Item 1. Business
Item 1. BUSINESS
Company History and Background.
Focus Universal Inc. (the “Company,”
“we,” “us,” or “our”) is a Nevada corporation. We are based in the city of Ontario, California, and
were incorporated in Nevada in 2012. In December of 2013, we filed an S-1 registration statement that went effective on March 14, 2014.
From March 14, 2014, through August 30, 2021, our securities traded on the OTCQB Market. From August 31, 2021, through January 27, 2022,
our securities traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market. From January 28, 2022, to September 22, 2024, our securities traded on the Nasdaq
Global Market. On September 23, 2024, our securities were transferred for trading to the Nasdaq Capital Market. We hold 28 patents and
patents pending in various phases of the patent process.
We operate through multiple subsidiaries, including
Perfecular Inc. (“Perfecular”), AVX Design and Integration, Inc. (“AVX”)
also doing business as Smart AVX, Focus Universal (Shenzhen) Technology Company LTD (“Focus Shenzhen”), and Lusher, Inc. (“Lusher”).
Perfecular Inc. was founded in September 2009,
is headquartered in Ontario, California, and is engaged in designing certain digital sensor products, and sells a broad selection of horticultural
sensors and filters in North America and Europe.
AVX, incorporated on June 16, 2000, in the state
of California, is an IoT installation and management company specializing in high performance and easy to use audio/video systems, home
theaters, lighting control, automation and integration systems for houses, apartments, commercial complexes, and office spaces. AVX also
markets and sells our internet of things (IoT) products, such as high-end LED, and live wall panel products and cameras, under the Smart
AVX name.
On December 23, 2021, we founded Focus Shenzhen
in China for manufacturing procurement expertise and to support research and development activities. Focus Shenzhen is designed to function
as a branch office accessing high level research and development support, and the ability to source products and build relationships with
Chinese manufacturers.
On April 30, 2024, we founded Lusher Inc. to develop,
market, and commercialize an automation financial reporting software called One Touch Financial.
In August of 2024, we decided to discontinue the
operations of one of our subsidiaries AT Tech Systems LLC (“AT Tech”). AT Tech specialized in commercial and industrial smart
IoT installation projects in areas throughout Southern California.
On November 29, 2024, we held our 2024 annual
shareholders meeting, and the shareholders approved of an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to increase the number
of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), from 75,000,000
to 150,000,000.
On January 28, 2025, the Company filed a Certificate
Change pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes (“NRS”) 78.209 with the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada to effect a 1-for-10
reverse stock split of the Company’s (i) authorized Common Stock shares and (ii) issued and outstanding Common Stock shares. The
reverse stock split became effective on January 31, 2025. All shares of Common Stock, options, warrants and securities convertible or
exercisable into Common Stock have been adjusted to give retroactive effect to this reverse stock split for all periods presented. As
a result of the reverse split, the Company was authorized to issue 15,000,000 shares of Common Stock.
On September 8, 2025, the Company filed its Second
Amendment and Restatement to its Articles of Incorporation to increase the total number of its authorized capital stock to 30,000,000
shares with 25,000,000 shares designated as Common Stock and 5,000,000 shares designated as preferred stock.
On October 20, 2025, the Company filed a Certificate
of Designation of Series B Preferred Stock (the “Series B Designation”) that had the effect of designating 15,000 shares of
its 5,000,000 authorized shares of preferred stock as Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
On October 21, 2025, the Company filed a Certificate
of Designation of Series A Preferred Stock (the “Series A Designation”) that had the effect of designating 1,000,000 shares
of its 5,000,000 authorized shares of preferred stock as Series A Preferred Stock.
On November 17, 2025, the Company increased the
total number of authorized capital stock from 30,000,000 shares to 1,100,000,000 shares and designated 1,000,000,000 shares as Common
Stock and designated 100,000,000 shares as preferred stock by filing a Third Amendment and Restatement to the Articles of Incorporation.
On December 5, 2025, the Company filed an amendment
and restatement to the Series B Designation (the “Amended Series B Designation”) that provided for (i) a fixed floor price,
adjusted in the event if reverse splits and/or subdivisions, (ii) the method of calculating the conversion price in the event of a reverse
splits and/or subdivisions and (iii) grant of redemption rights to the holders of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
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On February 9, 2026, the Company effected a reverse
stock split of its outstanding common stock on a 1-for-10 basis. No adjustment was made to the Company’s authorized shares of capital
stock. As such, the Company’s authorized capital stock consists of 1,000,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 100,000,000 shares of
preferred stock with 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock designated as Series A Preferred Stock and 15,000 shares of preferred stock designated
as Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
Our principal executive offices are located at
1515 W Cameron Avenue, Ste. 210, West Covina, CA 91790. Our telephone number is (626) 272-3883, and our website is www.focusuniversal.com.
