 Emissions”. Furthermore, the company focuses on providing real-time chemical monitoring to hard-to-abate industries (such as chemical, steel, cement, and glass plants). These industries account for a significant percentage of total global carbon dioxide emissions. By enabling precise process control and maximizing yields through accurate gas analysis, Fast Sense facilitates timely interventions to minimize environmental impact, supporting the larger industrial investment goals into renewables, clean hydrogen, and CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage)
Traceability
Fast Sense addresses challenges related to traceability through its core technology which provides real-time chemical monitoring and precise data delivery across the network. The system utilizes a proprietary on-a-chip solution that gives the ability to detect, analyse, and monitor gas mixtures. Specifically, the technology enables a “Single stream synopsis of C02 Emissions”, providing essential data for tracking environmental impact. Furthermore, the company offers blended hydrogen response monitoring coupled with a data optimization algorithm, which helps companies contain and detect leaks faster, offering re-active controls and quick response. This comprehensive, real-time data collection from nanoscale sensors deployed across the smart grid is critical for establishing the necessary traceability required for safe, efficient, and compliant operations during the energy transition. impact. Furthermore, the company offers blended hydrogen response monitoring coupled with a data optimization algorithm, which helps companies contain and detect leaks faster, offering re-active controls and quick response. This comprehensive, real-time data collection from nanoscale sensors deployed across the smart grid is critical for establishing the necessary traceability required for safe, efficient, and compliant operations during the energy transition
Evaluation, Management and Reporting
Fast Sense addresses challenges in evaluation, management, and reporting by providing real-time chemical monitoring and precise, quantifiable data through its proprietary on-a-chip solution. This technology enables the immediate detection, analysis, and monitoring of complex gas mixtures, offering a reliable approach to multi-gas analysis, which is crucial for decision-making. For reporting and management, the system offers a “Single stream synopsis of C02 Emissions”, providing essential tracking data. Furthermore, Fast Sense couples its blended hydrogen response monitoring with a data optimization algorithm, which assists companies in achieving re-active controls and quick response. This capability supports evaluation by allowing for timely interventions to prevent accidents and maintain efficient process control, helping plant owners and energy suppliers manage their assets and operations effectively
Energy Consumption
Fast Sense addresses Energy Consumption challenges by offering a low power, wireless, miniature solution for gas analysis, which significantly reduces the energy required for monitoring compared to traditional methods. By providing real-time chemical monitoring and precise gas analysis, the technology helps hard-to-abate industries—such as chemical, steel, cement, and glass plants—maximize yields and maintain efficient process control. This accuracy in monitoring, which includes quantifying low carbon blends (H₂/CH₄) immediately, allows for timely interventions to correct deviations from desired gas compositions, thereby preventing energy waste and ensuring efficient use of fuel and feedstock
