Next table compares current commercial devices versus our objectives.
| D I S R U P T I V E A T T A I N A B L E F E A T U R E S | ||||
| Feature | Nowadays | Our proposal | ||
| Fabrication | Plastic Replication, Embedded glass microchannels without the sensing part | Thick Photoresist lithography, Lamination, Low Temp bonding, ebeam, allowing waveguides | ||
| Use | Trained personnel | Easy to use | ||
| Biological sample | ml of treated sample | nl of “raw” sample | ||
| Automatic protocol | (Manual) | Low reproducibility | (Fully Automatic) | High reproducibility |
| Easy contamination | No contamination | |||
| Time | 6 hours-1 day (Desktop instrument) | 15 minutes | ||
| 2-4 days (enrichment) | - | |||
| Size | Desktop instrument | Credit card size | ||
| Reagent bottles (enrichment) | (95mm x 60mm x 5mm) | |||
| Dead pathogen detection | Not all | Yes | ||
| Cost per analysis | 18 € | 3-5 € | ||
| Real Time | No (except some Desktop Instrument) | YES | ||
| Reagent used | ml | nl | ||