European release for innovative "through the bottle" beverage analyser
Cambridge, UK, 11th May 2011: It was announced today that the 2011 London International Wine Fair will be the venue for the official European release of BevScan, an innovative new device to analyse and classify wines without opening the bottle or disturbing the contents in any way.
Of particular interest to wine makers, manufacturers, bottlers, distributors and auction houses, BevScan is expected to find wide acceptance in applications as diverse as beverage quality control, wine distribution, wine authentication, storage/cork damage and wine substitution detection. The device uses a simple beam of light passing through the unopened bottle as its measuring technique, thus providing an environmentally-friendly process requiring no chemicals, consuming very little power and leaving the wine or beverage totally unaffected. BevScan has been specifically designed for use by non-technical operators, making the testing very cost effective.
A product of South Australian Company, Jeffress Engineering Pty Ltd, and with spectroscopic techniques developed in conjunction with The Australian Wine Research Institute, BevScan is the result of five years of research and uses VIS-NIR spectroscopy to determine the constitution of wine and bottle. Statistical processing support was provided by CAMO AS of Norway (developers of The Unscrambler software). The device employs sophisticated electro-optics, computer technology and statistics hidden behind a simple touch screen interface to provide easy to interpret results signalled with "traffic light" style indicators.
The unique power of BevScan® depends on an Australian developed technology called SimCal. By analysing a small number of known good bottles of wine with BevScan, a similarity signature (SimCal) is derived, against which unknown bottles are then compared. A SimCal value or “score” is determined for each unknown sample and either a match or mismatch is signalled by a simple red/green indicator and an easy-to-understand graph on the touch screen. Remarkably, a reading can be completed in just a few seconds so the device can process large numbers of samples quickly.
Jeffress Engineering Pty Ltd, a small privately held 100% Australian company manufacturing totally in Australia, has operated for more than 60 years and exports to over 30 countries worldwide. BevScan is distributed throughout Europe by Analytik, a supplier of innovative analytical instrumentation based in Cambridge, UK.
BevScan will be demonstrated at the 2011 London International Wine Fair, 17 – 19 May, on the stand of Jeffress Engineering Pty Ltd (stand H76).
To find out more, visit our BevScan product page.
BevScan through the bottle NIR beverage analyser
About…Analytik are suppliers of unique, high quality analytical instrumentation throughout UK and Ireland. Innovative solutions from leading global instrumentation manufacturers, coupled with unparalleled customer support have enabled Analytik to forge a reputation for excellence since forming in 2003. Analytik’s partners include DeltaNu, ASD, Ocean Optics, Videometer, Jeffress Engineering, CPS Instruments, GeSiM and Schmidt + Haensch. Solutions include portable NIR and handheld Raman spectrometers, spectral imaging systems, ultra-high resolution nano particle size analysers and non-contact nanolitre printers.
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