Our website and the information contained therein, or connected thereto, are not intended to be incorporated into this Annual Report.
Our current focus is on commercializing our universal
smart technology and financial reporting software. We plan to utilize our universal smart technology for smart meters and automation systems,
which will be incorporated into IoT devices. To generate revenues, we will focus on product development, technological upgrades, technical
service and customer data collection. We believe this technology has applications in several industries and have completed the development
of a system for horticulture applications. Our financial reporting software is an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled software designed
to aid accounting professional with the preparation of reports based on financial statements, such reports on Form 10-Q and Form 10-K.
We intend to commercialize this product under a software as a service (SaaS) model.
Other than our financial reporting software, the
technologies, products and services that we have developed, and are currently developing, we believe will have significant applications
in the IoT industry. The IoT refers to the overarching network created by billions of internet-compatible devices and machines that share
data and information worldwide. As the sophistication of both hardware and software in the consumer electronics industry skyrockets, an
increasing share of the electronic devices produced around the world are manufactured with internet connectivity. Forecasts suggest that
by 2030, around 50 billion of these IoT devices will be in use worldwide, creating a massive web of interconnected devices spanning everything
from smartphones to kitchen appliances. We believe that IoT will soon reach a critical limit; we do not have enough human labor and natural
resources to support its growth. Fifty billion IoT devices will challenge existing resources. To address these challenges, we have segmented
our operations and developed the technologies and products described below.
In addition to our universal smart technology
and financial reporting software, we are current researching and developing the following:
Device on a Chip
We have developed an innovative “device
on a chip” (“DoC”) technology, which combines the required electronic circuits of various integrated circuit components
onto a single, integrated chip (“IC”). Our DoC technology works as a single component but is capable of handling entire IoT
device functions (excluding sensors and architecture-specific components). Our DoC technology includes both the hardware and software,
and decreases the number of interconnections between components. We believe that incorporating our DoC technology into our product offering,
will simplify the manufacturing process, lowering our costs and allowing us to achieve a fast time-to-market. Our planned DoC technology
allows devices to achieve interoperability with one another and to be interchangeable, both features where traditional IoT devices fall
short.
Our research and development suggest that the
existing IC integration in IoT devices is mainly focused on hardware-to-hardware integration, not incorporating software solutions. This
lack of incorporating software under a common operating system, application software, and extra interface into ICs, limits IC integration
to the component level. Software is a critical component in electronics, and the more tightly integrated the software, the better the
power and performance. Software also adds an element of flexibility and allows multiple discrete ICs to be integrated into a single IC.
Figure 1. From USIP to device level
integrated circuits (“IC”).
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5G Ultra-narrowband Technology
Fifth generation (“5G”) telecommunications
networks are expected to revolutionize the digital economy by enabling new applications that depend on ultra-fast communications on an
industrial scale. 5G promises to deliver an improved end-user experience by offering new applications and services through gigabit speeds
and significantly improved performance and reliability. A World Economic Forum report stated that by 2035 5G networks would contribute
$13.2 trillion in economic value globally and generate 22.3 million jobs in the 5G global value chain from direct network investments
and residual services. 5G networks and their related applications are expected to add three million jobs and $1.2 trillion to the economy
in the U.S.
Though 5G offers a significant increase in speed
and bandwidth over previous generation telecommunication networks, its more limited range for high-speed internet will require further
infrastructure investments. A 5G network requires spectrum across low, mid, and high spectrum bands to deliver widespread coverage and
support a wide range of use cases.
High band, mmWave spectrum is used primarily
for urban and dense urban markets. The characteristics of high band, mmWave spectrum is that it is very wide and provides a significant
increase in capacity. Because of the greater spectrum width, speed is increased, and transmission latency is reduced. However, the drawback
is that high-band spectrum does not propagate over a large coverage area. For example, a 28 GHz mmWave spectrum can only travel 500 feet.
Low-band frequencies can travel long distances
and penetrate buildings but can only carry a limited amount of data. High-band frequencies can carry a substantial amount of data, but
due to their shorter wavelength, they travel shorter distances and are more susceptible to buildings and trees blocking the signal.
Unlike 4G LTE, which operates on established frequency
bands below 6GHz, 5G requires frequencies up to 300GHz. Wireless carriers still need to bid for the costly higher spectrum bands, as they
build and roll out their respective 5G networks. Adding the hardware required for 5G networks can significantly increase operating expenses.
According to THALES, total global spending on 5G is set to reach $620 billion by 2025.
A typical 5G base station consumes up to twice
or more power than a 4G base station. Energy costs increase at higher frequencies due to a need for more antennas and a denser layer of
small cells. Edge computing facilities needed to support local processing and new IoT services will also add to overall network power
usage.
