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Focus Universal’s current revenue comes from IoT product sales. Its subsidiary Perfecular sells horticultural sensors and filters to customers in North America and Europe, helping them measure growing conditions. Another subsidiary, AVX, also markets IoT products and provides installation and management services for connected systems.
The company’s development focus is its Universal Smart Instrumentation Platform, or USIP, which is designed to let sensors and instruments from different manufacturers share hardware and software rather than require separate designs. It plans to sell this technology to customers including traditional instrument manufacturers. Through Lusher, it is also developing One Touch Financial, AI-enabled financial-reporting software that it intends to sell as a subscription service; this is a planned business, not an established revenue source.
The sensor business has historically relied heavily on one customer and is seeking new customers. Adoption of USIP depends on customers accepting smartphone sensor readouts and manufacturers using compatible components. Focus Universal also relies on equity and debt financing to support operations while it works toward profitability.
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Focus Universal’s results depend more on commercializing its IoT technology and planned financial-reporting software from a very small revenue base than on how these much larger instrument makers and component suppliers perform.
Fortive competes with Focus Universal’s digital meters and electronic measurement devices by selling professional measurement instruments to users such as electricians and maintenance professionals. Its measurement and condition-monitoring business is the part to watch for competition facing Focus Universal’s instruments.
Focus Universal uses major electronic components from Texas Instruments, which makes chips for electronics designers and manufacturers, in its Ubiquitor and sensor-node devices. Component availability is the relevant issue to watch, though Focus Universal says these parts are common and available from several suppliers with little advance notice.
Focus Universal identifies Intel, which sells processors and other chips to electronics customers, as a predominant source of major components for its Ubiquitor and sensor-node devices. For this tie, watch component supply rather than Intel’s PC or data-center results: Focus Universal says the parts are common and available from multiple suppliers.
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Texas Instruments’ report will shed light on chip availability for Focus Universal’s Ubiquitor and sensor-node devices.
Watch Texas Instruments’ comments on chip supply, not its overall results as a measure of demand for Focus Universal. Steady availability would lower the risk that key parts delay assembly of Ubiquitor and sensor nodes. If supply tightens, Focus Universal says these are common parts with multiple suppliers; whether it can switch promptly will determine if production is affected.
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Focus Universal's report will show whether sales of sensors, Ubiquitor and other products are narrowing the gap with the costs of running the business.
Read IoT product revenue alongside operating expenses and operating cash flow. Rising product revenue, falling expenses and less cash used in operations would show sales are covering more of the day-to-day costs. Flat or falling revenue while expenses remain far higher and operating cash keeps flowing out would show the business still relies on outside financing and has not built a revenue base that can support its operations.
