Lab / What is Aeralyte
The lab

A research lab giving machines a sense of smell.

Machines can already see, hear, move, and speak. They still mostly cannot smell — and smell is chemical information the physical world is full of.

What we build

Aeralyte is building the full smell intelligence stack, not a single gas sensor: controlled air sampling, compact electronic-nose arrays, on-device AI, calibration protocols, and rigorous experimental methods. The intelligence lives in the loop between air, sensor, model, protocol, and deployment.

The ladder

01 · SenseDetect chemical changes in air.
02 · InterpretClassify smell fingerprints.
03 · TraceLocate sources and understand context.
04 · PredictDetect risk before visible symptoms.
05 · SynthesizeModel and reproduce scent signatures.

Where we are now

We have designed the air-sampling protocol, the electronic-nose sensor array, the ESP32-S3 firmware, and the truth-gated analysis pipeline that turns sensor responses into smell fingerprints. The bench is live: the board is flashed and three sensor families are returning real readings. We are completing the rig and moving into controlled chamber experiments.

What we are chasing first: repeatable smell fingerprints on our own bench hardware — and the discipline to publish only what each stage of evidence supports.

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