Our ultra-narrowband (UNB) wireless communication
5G+ technology aims to achieve both low band 5G coverage and 1 Gbps high-band speed because we employ an ultra-narrow spectrum
channel (<1kHz) to establish an ultra-long-distance link between the 5G base station and the receiver.
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UNB allows for long-range coverage, making it
an optimal low-power wide-area network solution for industrial IoT systems. Additionally, its ultra-high power spectral density creates
endurance against interference and jamming, which enables the friendly coexistence of UNB on shared frequency bands. The narrower the
bandwidth, the fewer occurrences of noise and interference entering the bandwidth. In addition, UNB’s transmission of energy concentrates
on ultra-narrowband width, resulting in a very high concentration of power in a very narrow frequency band.
Figure 4. Comparison between Ultra-Narrowband
and Broadband
We developed an ultra-narrowband technology that
offers a potential alternative and/or complementary solution to the broadband technology used in 5G networks and meets the challenging
5G demands. A comparison of our ultra-narrowband technology with 4G and 5G is illustrated in the table below:
Technology
Bandwidth
No. of subcarriers
Operating Frequency
Speed
Spectral
MHz
GHz
Mbps
Bits/s/Hz
4G
20
1200
6
4-60
6
5G
100
3276
Up to 300
40-1100
10
UNB (finished)
0.001
1
0.004
4
~4000
UNB (in development)
0.001
1
0.064
64-256
>4000
As shown by the above table, our internal testing
shows that our finished ultra-narrowband technology can achieve speeds of 4 Mbps per second at a bandwidth of less than 1000 Hz. The spectral
efficiency of our finished technology has reached 4000 bits/sec/Hz. Development work of our ultra-narrowband technology is underway for
speeds of 64 Mbps at a bandwidth of 64 MHz with spectral efficiency of over 4000 bits/sec/Hz.
Our internal testing suggests that a single 5G+
subcarrier wave has the potential to provide speeds of 64 to 256 Mbps. Moreover, multiple UNB subcarriers may be combined, which effectively
increases bandwidth. Given anticipated data rates of 64 Mbps, we believe only 4 to 16 5G+ subcarrier waves would be needed to achieve
the current 5G speeds, and just 40 to 160 5G+ subcarrier waves would be needed to achieve 6G speeds. By contrast, 5G technology requires
3,276 subcarrier waves to achieve its current speeds. Fewer subcarriers translate into cost savings because they are more compact and
consume less energy. Our goal is to increase the speed of 5G networks while simultaneously reducing the number of subcarriers.
Our internal testing suggests that to achieve
speeds of 1 Gbps, our 5G+ technology would only require bandwidths of 4 to 16 kHz, which is narrow enough to be operated in lower frequency
spectrums. This would mean that 5G+ providers would not need to purchase the higher frequency spectrums required by 5G technology. Accordingly,
a 5G+ provider would realize significant savings from not having to bid for costly higher spectrum band licenses. Operating in relatively
lower frequency spectrum bands, when compared to 5G, also means that 5G+ would have a more extensive coverage area than that of 5G, in
many cases three to ten times larger. It would also mean that we could reduce the number of subcarriers and reduce the overall costs of
the 5G networks infrastructure.
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Ultra-narrowband Power Line Communication (“PLC”) Technology
Our patented PLC is innovative communication technology
that enables sending data over existing power cables in the electric grid. Because PLC uses the existing power lines, it does not require
substantial new investment for a dedicated wiring infrastructure. Existing power lines already form a distribution network that penetrates
every residential, commercial, and industrial property. This makes PLC the most cost-effective, scalable interconnectivity approach for
the backbone communication infrastructure required for IoT. PLC allows IoT devices to be plugged into power outlets to establish a connection
using the existing electrical wiring, permitting data sharing without the substantial investment and inconvenience of running dedicated
network cables.
The power line network was not originally designed
to function as a communication channel. The harsh electrical noise present on power lines and variations in equipment and standards make
communications over the power grid difficult and present several challenges for data transfer. Signals propagating along the power line
are subjected to substantial amounts of noise, attenuation, and distortion. This is why previous attempts at implementing PLC technology
resulted in power companies and internet service providers deciding that the technology is not a viable means of delivering data or broadband
internet access.
We have successfully developed ultra-narrowband
PLC technology that can transfer data through the power grid. According to our internal testing, our ultra-narrowband PLC technology can
send and receive data without the customary interference that occurs in standard office and residential environments, achieving speeds
of 4 Mbps at a bandwidth of less than 1000 Hz. To test noise interference and disturbance, we utilized six industrial blowers simultaneously
when testing, and no significant interference was found. By comparison, a single hair dryer will render our competitors’ legacy
PLC technology completely useless. We have completed the development of our 4Mbps PLC modules and the printed circuit board layout. These
modules will be used for IoT systems involving over 1,000 sensors.
