NIR WATCHDOG
The intelligence layer for physical material verification.
NIR WatchDog turns portable spectrometers into intelligent inspection points:
verify more materials, more often, in seconds.
Active 3-year $155K design-partner contract
UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG SPIN-OFF
DESIGN PARTNER BRIEFING · 2026
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02 · A DAY IN THE FIELD
Michelle inspects shops for fakes every day.
Today the lab answers days later.
A market-surveillance inspector. Food supplements, chocolate bars, medicines: her job is to catch the fake before it is sold.
TODAY · DAYS PER CASE
1
Visits the suspicious shop and buys the suspect product.
2
Bags it, labels it, ships it to the laboratory.
3
Waits days for the result. The case stalls.
4
By the time the verdict arrives, the batch has been sold.
WITH NIR WATCHDOG · SECONDS
1
Scans the product in the shop with a handheld NIR device.
2
The spectral fingerprint is matched against the validated reference model.
3
Verdict on the spot: product name, PASS or FAIL, GPS location, time.
4
A signed, timestamped evidence record is created. The lab only confirms.
FIELD LOG · ONE MORNING
Chocolate bar, 100 g
Shop 1 · 49.611° N, 6.130° E · 10:02
PASS
Supplement capsules
Shop 2 · 49.603° N, 6.126° E · 10:41
PASS
Captopril 25 mg tablets
Shop 3 · 49.598° N, 6.119° E · 11:14
FAIL
Each record carries the NIR fingerprint, product, model version, location, time and hash.
Three verdicts before lunch, each with its evidence.
NIR WatchDog turns a week of waiting into a verdict on the spot: product, fingerprint, location, time.
Illustrative scenario. Coordinates are Luxembourg City; location and time are captured from the device at scan time.
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03 · THE PROBLEM
Companies can identify any material.
They cannot afford to check every batch.
Labs are accurate, but central, slow and expensive, so most goods are never tested
COUNTERFEIT IMPORTS · EU
€99B
4.7% of all EU imports
Global trade in fakes: $467B, 2.3% of world imports (OECD / EUIPO, 2025)
FAKES STOPPED AT THE US BORDER · FY2025
$7.3B
79M items seized
and that is only what gets caught. US brands are the world's most counterfeited (CBP; OECD / EUIPO)
When the material is a medicine, the cost is lives: 267,000 deaths a year are linked to falsified anti-malarials in sub-Saharan Africa alone (UNODC, 2023).
NIR WatchDog brings verification to the point of decision:
portable scanners plus AI, deviations flagged on the spot
ANY solid or liquid material
Sources: OECD / EUIPO, Mapping Global Trade in Fakes 2025 (2021 customs data); US CBP, FY2025 IPR seizure statistics; UNODC (2023), threat assessment on trafficking in medical products.
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04 · THE TEAM
Researchers who ship, builders who scale
INCORPORATED 2023
UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG INCUBATOR
Eddie Berkovitch, MBA
CEO
Dr. Jorge Meira
COO
Dr. Hui Huang
Chief Scientist
Prof. Radu State
Scientific co-founder · SnT, Uni.lu
Dr. Wazen Shbair
Blockchain & XRPL
Ilias Sviatko
Software Architect
Leonard Perry
SW Partner · ex-Head of R&D, Viber
Nino Chaganava
Projects Coordination
FNR JUMP GRANT, 2020 · BLOCKSPRINT HACKATHON, 1ST PRIZE, 2020 · RIPPLE XRPL ACCELERATOR + SPECIAL AWARD, 2023
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05 · THE SOLUTION
From scan to trusted verdict
in seconds.
1
SCAN
Any portable NIR device and our app; our own phone-sized device with an embedded NIR sensor is in development. Line, warehouse, border.
2
SCORE
Our engine compares it with validated reference models.
Trained once per material
device-agnostic.
3
DECIDE
PASS or FAIL in seconds: authentic, deviating or anomalous.
4
PROVE
Every scan and model version can be hashed, signed and timestamped on the XRP Ledger: an audit trail regulators can check.
The intelligence layer above scanners, any scanner.
ANY NIR DEVICE
96–99% ACCURACY IN PILOTS
LIVE ON iOS & ANDROID
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06 · TRACTION
96–99% accuracy on food and pharma.
