Joan Graells's Contact Details

Joan Graells's Company Details

Sonicat Systems

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain • 8 Employees
Machinery

Sonicat Systems is a deep tech company that designs, manufactures, and markets innovative technological solutions for the food industry. We have two business lines.Our first business line is based on LIQUAM®, a High-Power Ultrasound reactor for the respectful treatment of honey.Generally, liquid honey is always the preferred choice for consumers. Crystallized honey is not sold in supermarkets, so retailers return it to packers who must pay the costs. To avoid refunds, packers are forced to pasteurize honey by applying temperatures of up to 80ºC for 1-2 minutes. This process delays crystallization for up to 12 months. However, the high temperatures reached drastically reduce the enzymatic activity of honey, losing part of its antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties. LIQUAM® presents a patented technology for the non-thermal melting process based on High-Power Ultrasound with the aim of replacing the widespread pasteurization process.The continuous contact of SonicatS ystems with companies in the honey sector has helped us to understand other key needs of the sector, such as the limitations they have when analyzing the pollen content to determine the authenticity of the honey they buy in bulk. Pollen analyzes today are carried out strictly manually, in specialized external laboratories and are complex (requires a highly trained technician), time consuming (requires 1-1.5 hours per sample), poorly reproducible (results depend on technician skills and experience) and expensive.This is how our second business line arose: Honey.AI, a cloud platform based on low-cost optical microscopy and Artificial Intelligence that can analyze not only the pollen content of a honey sample but also its crystallization ratio, and yeast concentration. Honey.AI reduces analysis time, enables real-time measurement on site, increases reproducibility of results, and greatly reduces human dependency.