Natural Integrated Programming Language (“NIPL”)
We have developed a patented “user interface
machine auto generation platform” (“UIMAGP”) to replace manual software design. This platform is used to build IoT user
interfaces. The natural integrated programming language we have developed is like the language humans use to communicate with each other,
which makes it is easy for humans to learn, while still being understood by a machine. The UIMAGP simplifies the process of software programming
by saving hundreds of lines of code into a micro code that can be saved to a sensor module. When that sensor module is plugged into a
universal smart instrumentations platform (USIP), the user interface specification codes saved to the sensor module is sent to the platform
and a universal display, such as a smartphone, a computer, or a display unit. The UIMAGP saved on the universal display automatically
generates the user interface within milliseconds. An embedded coding hardware engineer can design sensor module hardware and provide the
user interface specification code achieving the hardware-defining software.
The UIMAGP and user interface specification codes
work collectively to perform the function of traditional customized software, enabling UIMAGP to be shared by the estimated 20 billion
IoT devices worldwide, [7][8] a feat that to our knowledge, current manual software designs have not been able not achieve.
Universal Smart Instrumentation Hardware and Software Platform (USIP)
USIP is an advanced hardware and software integrated
instrumentation platform with a large-scale modular design approach. USIP integrates technologies, including cloud technology, wired and
wireless communication technology, software programming, instrumentation technology, artificial intelligence, PLC, sensor networking,
and IoT technology into a single platform. This results in circuit designs that we believe are vastly cheaper and faster than those constructed
of discrete integrated circuit components designed from scratch.
USIP has primary functionalities and an open architecture
capable of incorporating a variety of individual instruments, functions, sensors, and probes from different industries and vendors into
a single unit. With USIP, Instruments, sensors, or probes ranging from a few to several hundred or even thousands in any combination from
various industries and vendors can share or reuse the same platform. Adding, removing, or changing instruments or sensors is all the platform
requires to switch from one type of device to another without revising the software and redesigning the hardware. We believe our USIP
will revolutionize the field of instrumentation, measurement, control, and automation.
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The development of USIP is closely associated
with the development and proliferation of computers and mobile devices that provide the foundation and technical support to the universal
smart instrument such as an attractive graphical user touch screen interface, data processing and analysis capabilities, video and audio,
cameras, GPS, ubiquitous wireless connectivity, artificial intelligence, cloud-based communications and a diverse number of functions
and software available to users that are not contained in traditional instruments. These features embody the advantages of USIP, which
are lacking in stand-alone instrument systems. When compared with traditional instrument systems, USIP’s biggest advantage is cost
savings. Other distinctive features include universality, interoperability, flexibility, compatibility, upgradeability, expandability,
scalability, security, modularity, fast prototyping, reducing inventory, plug-and-play operation, remote accessibility, simplification,
standardization, and cloud instrumentation.
We subdivide instruments into a reusable foundation
component to the maximum extent possible, architecture-specific components, and sensor modules, which perform traditional instruments’
functions at a fraction of their cost. For most instruments, 90% of the design, parts, and firmware are the same. These parts can be replaced
by USIP.
USIP utilizes a computer or a mobile device as
its display and control to communicate with a group of sensors, instruments, probes, or controllers manufactured by different vendors
in a manner that requires the user to have little or no knowledge of their unique characteristics.
The portable version of USIP, is a universal device
called Ubiquitor, is illustrated below. When a blood pressure sensor is plugged into the Ubiquitor, the user interface specification code
saved on the blood pressure sensor is sent to the Ubiquitor, and a computer or smartphone will then generate the user interface for the
blood pressure device based on the interface specification code saved in the sensor.
Figure 5. A blood pressure sensor is
connected to our universal device, which we call the Ubiquitor, and changes our device into a blood pressure measurement instrument.
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Similarly, if we remove the blood pressure sensor
and connect our Ubiquitor to both a pH sensor and a CO2 sensor, the Ubiquitor changes to a two-sensor device capable of measuring pH and
CO2 concentration. Each sensor has its own user interface automatically generated based on the user interface specification code saved
in each sensor.
Figure 6. A pH sensor and a CO2 sensor
are connected to our universal device, and our device changes into a two-sensor device. A computer or smartphone can also be used for
display.
As illustrated below, when a light sensor is also
plugged into our Ubiquitor using a three-way splitter, the Ubiquitor becomes a three-sensor device.
Figure 7. A pH sensor, a CO2 sensor,
and a light sensor are connected to the Ubiquitor , and the device changes into a three-sensor device. A computer or smartphone can also
be used for display.
