Typical monitoring methods for algal blooms range from heavy reliance on crude, naked-eye observations and sighting reports, to lab analyses that require expensive instruments and shipping samples to certified labs. These methods can result in false positives, leading to unnecessary interventions (e.g., beach closures, use of advanced water treatment) or multi-day lag times.

By teaming up with our partners at ioLight, BloomOptix AI replaces the need for expensive equipment with a low-cost, mobile device compatible microscope, providing more data than sensors or traditional microscopes alone. Perhaps most importantly, all sample and field data uploaded to the BloomOptix app is geolocated, linked with weather data, and databased, ensuring you never lose another datapoint nor have to fill out a field data sheet again.