Commercial since 2023.
New models, new materials, one platform.
96–99%
accuracy across six materials
$155K
PM International 3-year R&D contract (€132K)
2023
incorporated in Luxembourg
iOS + Android
app live in the stores
VALIDATED MATERIALS
Chocolate packaging
2019–21
96%
Paracetamol
2021–22
98%
Powders & molasses
2022–23
98%
Oyster provenance
2024
98%
Water quality
2024
99%
Food supplements
2025–26
ongoing
COMMERCIAL · SINCE INCORPORATION 2023
2023
Kerry Group research · Ripple XRPL accelerator award
2024
Oyster provenance and water-quality models delivered
2025–26
PM International 3-year R&D contract, ongoing
2026
App live on iOS & Android · US market entry
FNR JUMP GRANT · UNI.LU INCUBATOR · IP REGISTRATION IN PROGRESS
WORKED WITH
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07 · WHY THE US, WHY NOW
The US window is open:
enforcement is live, budgets exist.
MARKET READY
Enforcement is live
Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) is in force for manufacturers, wholesalers and large pharmacies since 2025. Detecting and removing suspect product is a legal duty, and the FDA is enforcing it.
Small pharmacies: exempt to Nov 2027.
A FOCUSED FIRST BUYER
QA leaders
At supplement and pharma manufacturers with an incoming-material inspection workflow. They buy from the quality budget that already exists; no new budget line needed.
A MEASURABLE PILOT
One material, one site
Agreed validation criteria, inspection time, cost per sample and error rate, and a clear path to a full deployment. The product is live: we demo it on the spot.
What we are looking for: design partners who want to prove physical verification on their own materials.
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08 · WORK WITH US
Run a prototype with us: one material, one site, your scanner.
A prototype project is deliberately small: your reference samples, a model we train and validate, and the success criteria agreed up front: inspection time, cost per sample and error rate.
WHAT A PROTOTYPE PROJECT WITH US LOOKS LIKE
Your samples in, a validated model out
Book a 20-minute live demo on your material
Nothing gets past it.
EDDIE BERKOVITCH · EDDIE@NIR-WATCHDOG.LU · +352 621 52 98 53
NIRWATCHDOG.LU
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Appendix
A1 Competition
A2 Product demo
A3 How training works
BACKUP SLIDES · FOR Q&A
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A1 · COMPETITION
Everyone else sells a scanner.
We sell the intelligence layer.
COMPANY · PRODUCT | AI INTEGRATION | MOBILE | NIR DEVICE
Tellspec Food Sensor | ● Full | ● App + cloud | ○ Native only
Consumer Physics SCiO | ● Partial | ● Native mobile | ○ Native only
Si-Ware Systems NeoSpectra | ● Full | ● Via scan app | ○ Native only
Spectral Engines NIROne Scanner | ● Partial | ● SDK options | ○ Native only
B&W Tek (Metrohm) NanoRam | ● Limited | ● Limited | ○ Native only
NIR WatchDog Analytics platform | ● Trainable | ● Native app | ● Any device
● FULL ● PARTIAL / LIMITED ○ TIED TO OWN HARDWARE
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A2 · PRODUCT DEMO
We are on iOS and Android
NIR WatchDog is in the app stores. Scan, authenticate and review results from a phone. No lab, no training course.
▶ Watch the demo video
youtu.be/ULUV4nAbAE0
↓ Download on the App Store
NIR WATCHDOG · iOS & ANDROID
A3 · HOW TRAINING WORKS
Train once, inspect continuously, prove everything
TRAINING
Reference samples
validated authentic material
→
NIR fingerprinting
spectral signatures captured
→
Model training
deep learning + transfer learning
→
Model library
per material, per device
INSPECTION
Field scan
any portable NIR device + mobile app
→
AI comparison
against the validated model
→
Verdict in seconds
authentic · deviating · anomalous
↓
EVIDENCE ON BLOCKCHAIN
Both flows feed one data-analysis core. Every scan and model version is hashed, signed and timestamped on the XRP Ledger: spectra, device ID, location, result, an immutable audit trail for regulators and customers.
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