As illustrated in Figure 8, the Ubiquitor can
connect any number of sensors in any combination.
Figure 8. Any number of sensors in any
combination can be connected to the Ubiquitor and changed it into a multiple sensor device. A computer or smartphone can also be used
for the display.
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The Ubiquitor is a handheld, fully modular system
with a universal sensor node and gateway system that uses a smartphone as the output display module that displays the readings of various
probe modules. We implemented our Ubiquitor in the configuration pictured in Figure 9. This configuration demonstrates that the Ubiquitor
simultaneously controls 27 light sensors, 21 pH sensors, and 23 temperature humidity sensors (which have 23 temperature sensors and 23
humidity sensors), representing one device controlling a total of 72 devices and 95 sensors. Our Ubiquitor also controls two lights in
this configuration, which it can control by turning the lights on or off (including on a schedule) or by using a light sensor to control
the lights’ output intensity.
Figure 9. Our USIP simultaneously monitors
and controls 72 different devices and 95 sensors.
To illustrate, the entire horticulture industry
has only a few hundred devices from different vendors for various measurement and control purposes. One Ubiquitor and corresponding sensors
or actuators can replace them all at a fraction of the cost. Leveraging the same technical principles discussed above, we can simplify
the smart control and monitoring in this and related industries (including agriculture and aquaculture) with a platform that requires
little design work for interoperability between sensors and control devices.
Figure 10. Traditional horticulture measurement
and control devices.
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Figure 11. Ubiquitor, Universal Smart
Device.
All household measurement and control devices,
such as air conditioner controls, swimming pool controls, garage door controls, sprinkler controls, lighting controls, and motorized curtain
controls, can be replaced by a single Ubiquitor and accessories.
Figure 12. A single Ubiquitor can replace
all these household control devices.
Figure 13. Comparison between (a) a traditional
machine to machine IoT and (b) a shared distributed universal IoT, which depicts a USIP and sensors forming a local network through PLC
technology. The platform communicates with the cloud to form a remote cloud-based system.
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Figure 14. Comparison between (a) a traditional
wireless network and (b) Focus Universal Inc.’s PLC network.
Current Product Offering
In an effort to continually develop our product
lines, we plan to phase out the traditional, lower-margin products and are preparing to launch a new line of products that have been in
development for several years. These newer technology products will be released in phases, and we intend that increasing amounts of technology
will be layered upon these products. Additionally, we plan to continue to increase our efforts in protecting more intellectual property
rights. We have developed products in both the controlled agriculture industry and home automation industries, taking advantage of our
existing relationships in both sectors.
We are building a U.S. sales team to market our
product lines. We have already begun marketing our current Smart AVX-branded large format multimedia touch screens, surveillance camera
system (cameras and network video recorders (NVRs)), indoor and outdoor LED screens, and Focus Universal-branded VOIP phone service systems,
both via our sales staff and the Internet.
Ubiquitor - Universal Smart Device
The initial, simplified version of universal smart
IoT technology is our universal smart device, the Ubiquitor. The Ubiquitor’s efficient and cost-effective approach to the cost of
connected sensors is illustrated above. The Ubiquitor was first showcased at the Consumer Technology Association’s CES 2024 trade
show, which attracted significant interest from potential customers.
Smart Home Installation
Our Ubiquitor device will be used to offer residential
customers an entire smart home product line. We have finished designing smart devices for lighting control, air conditioner control, sprinkler
control, garden light control, garage door control, and heating control and are in the process of developing a swimming pool control device,
smoke detector, and carbon monoxide monitor.
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We believe smart installation based on the USIP,
and our Ubiquitor together will include more functionalities than the current systems offered by our competitors. It is our goal that
our smart systems would integrate, exchange data, interact and connect utilizing our forthcoming PLC technology. As a result, the installation
process would be simplified, and its costs would be reduced.
The Ubiquitor will be central to our smart installation
systems. The Ubiquitor’s connectivity capabilities will allow our systems to be expanded and customized in the future.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, should we be unable
to successfully integrate the Ubiquitor into our smart installations, the Ubiquitor will continue to be a flagship product of our Company
that can be applied to various other industrial and commercial purposes.
In addition to the development of the universal
smart IoT platform, Focus Universal has showcased the production model of Ubiqutors and scientific sensors developed by their team. These
sensors include quantum photosynthetic active radiation sensors, TDS sensors, pH sensors, total dissolved oxygen sensors, pressure sensors,
ORP sensors, temperature sensors, humidity sensors, carbon dioxide sensors, water level sensors, chlorine sensors, and turbidity sensors.
