QBI was awarded an EPA small business grant to develop an agricultural water reuse system by combining a state-of-the-art real-time nutrient sensor with an artificial intelligence platform that will incorporate multiple streams of data to provide a "drop in" technology that can integrate with almost any type of low-input water reuse technology to enable simple, affordable, and sustainable water reclamation for a broad range of agricultural applications

The mission of the EPA’s SBIR Program is to support small businesses nationwide to develop technologies that provide sustainable solutions for environmental issues. These SBIR Phase I recipients are creating technologies that support clean and safe water, air quality and climate, homeland security, sustainable materials management/circular economy, safer chemicals, and risk assessment.