Kontrol Energy Biocloud mit RealTime Covid-19 Scan

Kontrol will begin the commercialization process of BioCloud by initiating an application to the CSA Group. CSA is a leader in Standards Development and in Testing, Inspection and Certification around the world including Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia. The CSA registered mark shows that a product has been independently tested and certified to meet recognized standards for safety or performance. Kontrol anticipates that a CSA approval can take from 30 to 45 days to complete and Kontrol has a history of working with CSA on various air quality and emission products. During the process of CSA approval, Kontrol will seek to establish lower detection limits of the COVID-19 virus. Lower detection limit specifications are part of the commercial specifications that Kontrol will deliver for a fully commercialized product.

"We are very pleased to start the process of sharing our technology with the market through the commencement of commercialization," says Gary Saunders, VP of Kontrol. "We want to thank our lab partners for all of their expertise and dedication. The lab procedures involved significant planning and preparation to execute meticulous testing against the live COVID-19 virus. We look forward to sharing our results with all levels of Government in the coming days and weeks ahead."

Manufacturing Capacity

Kontrol has commenced discussions with two global outsource contract manufacturers who can provide Kontrol with external manufacturing capacity. Kontrol is not making any statements or assumptions about potential revenues, however, Kontrol is planning for up to 20,000 BioCloud units per month as manufacturing capacity. This is part of Kontrol's prudent overall planning and access to manufacturing capability.

About Kontrol BioCloud

BioCloud is a real-time analyzer designed to detect airborne viruses. It has been designed to operate as a safe space technology by sampling the air quality over time. With a proprietary detection chamber that can be replaced as needed, viruses are detected, and an alert system is created in the Cloud or over local intranet. BioCloud has been designed for spaces where individuals gather including classrooms, retirement homes, hospitals, mass transportation and others. It can be an important technology which supports the entire system of individual testing and contact tracing.

The Company is not making any express or implied claims that its product has the ability to eliminate, cure or contain the COVID-19 (or SARS-2 Coronavirus).

About Kontrol Energy

Kontrol Energy Corp. (CSE: KNR) (OTCQB: KNRLF) (FSE: 1K8) is a leader in the energy efficiency sector through IoT, Cloud and SaaS technology. With a disciplined mergers and acquisition strategy, combined with organic growth, Kontrol Energy Corp. provides market-based energy solutions to our customers designed to reduce their overall cost of energy while providing a corresponding reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Kontrol Energy is one of Canada's fastest growing companies in 2018 and 2019 as ranked by Canadian Business and Maclean's.

"I think this is just another test being marketed with absolutely no robust, independent validation and testing, and I would say I am extremely sceptical on its use."

He said that it would need "an incredible amount of independent testing".

He also said it was unclear what the procedure for schools and businesses would be if the alarm sounded: "How exactly one would act if Covid in the air was detected is rather beyond me."

Kontrol said it would be up to the administrator of the device to decide how to proceed, but it would allow "outbreaks to be contained".

The firm received a $50,000 (£38,000) grant from the National Research Council of Canada to develop its BioCloud device.

Each unit will cost an estimated $12,000 and the firm hopes to be able to manufacture up to 20,000 per month.

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A coronavirus ‘game changer’: Canadian company claims it can detect virus in the air

By Jeff Semple Global News


Ontario-based Kontrol Energy Corp. claims to have made a game-changing device that can detect COVID-19 particles in the air. Jeff Semple explains how the device works, and how it could be used.
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A company in southwestern Ontario claims to have developed game-changing technology that can detect COVID-19 particles in the air.

Kontrol Energy Corp. specializes in indoor air quality and its monitoring equipment is typically used to scan for dangerous gases in industrial facilities. But when COVID-19 arrived, company CEO Paul Ghezzi wondered if their technology could be repurposed for the pandemic.

“In March, we asked the question: Could we measure for COVID like we do these very small particulates that we’re looking for in industrial facilities, including volatile organic compounds? We had no idea,” Ghezzi told Global News outside the company’s headquarters in Vaughan, Ont.

READ MORE: CDC removes new coronavirus guidelines on airborne transmission, cites ‘error’

Working with two microbiology labs in London, Ont., including a research lab at Western University where COVID-19 samples are stored, the company developed a device called BioCloud.

Based on the above 3 points, we can safely say that Kontrol has experienced developing, certifying, building a supply chain and sales network for technologies to be deployed in industrial, commercial and institutional properties.

We can also say that their current clients have potentially hundreds of millions of square footage under management that need to be protected. Consider that Brookfield Properties has over 27 million square feet of office space alone in Toronto and New-York alone (source), Toyota has plants all over the world (source) and Oxford has a global luxury portfolio of assets (source).