These sensors are designed for use in agriculture, aquaculture, and the beverage industry. They are ready for marketing and have garnered
significant interest at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. These sensors can be sold individually with Ubiquitors or bundled together to form an integrated
IoT solution.
SEC Financial Reporting Software
Our subsidiaries Perfecular Inc. and Lusher Inc.
are developing and designing a software to streamline SEC financial reporting for financial reporting and tax firms, which we named, One
Touch Financial. Currently, we have completed the SEC financial reporting software in a Microsoft Word format. Our team is focused on
streamlining the entire SEC financial reporting process for SEC attorneys, PCAOB accounting firms, and other financial reporting professionals.
Our goal is that with a single click, our software automatically retrieves financial data from external accounting systems and generates
consolidated financial statements and SEC reports in WORD, PDF, HTML, and XBRL formats—all within just a few minutes. Our developers
are trying to completely eliminate human involvement when it comes to manually updating the numbers. This automation is designed to create
an error-free, seamless process. Focus Universal expect to showcase the software to public in 2026.
Strategy and Marketing Plan
The Company plans to market the USIP to the industrial
sector first, including key growth industries such as indoor agriculture. Once the technology is established in that industry, the core
technologies of universality and interoperability through a readily available device, such as a mobile device or smartphone, may be ported
to products specifically intended for the consumer and residential markets.
While industrial markets are large, the consumer
and residential markets are even more significant. This two-phase approach will allow for continuous and increasing revenue growth. Moreover,
during the industrial phase of development, the Company will test and refine its products to ensure that they are ready for the consumer
and residential markets.
We will continue to design, manufacture, market,
and distribute our electronic measurement devices, such as temperature humidity meters, digital meters, quantum PAR meters, pH meters,
TDS meters, and CO2 monitors. The universal smart technology has been applied to our existing traditional devices and demonstrated significant
functional improvement and hardware cost savings. We believe hardware cost reductions of up to 90% have been achieved. However, promoting
universal smart technology and universal smart IoT devices to our customers, including traditional instrument manufacturers, will be
the central focus of our future business.
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Our goals over the next three years include:
·
Raise capital to move into full sales and marketing team for our Ubiquitor device and growing product lines;
·
Partner with manufacturers and promote the adoption of our Ubiquitor device in a USIP;
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Acquire a stable market share of the sensor device market;
·
Continue performing research and development on PLC technology;
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Focus on building our smart home offerings so that we can reduce the cost of smart home implementation to expand smart home installation and implementation beyond luxury homes;
·
File additional patents to expand our intellectual property portfolio related to the many uses of our Ubiquitor device;
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Commercialize our financial reporting software under a SaaS model; and
·
File patents to protect our PLC technology.
To achieve these goals, we intend to focus on the following initiatives:
·
Position the Ubiquitor device as the industry standard in universal sensor reading technology;
·
Establish strategic supply chain channels to facilitate efficient production operations; and
·
Communicate the product and service differentiation through direct networking and effective marketing.
Growth Strategy
Growth through Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”)
represent a significant part of our growth strategy because M&A can fill business gaps or add key business operations without requiring
us to wait years for marketing and sales cycles to materialize. We have used this growth strategy in our acquisition of AVX, and in the
future intend to continue to use M&A to find and secure opportunities that will either: (i) achieve the objective of growth in our
market segments; or (ii) provide an area of expansion that will add to the Company’s products and/or service lines in markets that
we are currently not serving, but could serve if we had the appropriate expertise. The resulting combination of our existing products
and services, new key personnel, and strategic partnerships through M&A will allow us to operate in new markets and provide new offerings
to our existing market.
Acquiring key competitors may allow the addition
of key personnel to our team. These additions may include people with vast industry knowledge, which can act as a catalyst to further
our growth and lead to the development of new products and business lines. We will seek to target synergistic acquisitions in the same
industry, targeting different geographic locations, which will allow us to actively compete on a regional or national scale in the IoT
segment. If we target businesses in the same sector or location, we hope to combine resources to reduce costs, eliminate duplicate facilities
or departments and increase revenue. We believe this strategy will allow for accelerated growth and maximize investor returns.
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One of our key strategies to grow through M&A
is to acquire smaller businesses that focus on IoT installation technology (industrial or residential) and in the USIP or PLC industries.
In addition to providing potential adjacent technologies and other useful resources, these businesses also possess important distribution
channels which would allow for distribution of our main products including the Ubiquitor. The company would also consider targets which
would solely allow for distribution channels for our platforms or adjacent products.
