To revolutionise the science of tomorrow, we must first empower the scientists of today. A scientist’s day is filled with problem-solving, experimentation, and discovery – but it’s also packed with data entry, compliance tasks, and routine checks that slow progress. What if those inefficiencies could be minimised, allowing scientists to focus on what truly matters?
That’s where Lumi comes in. By automating time-consuming processes and streamlining workflows, Lumi transforms the daily scientific routine – reducing manual effort, improving data integrity, and ensuring smoother operations from experiment to insight. How exactly? Let’s have a look at seven ways Lumi transforms the scientific routine, as told by those who know it best: real scientists.
Continuous monitoring
Current situation: Scientists often rely on discrete data points manually collected at specific times (e.g., “10:34 am, temperature stable at 46°C, agitation at 450 rpm”). Alternatively, labs pay substantial sums to upgrade equipment for automated data collection.
How Lumi helps: Lumi’s system enables seamless continuous monitoring of any human-readable instrument, from humidity gauges to fridge thermometers. By creating custom dashboards with clear visualisations, it drastically improves data quality and reduces manual effort.
Why it matters: Continuous data collection not only enhances accuracy but also offers valuable insights that would otherwise remain unseen. Lumi transforms data gathering from a laborious task into an effortless, high-yield process.
Alerts: stay Informed, anywhere
Current situation: There is no efficient way to receive alerts about changes in visual readouts or thresholds being reached without physically checking.
How Lumi helps: Any AI agent tracking numeric or categorical output can be configured to alert the user if it exceeds, falls below, or crosses a set point. Notifications can be sent via phone, email, or platforms like Teams.
Why it matters: Scientists can focus on other tasks without constant monitoring, confident that Lumi will notify them of critical events. This allows parallel experiments, enables safe & efficient overnight operations, improves safety (e.g., solvent level alerts), and boosts productivity by reducing downtime.
Quantification of time
Current situation: Precision timing of certain processes requires a second scientist to operate a timer while the primary scientist performs the task. Examples include filtrations and phase separations critical to pharmaceutical synthesis.
How Lumi helps: Lumi tracks time-based events accurately, freeing up scientists and reducing the need for additional personnel. It also provides additional parameters like volume/time or colour changes.
Why it matters: Enhanced data collection increases the reliability and reproducibility of experiments, streamlining scale-up activities.
Quantification of appearance
Current situation: Appearance assessments often rely on subjective comparisons to vague specifications (e.g., “off-white powder”).
How Lumi helps: Lumi provides precise, quantitative metrics for appearance, such as exact RGB values or particle size, replacing subjective assessments with objective data.
Why it matters: By setting quantitative appearance standards, Lumi ensures consistency, reduces human error, and aligns appearance testing with other quantitative metrics.
Improved data traceability, quantity, and quality
Reagents and materials:
Current situation: manually recording details like lot numbers or expiry dates of materials is time-consuming and prone to transcription errors.
How Lumi helps: Lumi can capture label data instantly and accurately, integrating it with inventory systems.
Why It matters: Automated data capture eliminates errors, saves time, and enhances traceability, ensuring alignment between recorded and actual data.
Equipment management:
Current situation: Tracking calibration, servicing, and usage data often involves cumbersome logbooks or Excel sheets.
How Lumi helps: Lumi can extract equipment details and integrates them with existing databases for real-time updates on calibration and usage.
Why it matters: Lumi simplifies equipment management, reduces manual effort, and ensures regulatory compliance.
Protocol adherence: evidence-based experiments
Raw Video Evidence:
Current Situation: Observations and actions are manually recorded and often incomplete or inaccurate.
How Lumi Helps: Lumi’s raw video footage serves as a searchable and unambiguous record, capturing every detail of an experiment.
Why It Matters: This comprehensive record provides invaluable insights, supports deviation investigations, and ensures adherence to relevant procedures.
AI-Powered Interpretation:
Current Situation: Existing recordings (if any) are unindexed and difficult to navigate.
How Lumi Helps: Lumi uses AI to interpret and label actions, creating a searchable audit trail that allows scientists to easily extract data.
Why It Matters: Scientists can quickly navigate recordings of scientific activities, saving time and improving both internal and external audits.
Data integrity: meeting ALCOA+ standards
Current Situation: Ensuring data integrity under Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) is challenging, requiring meticulous effort that often compromises accuracy.
How Lumi Helps: Lumi’s raw video evidence alleviates much of the burden on scientists, easing adherence to ALCOA+ principles (attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original, accurate, and beyond).
Why It Matters: By automating data integrity compliance, Lumi allows scientists to focus on their work while maintaining rigorous standards for internal investigations or external audits.
Lumi streamlines the data capture process, enabling scientists to concentrate on performing experiments rather than documenting them. This shift enhances productivity and ensures accurate, retrievable data. By integrating inventory management, ELN, LIMS, equipment tracking, and more, Lumi replaces fragmented systems with a cohesive digital ecosystem. Searchable, retrievable data ensures scientists can easily access critical information without wading through disparate sources.
By enhancing data quality, streamlining processes, and ensuring traceability, Lumi is paving the way for the next generation of scientific excellence.
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