Independent Innovations develops instruments and devices that grow out of practical engineering problems, often beginning with a need to measure, verify, or understand something better than existing tools allow.
Rejuvulite
Controlled red and near-infrared light delivery with integrated dose measurement.
Rejuvulite was the first Independent Innovations product and the project that ultimately led to a broader investigation of optical measurement.
Rather than estimating delivered dose solely from treatment time and nominal optical output, Rejuvulite uses closed-loop measurement to monitor the light delivered during a session and confirm the accumulated optical dose.
Developing and calibrating Rejuvulite required accurately characterizing its optical output. That measurement work exposed a larger question: how well can the output of other red and near-infrared devices—particularly large LED panels—be measured under the conditions in which they are actually used?
Rejuvulite output measured against a NIST-traceable Thorlabs S121C reference sensor.
Optiverity — In Development
Exploring better ways to measure and characterize optical irradiance.
Optiverity began as an effort to solve a practical problem encountered while working with red and near-infrared light devices: determining the irradiance actually delivered by a panel at the user’s treatment position.
The project has since expanded into a broader investigation of optical measurement.
Current development is exploring the use of multiple optical sensors, spectral information, precision data acquisition, distance and orientation measurements, and calibration to characterize light sources more completely than a conventional single-value irradiance meter.
Red and near-infrared therapeutic devices remain an important application, but the underlying measurement problem extends to other light sources as well. Horticultural lighting is one area currently being investigated, where both optical intensity and spectral distribution are important to understanding the light available to plants.
Optiverity remains an active development project. Its final measurement capabilities and applications will be determined through calibration, characterization, and validation of the instrument as development progresses.
Ongoing Development
Independent Innovations is not limited to a predetermined product roadmap. New projects often emerge from problems encountered while developing or measuring something else.
The common thread is an engineering approach: understand the physical problem, build what is needed to investigate it, measure the result, and allow the evidence to guide what comes next.