Original Equipment Manufacturer (“OEM”)
Engineering Consulting and Design Services
Universal smart technology is new to most electronic
engineers and manufacturers. One way to promote our universal smart technology is to provide direct OEM engineering design consulting
services to potential industrial customers. Direct, on-site consulting will educate our industrial consumers on the many ways our technology
can be implemented in a variety of industrial applications. We believe that we are well positioned to perform product design and engineering
consulting services for future OEM customers. We believe we can operate as a seamless extension of our customers’ engineering organizations
and add scale, flexibility, and speed to their design processes. Through our engineering consulting services strategy, we intend to become
our customers’ engineering partner at all stages of their system design cycle so that we may effectively assist them in transforming
ideas into production-ready products and accelerate time to market for our universal smart technology products.
Technology Licensing
We may also consider entering into licensing arrangements
with our customers for our technology. We believe that once we educate our industrial consumers, they may want to integrate our universal
smart technology into their own technology through licensing agreements. We believe licensing our intellectual property may provide a
revenue stream with no additional overhead, all while allowing us to retain proprietary ownership and create long-term industrial consumers
who rely on our products. By creating incentives, such as cost incentives, to license our IP rather than design their own technology,
we believe potential customers could save on design costs and create business development opportunities. Licensing may also allow us to
rely on the expertise, capacity, and skill of a licensee to commercialize our IP, which is especially valuable if we lack the infrastructure,
financial resources, and know-how to bring a product to market independently.
Distribution Method
We intend to engage in relationships
predominantly with standard U.S. component manufacturers and similar electronics providers for the manufacturing of unassembled
parts of the Ubiquitor and its sensor nodes, and to then ship such parts to our Ontario, California facility where we assemble the
Ubiquitor devices and sensor nodes. Afterwards, we intend to distribute our Ubiquitor devices to distributors and retailers directly
and ship directly to traditional industrial instrument manufacturers. We have a sales department operating out of our Ontario,
California office. We intend to market the Ubiquitor to industrial end-users through direct business-to-business sales channels and
also directly to consumers via e-commerce internet platforms. For our quantum light meters, we intend to implement a direct sales
method via Amazon.com and other online retailers.
Raw Materials
The electronic components used in the Ubiquitor
are common and can be easily purchased through a variety of suppliers with little advanced notice. We predominantly use large-scale manufacturers
in the United States such as Texas Instruments and Intel for the major components. Other key suppliers we could consider include Analog
Devices, Skyworks Solutions, Infineon, STMicroelectronics, NXP Semiconductors, Maxim Integrated, On Semiconductor, and Microchip Technology.
Production and assembly lines are also available worldwide if we needed to outsource or increase our capacity, though we intend to complete
our assembly in our Ontario, California facility.
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Manufacturing and Assembly
We have an assembly facility in Ontario, California
where we assemble the Ubiquitor from parts sourced predominantly in the United States. Our quantum light meters and handheld sensors are
also manufactured in our Ontario, California facility.
Key Competitive Advantages and Opportunities
and Strengths
Across the world, everyday internet connected
devices are getting incorporated in tandem, including thermostats, water meters, home alarms, kitchen gadgets, medical equipment, factory
machinery and even vehicles. Collectively, this ecosystem represents the next frontier in the digital revolution. Unlike the simple automation
of machinery, IoT is mobile and virtual, and features continuous Internet connectivity. IoT can help companies increase productivity,
cut costs, offer new products and services, and deploy new business models.
Despite this forward technological momentum, a
sector-wide study conducted by Cisco showed that 60 percent of IoT initiatives stalled at the very-early Proof of Concept (PoC) stage
and only 26% of companies have had an IoT initiative that they considered a complete success. Herein lies both the key advantage of the
platforms of the Company and its opportunities and strengths. Our combined platforms are able to eliminate redundant work and production
costs in the early-stage development in the IoT sector, whereby project developers do not need to begin from scratch each time they develop
a new IoT product, eliminating a significant part of their workload.
Competitors
Sensor Node Industry
There are several competitors we have identified
in the sensor node industry, including traditional instruments or devices manufacturers such as Hanna Instruments or Extech Instruments.
Hach developed and launched the SC1000 Multi-parameter
Universal Controller, a probe module for connecting to 32 digital sensors or analyzers. However, their products are not compatible with
smart phones yet; and we believe their price point is still prohibitive to consumers.
Monnit Corporation offers a range of wireless
and remote sensors. Many of Monnit’s products are web-based wireless sensors that usually are not portable because of their power
consumption. Also, the sensors’ real-time updates are slow; and we believe security of the web-based sensor data acquisition may
be a concern. In addition to purchasing the device, consumers usually have to pay a monthly fee for using web-based services.
IoT Installation Industry
There are several companies that compete with
AVX in smart home installations, including Vivint Smart Home, Crestron and Control4. However, we believe we can distinguish ourselves
from our competitors by offering a substantially lower price. An installation by Crestron ranges between $20,000 and $100,000 and by Control4
between $20,000 and $40,000. The cheapest competitor we can identify in this sector is Vivint Smart Home, which costs less than $5,000
to install; however, we understand that the Vivint Smart Home focuses on security systems only and that users have no other smart applications,
which our smart home product line would include.