On repeated occasions, notably in this interview on the CBC and in the September 11 news release, Kontrol has stated that one of the first use cases for the BioClous would be in schools. Considering the average classroom size in square feet is about 900 sqft in the United States (source) and in Canada is about 750 sqft (source), we will infer that each BioCloud unit is being designed and tested to cover an area of approximately 1,000 sqft.

We will also assume that as publicly stated BioCloud is going to be selling for USD $12,000 and that supply chain capacity is 20,000 units per month (source).

Therefore, we could infer that Brookfield will require 27,000 units (27,000,000/1,000) for their Toronto and New-York office space alone which could generate USD $320,000,000 (that's about CAD $421,000,000) in revenu and 1.5 months of production capacity to fill the order(s).

Now the above example is extremely simplistic. For example, elevators are not 1,000 sqft and could each require one BioCloud unit; building managers may not put a unit in a janitorial closet or low traffic open space areas. That being said, even if we cut the numbers in half, Brookfield could generate hundreds of millions in sales for Kontrol’s BioCloud. Just based on Kontrol’s current clients, we believe there is a multi-billion dollar opportunity on the table.

Here is another fun example: there are about 2,000,000 students in publicly funded schools in Ontario (source) and roughly 26 students per class (source) which equates to roughly 77,000 classrooms. If one unit is required per class, that is USD $924,000,000 (CAD $1,217,000,000) in revenu and could take up to almost 4 months of capacity to fill the order. That’s just public schools in Ontario. Not private schools. Not the rest of Canada. Not universities.

We are by no means suggesting that Kontrol will have a market penetration rate of 100% but anyone with basic analytical skills and a calculator can see that the market size here is enormous, many billions of dollars annually we think.

Based on the very limited examples above, it may not be surprising for the production capacity to max out pretty quickly if the sales channels perform well. So, if the demand dramatically outpaces supply, what will that do to pricing? Could Kontrol hypothetically raise prices?

Potential impact on the stock

We are of the opinion that based on all of the publicly available information disseminated by Kontrol, our confidence in management, some basic calculations and a good dose of speculative fervor, KNR has the potential to trade up 500% even 1,000% or more from the closing price of $4.88 on Friday September 11, 2020. That’s right, we think KNR could trade up to $25.00 or $50.00 or more.

We think that for a variety of factors, KNR stock could could be compared to:

PyroGenesis (PYR) because of a similar high insider ownership and financial profile. PYR  has had a monster run in 2020 from a low of about $0.19, a market cap of about $28M, to a high of $6.43 and a market cap of over $900M.
Sona Nanotech (SONA) for being an innovator in the COVID-19 industry. SONA has also had a monster run in 2020. In fact we brought SONA to your attention at $0.51 and a $36M market cap in our March 16 Coronavirus article. SONA subsequently traded up to $16.05 and a market cap of $965M, an ROI of over 3,000% from our publication date.
As at September 1, 2020 KNR has 31.5M shares out, 41% insider ownership and a float that is getting increasingly tighter as people find out about the story. We believe that, based on everything we have outlined and many other factors including but not limited to the fact that the 2 main comparables in the Canadian small-cap universe have run to 900M market caps, KNR will also have a run to 900M or about $28.00. That’s the raw speculators bet.

The more informed speculative bet would be that Kontrol Energy quickly maxes out capacity for the production of the BioCloud units because there is literally no competition in the market and the demand is absolutely mind blowingly huge. At a max capacity of 20,000 units selling at USD $12,000, Kontrol sales would be around USD $240,000,000 per month or about USD $2,880,000,000 (that's 2.88 billion). Given that KNR is listed in Canada and reports in CAD that number is about CAD $3.8 billion in sales.

In our experience, small and mid-cap companies tend to get a valuation close to 2x sales in the public markets. All things being constant in the above known facts, the basic extrapolation here could yield us a potential stock price of $120 (!). Even if we take that wild $120 inference, cut it in half (120/2=60) and knock off another $10, you get to $50 which is 10x and a bit from $4.88.

Bull and Bear Cases

In the Bull case, what happens if demand wildly outpaces production capacity for the BioCloud? What happens if there is rampant speculation frenzie and the stock trades at 10x sales or more like Tesla (TSLA), Shopify (SHOP) and the rest of the tech darlings? What happens if the COVID-19 pandemic lasts for multiple years and intensifies? Would KNR trade past $120?

In the Bear case, what happens if there is suddenly a universal vaccine and immediate global inoculation or a competitor is commercialized tomorrow? We obviously think these are lower probabilities but, even if there was a black swan type event for Kontrol, there is a profitable and growing business that pre-dates the BioCloud business line and we think the BioCloud line would still book considerable sales.

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