Inertia

The Spärkel is a home carbonation machine that allows users to infuse their water with delicious, fresh, and healthy ingredients – all without the need for clunky CO2 tanks. Instead, water mixes with a special formulation of high quality citric acid and sodium bicarbonate inside a sealed chamber. This generates CO2 gas that carbonates the water and squeezes natural flavours into specially engineered Spärkel bottles, made to withstand a great amount of pressure.

Services Provided:

Industrial Design, User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Workflow Analysis, Mechanical Engineering, Prototyping, Usability Testing, Durability Testing, and Manufacturing Launch Support

The AEVA is a modern, indoor, hydroponic garden system that’s sustainable, sleek, and able to provide fresh food all year round. It has the ability to grow over 200 different plant types, and provide up to 10 lbs of fresh, pesticide-free produce on a monthly basis.

Functional innovations inside the AEVA allow it to use no soil, create zero environmental run-off, and use 95% less water than traditional agriculture. And because of its uniquely designed water and light distribution, seeds germinate faster – ensuring a good root system and better overall plant health.

All of this results in ultra-fresh vegetables with a low environmental impact and the potential to alleviate stress on food supply chains.

Services Provided:

Industrial Design, Workflow Analysis, Mechanical Engineering, Prototyping, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management.

MRI scans can be a claustrophobic, anxiety-inducing, and often boring ordeal. To solve this, Inertia worked with Innovere Medical to redefine the MRI experience with an in-bore infotainment solution.

The final product, Innovision, allows patients to watch videos with sound while receiving their MRI scan. And to add to their comfort, the machine includes memory foam comfort pillows that reduce noise and deliver clear audio. Plus, to mitigate stress during their scan, a digital display makes the bore feel larger and keeps the patient informed of their remaining time.

Services Provided:

Industrial Design, User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Workflow Analysis, Prototyping, Usability Testing, Mechanical Engineering, Packaging Design, Graphic Design, Illustrations, Instruction Manuals, Injection Mold Tooling, and Mechanical Component Manufacturing & Supply

Nexus Robotics engaged Inertia Product Development to help design and manufacture an autonomous, AI-powered weed-picking robot.  Roughly the size of a minivan, and affectionately called “La Chevre”, the driverless robot uses cameras and its neural network to selectively pick weeds without damaging a farmer’s crops.

Designed for vegetable farmers, La Chevre is invaluable when herbicides are either ineffective or undesired in managing weed encroachment. Automated weed picking also results in improved crop yields at a significantly lower cost per acre / per year  than traditional manual labour methods can deliver.

Beyond its picking capabilities, La Chevre is constantly learning and feeding data back into its neural network. Capable of working around the clock, La Chevre collects data from the crop at all stages of growth and records growing conditions throughout the season. This information empowers the farmer to make efficient and timely decisions relating to soil fertility and disease remediation.

Services Provided:

Product Strategy, Product Architecture, Workflow Analysis, Industrial Design, Vehicle Design, User Interface Design,  Mechanical Engineering, Vibration Isolation, Finite Element Analysis, CAD Development, Electrical Engineering, PCB Design, Power Electronics, Vision System, Lighting System, Propulsion System, Robotics Manipulators, High Performance Distributed Embedded Computing System (AI support), Series Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Design, Prototype Assembly, and Mechanical Component Manufacturing & Supply, Sourcing