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Patent, Trademark, License and Franchise Restrictions
and Contractual Obligations and Concessions
On November 4, 2016, we filed a U.S. patent application
number 15/344,041 with the USPTO. On March 5, 2018, we issued a press release announcing that the USPTO had issued an Issue Notification
for U.S. Patent Application No. 9924295 entitled “Universal Smart Device,” which covers a patent application regarding the
Company’s Ubiquitor. The patent was granted on March 20, 2018.
After our internal research and development efforts,
we filed with the USPTO on June 2, 2017, a patent application regarding a process for improving the spectral response curve of a photo
sensor. We believe that the small and cost-effective multicolor sensor and its related software protected by the patent could achieve
a spectral response that approximates an ideal photo response to measure optical measurement. The patent was issued on February 26, 2019.
On November 29, 2019, the Company filed an international
utility patent application through the patent cooperation treaty as application PCT/US2019/63880, titled “System and Method of Power
Line Communication.” In April 2020, the Company was notified that it received a favorable international search report from the International
Searching Authority regarding this patent application, which patents the Company’s PLC technology. The World International Property
Organization report cited only three category “A” documents, indicating that the Company’s application met both the
novelty and non-obviousness patentability requirements. The Company has since obtained two patents based on this patent application—U.S.
Patent Nos. 11546017 and 11984942, issued January 3, 2023 and May 14, 2024, respectively. Consequently, the Company is optimistic that
the patent covering the claims for its PLC technology will be issued in due course and will allow the Company to implement strong protections
on the PLC technology worldwide.
On May 19, 2021, we filed thirteen provisional
patent applications with the USPTO that we had been researching and developing for years, encompassing a broad spectrum of technology
areas including sensor technology, wired and wireless communications, power line communications, computer security, software solutions,
interconnected technological communications, smart home systems and methods for both home and hydroponic areas, dynamic password cipher,
local file security, payment card security, infrared sensor, and a method and apparatus for high data rate transmission.
In addition, the Company’s patent number
11,488,468 was allowed and subsequently issued on November 1, 2022. The patent, titled Sensor for Detecting the Proximity of an IEEE 802.11
Protocol Connectable Device.
On April 3, 2023, the United States Patent and
Trademark Office (“USPTO”) issued an Issue Notification for U.S. Patent No. 11580558 entitled “Dynamic Anti-Counterfeit
System and Method.” The USPTO also issued an Issue Notification for U.S. Patent Application No. 11546017 entitled “System
and Method of Power Line Communication.” Both patents cover patent applications regarding the Company’s PLC business.
In 2024, we retained the law firm of Dority &
Manning, P.A. to serve as outside intellectual property counsel for the Company. With the help of Dority & Manning, we are maintaining
existing patent rights and have improved the sustainability of our patent portfolio by filing omnibus continuation-in-part applications
to maintain intellectual property rights where possible. We filed 3 patents in 2023, and 4 patents in 2024, which would all be classified
as omni-bus patents encompassing more patents consolidating the patent portfolio into a more manageable size in order to reduce budget.
Research and Development Activities
For the year ended December 31, 2025, we spent
a total of $919,965 on research and development activities; and for the year ended December 31, 2024, we spent a total of $1,381,937.
A significant portion of our research and development activities are conducted in China by Focus Shenzhen.
Compliance with Environmental Laws
We are not aware of any environmental laws that
have been enacted, nor are we aware of any such laws being contemplated for the future, that impact issues specific to our business.
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Employees
As of the date of this report we have a total of 37 full-time employees.
We do not have any part-time employees. The Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Secretary is Dr. Desheng Wang, and our Chief Financial
Officer is Irving Kau. We have 29 full-time electrical and computer engineers (and engineering management staff) working on the research
and development of our products. We have six full-time marketing employees and three full-time employees are working on administrative
tasks. We also have a full-time accounting manager/controller.
Reports to Securities Holders
We provide an annual report that includes audited
financial information to our shareholders. We make our financial information equally available to any interested parties or investors
through compliance with the disclosure rules for a small business issuer under the Exchange Act. We are subject to disclosure filing requirements
including filing Form 10-K annually and Form 10-Q quarterly. In addition, we will file Form 8-K and other proxy and information statements
from time to time as required. We do not intend to voluntarily file the above reports in the event that our obligation to file such reports
is suspended under the Exchange Act. The public may read and copy any materials that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission
at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549.
The public may obtain information on the operation
of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains an Internet site (http://www.sec.gov) that contains
reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC.
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