Mission Statement

To employ our scientific capabilities in the
service of our customers’ needs.

With headquarters in the heart of Tucson, Arizona’s world famous Optics Valley, BioVigilant Systems has brought together a team of preeminent researchers and scientists from around the globe. This team is comprised of individuals who are pioneers and first-rate thought leaders in the fields of optical physics and optical microbial detection and who, collectively, as BioVigilant Systems, invented the highly useful technology now referred to as “Instantaneous Microbial Detection."

Using the technology it invented, BioVigilant’s engineers created two classes of instruments: the IPD (Instantaneous Particle Detector), and the IMD (Instantaneous Microbial Detector.)

BioVigilant’s technology was originally developed to meet the demanding specifications of the U.S. military and Homeland Security for real time detection of the presence of airborne weaponized bio-agents such as bacillus anthracis. After considering the technical requirements and analyzing the suitability of existing technology for particle detection and sizing (much of which was invented 20 or more years ago), BioVigilant decided that existing methods contained fundamental design limitations that would keep BioVigilant from accomplishing its task. A new approach with a fundamentally different design would be required.

Using an innovative optical design, the scientists at BioVigilant Systems invented a unique method and technology to count and size very small particles to a sensitivity level and at lower costs not possible using existing technology. As an additional benefit, this new technology allowed BioVigilant to concurrently determine, for each individual particle, if that particle was inert or biologic. In addition to its application within homeland security, this combination of technologies is now being applied to the fields of pharmaceutical manufacturing, medical device manufacturing, food processing, personal care manufacturing, and other areas where Instantaneous Microbial Detection is of benefit.