Ecotera Asia
Scalable AI Water & Health Innovation for Asia and Beyond
AI at Ecotera Asia:
Real-World Intelligence
Beyond Object Detection
We use AI not just to recognize images, but to interpret optical assays, generate environmental insights, and support scalable decision-making.
Optical Assay AI - Not Object Detection
Conventional computer vision methods, like object detection, are incompatible with detecting nanoplastics or smaller microplastics. Instead, we use changes in visual patterns and structures to detect microplastics and nanopalstics directly in water as well as other contaminants such as copper in R&D.
Beyond Object Detection: AI for Optical Assays and Real-World Diagnostic Intelligence
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19873271
Water Intelligence
Introduces a modular smartphone platform expandable from plastics to metals, turbidity, surfactants, and future analytes.
Toward a Multi-Analyte Smartphone Platform for Scalable Global Water Intelligence: Beyond Microplastics/Nanoplastics
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19675066
Geospatial Intelligence
Presents decentralized sensing networks capable of generating dense real-world environmental data.
Distributed Environmental Sensing Networks: A Framework for Scalable Global Water Intelligence
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19475218
Human Health Prediction
We are developing urine and blood diagnostics with goal of understanding human exposure levels and evaluating any links to diseases such as cancer, dementia, male and female infertility, endocrine or cardiometabolic disorders. This will allow us to develop AI models to asssess personalized risk to any microplastic/nanoplastic-related diseases.
Status:
- Urine Diagnostic Development with US FDA Regulatory filings and human samples
- Blood Diagnostic: Proof-of-Concept Simulated Blood
A Multi-Matrix Approach to Microplastic and Nanoplastic Detection Across Environmental and Biological Samples
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19462123
Human Health Impacts and Tissue Deposition of Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Organ-System Summary (April 2026)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19663994
Toward a Policy-Driven Data Flywheel for Scalable Real-Time Water Intelligence: A Framework for Decentralized Environmental Monitoring
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19648571