15-Minute C-Mount Microscope AI Retrofit & Automated Cell Counter (SKU-1)
Don't replace your R100,000+ Olympus or Zeiss microscopes. Our anodized aluminium Edge Bio-AI Appliance (Hailo-8 26 TOPS / Jetson 67 TOPS) threads directly onto your existing C-Mount trinocular port in 15 minutes—stitching 60 FPS live panoramas and pre-counting WBC differentials, Malaria rings, TB bacilli, and Pap cytology N/C ratios.
How It Works With Your Equipment & Sovereign Cloud Switchboard
Optical Compatibility
Universal 1-inch x 32 TPI C-Mount trinocular port + 23.2mm/30mm eyepiece drop-in adapter with parfocal locking collar.
Target Assays
5-Part WBC Peripheral Blood Smears, Malaria Giemsa (ring stages & % parasitemia), TB Ziehl-Neelsen/Auramine AFB, Cervical Pap LBC (Bethesda N/C ratio), & CASA Sperm Motility.
Edge AI Compute
Anodized 6061-T6 Aluminium Fanless Box (70% IPA / 10% bleach wipe-down rated) with Raspberry Pi 5 + Hailo-8 (26 TOPS) or NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano (67 TOPS).
LIMS & Regulatory
Reads slide barcode, strips patient PII in volatile RAM (<2 ms, POPIA Act 4), and drops reports into existing SMB/SFTP LIMS watch-folder. Includes SANAS ISO 15189 IQ/OQ/PQ binder.
Procurement, LIMS & Regulatory Answers
Will SKU-1 invalidate our annual Olympus or Zeiss optical calibration?
No. SKU-1 mounts strictly at the secondary C-mount camera port (or ocular tube) using a parfocal locking ring and NIST stage-micrometer software calibration—zero alteration to your microscope objectives or stage.
How does a manual microscope stage capture a whole-slide differential?
As the scientist smoothly pans the manual X-Y stage, our 60 FPS Sony IMX296 Global Shutter camera tracks optical flow in real time, stitches a live mosaic without double-counting cells, and chimes the instant 200 WBCs or 100 high-power fields are reached.
What does SKU-1 cost and does it require a public tender?
Hardware is supplied at transparent BOM cost + 15% (R16,445 to R28,500 ZAR). Even when bundled with our flagship R160,000 2-Week Custom AI Sprint (100% source code ownership), the combined total (R188,500–R193,925 ZAR) sits below the R200,000 public tender threshold.