Our Story
In 2015, Polio and Pentavalent vaccine worth more than Rs. 400 Million was spoiled due to inadequate temperature control and monitoring. This made up national news headlines and also caught our attention. FIA investigation revealed that the vaccine was not expired but spoiled because the correct temperature could not be maintained in the store room. We further did an extensive outreach into various hospitals, pharmacies and blood banks and found out that there was no effective mechanism for temperature monitoring of vaccines, drugs and blood storage in Pakistan. As per common practice, temperature is recorded manually twice or thrice a day on paper-based logs while there is no system in place for generating alerts if temperature exceeds the desired range. To address this grave issue our company indigenously developed an internet of things (IoT)-based real-time temperature monitoring system, that senses temperatures at few minutes’ intervals, saves temperature data online and generates alerts when cold chain breaks.
Our Team
Farrukh Bhatti
Co-Founder and CEO
Farrukh holds a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Auckland. He has immense experience of working with academia and industry. He has lead several R&D projects related to cognitive radios, 5G, computer vision, machine learning and bio-signal processing. Some of these were done with industrial partners. His passion is to digitize industrial processes using internet of things (IoT) to enhance their efficiency which led him to co-found NewVative. He loves to read about entrepreneurship, psychology, neuro science, leadership, personal development etc.
Ibbtisam Asim
Team Lead
In final year of his BS, Ibbtisam found his passion in automation, controls and IoT. He has an immense experience of working on several development projects such as Design of ADS-B IN and OUT system, controller design for stratospheric balloon, hardware platform for Computer Vision based parts Inspection Machine, Attitude Control of Spacecraft with consideration of failures in AOCS, measurement of CORS site deviation due to seismic activities and different other projects for home and industrial automation.
Moazam Maqsood
Co-Founder and CTO
Moazam got his PhD degree from the University of Surrey, UK. He works at the Institute of Space Technology where he obtained a vast experience of managing various R&D projects. He has worked with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.; a leading satellite manufacturer. He also has experience of managing big projects and handling large teams. He is a strong believer of industry-academia linkage and tech entrepreneurship. He always motivates his students to undertake projects that address practical problems and also have commercial value. He sees great value in using IoT for healthcare as well as other industrial applications.
Saad Athar
Head of Business Development Karachi Region
Saad is a qualified Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA) from the UK with experience of working with well-known retail industry companies in the UK and UAE. He was head of Risk Management at Pakistan Oxygen Limited (Formerly BOC Group) where he worked closely on risk mitigation in laboratories, Hospitals and Pharma industry that is why he understands the importance of having reliable quality of monitoring instruments that can not only improve operation efficiency but also can mitigate financial losses.
“The care and attention to detail paid by the whole team at Stratus Co is really second to none. It comes as no surprise to me that they work with some of the industry leaders and attract top talent worldwide”
Sara Jones
Client