Our story
DiFluidとは
DiFluidは、南方科技大学（Southern University of Science and Technology）の博士課程を中退した起業家、Linus Pengによって創業されました。そのアイデアはシンプルで、しかし大胆なものでした。ラボ品質の精度を、使ってみたいと思うすべての人の手に届けること。個人や小さなロースター、独立系カフェが大手と同じ品質のデータを測り、共有できるようになれば、業界全体の学びが速くなります。
Digitize Fluid
In 2021, R1 came in more than one color. Linus made a version for each liquid he wanted to read: fruit juice, honey, milk, coffee, even wastewater. DiFluid wasn't a coffee company yet. The name came from a much wider idea, Digitize Fluid: turn the changes you can't see inside a liquid into numbers you can read and compare.
Linus was working on a PhD at Southern University of Science and Technology at the time. With a background in electronics, optics and physics, he noticed something that didn't add up. Refractometers had been around for decades, yet the technology inside them, and the experience of using one, had barely moved. Buyers were stuck choosing between a high price, limited precision and awkward handling. He knew it could be done better, and built R1.
Where measuring matters most
A better device settled how to measure. It left open where measuring mattered most, so Linus went looking across liquids. Fruit was one of R1's first big uses. With a reading of 5% or 14% soluble solids, you know right away: not sweet, or sweet. Useful, and simple.
Coffee was different. Its TDS moves within a narrow range, yet a small shift changes the cup. Concentration, extraction, grind size, water temperature and brew method all pull on each other, so one reading starts more questions instead of settling them. Why do the same beans taste so different? Which step caused it? Can a great brew be understood, compared and made again?
Of everyone using R1, coffee people asked the most questions, and the hardest ones. Their curiosity kept pulling Linus back to coffee, to study how devices, data and taste connect.
Depth over breadth
Linus didn't drink coffee then. What drew him in was how hard its problems were. Over time he saw that measuring more kinds of liquid mattered less than understanding one liquid deeply.
In 2022, DiFluid released R2 Extract, built entirely for coffee. It was more than the next generation of R1. It was a decision: stop making a tool for every liquid, and build a complete way to measure concentration, extraction and brewing. Microbalance followed the same year, taking DiFluid from the result in the cup to the brew that produces it. By the time Omni arrived in 2023, there was no doubt where DiFluid was headed.
For several years, Linus ran his PhD and the company side by side. He left university only once the products, the users and the direction had all proven themselves.
What coffee gave back
Coffee changed Linus too. The founder who didn't drink it became a devoted coffee lover. Through DiFluid he met coffee professionals and friends around the world, and in cafés from city to city he tasted countless ideas of what coffee can be.
DiFluid's direction was never fully written at the start. It was there in the many colors of the first R1, in the questions users kept asking, and in the moment Linus chose depth over breadth.
エコシステム
コーヒーのデータは、バリューチェーンのあちこちで分断されています。生産者、輸入業者、輸出業者、ロースター、カフェオーナー、バリスタ、そして消費者が、それぞれ異なるプラットフォーム、ツール、手法を使っているため、標準化は非常に難しくなっています。
DiFluidは、相互につながるハードウェアの垂直チェーンと、堅牢なオペレーティングシステムで、この課題の解決を目指しています。
Measure for clues. Taste to decide.
A cup of coffee is shaped by origin, roasting, grinding, water, equipment, environment and brew method. Through years of tasting and practice, coffee professionals learn how each one shows in the cup. Yet much of what matters can't be seen, and hard-won experience is difficult to record, compare and pass on.
A number means something only next to the conditions, the process and the taste behind it. Each DiFluid device makes one part of coffee visible: concentration, extraction, particle size, roast color, moisture, temperature. CoffeeOS connects them, so every measurement, tasting and brew becomes something you can compare, share and build on.
We don't decide what good coffee is for you, and we don't replace tasting with data. Whether you're a barista, a roaster or simply curious, DiFluid helps you see what changed, ask sharper questions and trust your own palate.
ハードウェア
AirWave
Omix
Omix Plus
Omni
CoffMeter W1
CoffMeter A1
CoffMeter M1
Microbalance
Microbalance Ti
Moment
R2 Extract
R1 Extract
RS Extract
Particle Analysis Coaster
Omni-Volto
OmniFluxDiFluidは、コーヒーのあらゆる工程をカバーするハードウェアを開発してきました。生産者やロースター向けの水分、水分活性、密度、スクリーンサイズの測定から、ロースター向けのリアルタイム・静的な焙煎度測定と排煙処理、そしてバリスタ向けの粒度分析と抽出濃度のツールまで。そしてこれは始まりにすぎません。数多くの新製品が開発中で、DiFluidがつくるすべての製品は、ひとつの共通プラットフォーム、CoffeeOSで動きます。
CoffeeOSとは？
CoffeeOSは、農園からカップまで、コーヒーのあらゆる段階をつなぐ専用プラットフォームです。拡大を続けるDiFluidのハードウェアとシームレスに連携するよう設計され、すべてのツール、測定値、気づきをひとつのアプリにまとめます。単なるコンパニオンアプリではなく、コーヒーのためのオペレーティングシステムです。
R1 gave liquids a language of numbers. Coffee gave those numbers meaning.
Coffee, understood.