Your instruments don't hear it. Our dogs do. When a lithium-ion battery seal breaches, the electrolyte carbonates reach the air. That's the signal a trained dog finds — before the failure becomes a fire.
Your Li-ion Tamer and NevadaNano systems are built to catch a battery that is already failing — the vent, the gas build-up. Our dogs find the trace electrolyte of a breaching battery weeks earlier, while it is still a quiet leak. Same timeline. Earlier point. No overlap, no competition.
Finds the trace electrolyte of a breaching battery while it is still a quiet, room-temperature leak — the window before anything spikes.
Catches the sudden vent — a rapid concentration jump of 10 ppm/sec. Built to see the spike, not the slow leak that precedes it.
Guards the atmosphere as gas approaches explosive levels (%LEL). The last line — and orders of magnitude above a trace leak.
Your existing systems stay exactly where they are, doing exactly what they do best. We simply add the layer nothing else is watching.
We're selecting a small number of facilities as founding-partner sites. As a founding partner, your audit is at no cost — and together we generate the first field-validation data for canine breach detection in live battery environments. If you'd like to see whether your site qualifies, reach out.
Canine sensitivity figures reflect published olfaction research (Concha et al., Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019), not Advanced BioAnalytic field measurements. Founding partners generate the first field data.
Thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries begins long before visible signs. The electrolyte solvents — dimethyl carbonate (DMC), ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC), and diethyl carbonate (DEC) — are sealed inside a healthy battery. When that seal is compromised, those compounds reach the air.
That moment of breach is the earliest possible warning. Fixed gas sensors on a data center floor aren't sensitive enough to catch it. Our dogs are.
Field precedent: U.S. FAA flight-line battery detection program (DOT/FAA/TCTN-23/63, 2023) and WFS / DiagNose six-month air-cargo trial (Lyon, 2022) confirm operational canine detection of lithium-battery odor. ABA's electrolyte-specific approach adds selectivity to distinguish a failing battery from a healthy one.
This distinction is the whole point. Lithium and battery hardware are present in every intact battery in your data center. A dog trained on them would alert on thousands of healthy batteries and tell you nothing useful.
Our dogs are imprinted on the three electrolyte solvents — DMC, EMC, DEC — that are sealed inside a sound battery and only reach the air when a seal is breached. They ignore every healthy battery and alert only on a compromised one.
| Target | Present in healthy battery | Released on breach | Trained on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lithium metal | ✓ | — | No |
| Battery casing / PCB | ✓ | — | No |
| DMC · EMC · DEC (electrolytes) | Sealed | ✓ On breach | Yes — target |
"No competitor has this. A dog that can work inside a live server room without generating a single spark."The ESD Harness — Advanced BioAnalytic
The electrostatic discharge (ESD) harness is an exclusive Advanced BioAnalytic invention. Custom-built by an Amish harness maker who hand-sews silver thread directly into the harness material.
That silver thread captures static electricity from the dog's coat and carries it through the harness to a grounding chain — preventing any spark risk inside a live server room. Traditional craftsmanship. Data center safety engineering. One purpose.
Our dogs also wear military-grade hearing protectors in environments with active cooling fans and UPS systems.
Rocco is a Labrador Retriever purpose-trained for lithium electrolyte detection — in active scent training since February 2024. Bred from Labncroft Partnership's four concurrent working Lab pedigree lines, a 100-year family tradition rooted in field-performance genetics going back to 1880s Setter dogs.
These are independently judged AKC titles earned in competition — across every Scent Work element (Container, Interior, Exterior, Buried) at Novice and Advanced levels. A third party has repeatedly verified each dog's ability to find target odors and work past distractions in varied real-world settings.
Our dogs reliably alert on all three target carbonates under controlled lab conditions — 64 scent points, 750 CFM active airflow, proofed against common data-center distractors including isopropyl alcohol, Deoxit, CRC QD contact cleaner, Staticide, and propylene glycol.
The next step is field validation inside a live data center: real rack airflow, fan noise, and background scent environment. That's where we generate the quantified metrics this program hasn't yet measured outside the lab — detection rate, localization accuracy, and false-alarm rate.
Founding-partner sites become part of the scientific record. Your facility's validated data contributes to a peer-reviewed foundation for this service line — and founding partners are named in that documentation.
We're currently evaluating data centers for the founding cohort. Consideration is based on facility configuration, battery density, and operational access. This is a mutual evaluation.
Canine sensitivity baseline: Peer-reviewed work documents canine detection of target VOCs down to 1.5–40 parts per trillion (Concha et al., Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019).
We're selecting founding data center partners for the field validation program. No commitment — just a conversation about your facility and whether we're a fit.
Tell us about your facility and we'll reach out within one business day.
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