Dissemination & Future Plans

Industrial Vision

## Gas Line Inspection Use Case One of the primary industrial use cases I'm targeting for this gauge is **gas line inspections**. High-pressure gas lines are subject to strict regulatory safety rules when it comes to surface anomalies like dents, bends, and material deformations. Standard **ANSI inspection procedures** require highly precise measurements of a pipe's outer contour to determine if a dent compromises the wall integrity. Instead of field inspectors manually trying to gauge pipe roundness with physical profiles and calipers—which takes time and introduces human error—my digital contour gauge can instantly scan the pipe deformation, log the data, and plot the exact deviation geometry on a real-time dashboard. This makes ANSI compliance checks faster, digital, and completely traceable.

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## Moving from PoC to MVP & Raising Capital What I have built during Fab Academy is a functional **Proof of Concept (PoC)**. My immediate next step is to refine this into a **Minimum Viable Product (MVP)**. To do this, I plan to commercialize and ruggedize my custom PCB design. I'll utilize professional prototyping services like **JLCPCB** to manufacture a clean, compact, and production-ready electronics package. Once I have this solid, field-testable MVP in hand, I intend to approach Venture Capital funds (VCs) to pitch the product, show real scanning data, and secure the seed funding needed to scale manufacturing.

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## Intellectual Property & Patenting Before presenting the technology to external investors or commercial clients, securing the intellectual property is a priority. I plan to file for a patent on the hardware coordination architecture and the multi-channel multiplexing sensor approach. To ensure this is handled professionally and defensively within the region, I aim to manage the IP filing and patent registration through **Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Legal (TAG-Legal)**.

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## Licensing Strategy ### Chosen License: The MIT License For the initial rollout of this project, particularly the software implementation and firmwares, I have chosen to adopt the **MIT License**. This choice directly supports my plan to launch a Kickstarter campaign and build an open developer community. ```text MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 MOHAMMED ABDULRAHMAN IZZAT AZIZI Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ``` ### Understanding the MIT License The MIT License is a **permissive open-source license**. This means: * **High Flexibility:** Anyone can download, modify, distribute, and even sell the software or use it in their own custom systems without needing to pay royalties. * **Community Adoption:** By lowering the barrier to entry, it encourages hackers, reverse-engineers, and makers to build custom plugins or add-ons for the Digital Contour Gauge ecosystem. * **Liability Protection:** Crucially, it includes an "As-Is" clause, protecting me from legal liability if someone uses the code in an unexpected context. ### Alternative Licensing Models Considered While the MIT license is fantastic for generating goodwill and developer adoption on platforms like Kickstarter, I evaluated alternative frameworks to balance my commercial ambitions: * **Dual-Licensing Model (AGPL + Commercial):** I could release the core source code under a copyleft license like the GNU AGPLv3. This forces any company modifying my code for a cloud dashboard or a proprietary network to release their changes back to the open community. If a gas utility provider wants to keep their code completely private and proprietary, they would be required to buy a paid **Commercial License** from me. This is a highly viable secondary step as the project matures. * **Hardware Specific Licenses (CERN-OHL or CC BY-NC-SA):** While software uses MIT, my structural CAD files and physical PCB layouts can utilize a license like **CC BY-NC-SA** (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). This allows individual makers to fabricate their own replacement housings, but legally bars industrial competitors from manufacturing and selling my exact hardware design commercially without direct authorization.

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## Local Jordanian Acquisition & Lab Collaboration On the local business front, I am looking closely at the Jordanian startup and industrial incubation ecosystem. I am considering pitching the project to an acquisition and technology development company like **iSAL** here in Jordan, which could help scale the infrastructure or absorb the technology into their portfolio. Simultaneously, I want to keep giving back to the community that helped me build it. I plan to continue my close collaboration with the **Crown Prince Foundation (CPF) Makerspace**. My goal is to refine the design so that it can be deployed permanently as an open, accessible digital fabrication tool right inside the lab for other makers to use and build upon.

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## Kickstarter Launch for Makers & Designers Industrial pipelines aren't the only market. A precise, real-time digital contour gauge is a tool that thousands of product designers, reverse-engineers, and makers worldwide would love to have on their desks. I plan to launch a **Kickstarter campaign** targeting this global community. The campaign will offer the device either as an assembled tool or a high-quality developer kit (including my custom PCB and open-source casing files). This will give me the dual benefit of validating market demand directly with end-users while generating non-dilutive funding to finance my initial component manufacturing runs.