THE PROBLEM
People risk their lives and get tickets for drunk driving. Every day drivers risk others’ life and their own. There are several reasons why having a personal breathalyzer with you is recommended now more than ever.
THE SOLUTION
FLOOME can monitor your Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) and it gives you the necessary time to recover if you are above the legal limit.
FLOOME combines in a high accuracy, fashion design, and price. FLOOME has unmatched features, such as:
• Endless battery life•! Sleek Italian design and best usability on the market • International patent pending technology covering the professional grade accuracy, battery life and low manufacturing costs • Retail price • High accuracy; same sensors used by law enforcement officers • Connects to any iPhone, Android or Windows smartphone through the standard headphone jack • The proprietary app displays the BAC as well as other helpful and relevant information like the time to recovery • Customizable colors and limited branded versions (with car TMs, and alike).
2. THE PROBLEM
People risk their lives and get tickets for drunk driving. Every day drivers
risk others’ life and their own. There are several reasons why having a
personal breathalyzer with you is recommended now more than ever:
! 25% of car accidents is related to DUI (Driving under influence)
! legal BAC (Blood alcohol content) level dropped in key countries like
the US
! Increasingly more countries will require the presence of a Breathalyzer
in the car
! Cheap breathalyzers are pointless because they use semiconductor
technology which is not meant to measure alcohol, but just detect it.
On the other side, the expensive ones are accurate but bulky, ugly
and make use of batteries. Definitely something people don't want to
carry or use in public.
3. THE SOLUTION
FLOOME can monitor your Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) through
your smartphone and it gives you the necessary time to recover if you
are above the legal limit.
FLOOME combines in a high accuracy, fashion design, and price.
FLOOME has unmatched features.
4. FEATURES
! High accuracy: same sensors used by law
enforcement officers
! Endless battery life
! Sleek Italian design and best usability on the
market
! International patent pending technology
covering the professional grade accuracy,
battery life and low manufacturing costs
! Connects to any iPhone, Android or Windows
smartphone through the standard
headphone jack
! The proprietary app displays the BAC as well
as other helpful and relevant information like
the time to recovery, nearest taxi etc…
! Retail price
! Customizable colors and limited branded
versions (with car TMs, and alike).
! 24g – 50x76x16.5 mm
5. APP FEATURES
Time to recovery Based on inputs on height, weight and gender, the app uses Floome’s
results and determines exactly how long it will take for users to re-test themselves before
driving safely.
Alarms for repeat tests Users can set up alarms so that Floome can remind them when to
re-test their BAC and thus check on their recovery process.
Taxi calls The app provides information on how to call local cabs.
Social connections Lets users share photos of tests and graphs previous results.
6. IP & VORTEX TECHNOLOGY
! Professional accuracy breathalyzers, like Floome,
need to calculate the BAC concentration and the
user’s respiratory volume .
! Floome is based on an innovative technology; a
special vortex whistle matched with a fuel
cell ethanol sensor.
! The vortex whistle is a particular kind of flow meter.
This allows measuring the total volume of breath
flowing air passing through the fuel cell sensor.
! 2045Tech has filed a PCT patent application on the
technology that allows cost-effective production
while maintaining the high precision of professional
breathalyzers.
7. MARKET FACTS AND FORECASTS
BREATHALYZER MARKET
! 2015: 1.3 B$
! +100K monthly Google
searches of terms like
"breathalyzer" and "smartphone
breathalyzer" worldwide
(excluding China)
! 2016: 1.8 B$
PARTNERSHIPS
! 2014: 0.9 B$
! 2017: 2.3 B$
! 2018: 3.2 B$
(*Winter green research report forecasts, 2012)
! Automotive companies – to offer a
cool gadget related to the
purchase of a car or as an aftermarket accessory
! Spirits companies - to educate their
clients and offer a cool gadget
! Insurance companies - to obtain
discounts on premiums on insurance
policies for virtuous customers
8. BEHIND GREAT PRODUCTS,
THERE IS ALWAYS A GREAT TEAM
Fabio Penzo
Marco Barbetta
CEO & Co-Founder
CTO & Co-Founder
He dreams of a future where smart and
useful technologies meet beauty. As
an entrepreneur, he wants to play an
important role in this vision.
His academic experience taught him
how to plan and execute technology
research, as well as how to carry on a
project until the implementation of the
final product, possibly finding the
smartest solution to practical problems.
Luca Escoffier
Efrat Kasznik
Chief Legal Counsel
Advisor
He lives between Italy, United States,
and Japan, and with more than 12
years of experience in different fields,
he is responsible for negotiating, and
executing a wide variety of
agreements, and advise the
executives within the company.
She is an intellectual property (IP) and
valuation expert, with close to 20 years
of experience assisting companies with
bringing their innovation to market.
9. ENDORSMENTS AND AWARDS
Bruno Murari
Inventor of the accelerometer
ST Microelectronics
"When I first met the team of
2045Tech, I was rather impressed
by their enthusiasm and technical
skills. The whole team has a solid
background in different fields and
this gives them the ability to
improve each aspect of their
innovations.
Their new method for Breath
Alcohol Measurement is really
revolutionary and I strongly
believe this product will impact in
a near future onto people habits.”
Roberta Bertani
Associate Professor, Department of
Chemical Processes for Engineering,
University of Padova
“I’m helping the R&D team of
2045Tech on the process of
calibration and metrological
verification. I notice high accuracy
and good scientific method on the
way they are managing the
measurements in the verification
campaign that is being carried on
as I write.”
COOL IDEA AWARDS FROM PROTOLABS
“FLOOME, a universal smartphone accessory that provides users with accurate and
reliable blood-alcohol readings has joined the ranks of some of the most promising
hardware innovations as a Proto Labs (NYSE:PRLB) Cool Idea! Award recipient”