Lifeonics

Lifeonics is a New Zealand private company developing and commercializing analytical instrumentation for microbiology and cell-culture monitoring. Its flagship product, SMOD, is a wireless bio-photometer that measures real-time optical density (OD600) and temperature in microbial and suspension cell cultures. The company appears to focus on research and bioprocess workflows rather than therapeutics, serving laboratories working with bacteria and yeast for applications such as plasmid production and recombinant protein development. Lifeonics combines biotechnology, microbiology, electronics, and sensor engineering to improve productivity and quality in laboratory culture monitoring.