Description
The project seeks to develop a biosensor system to reduce the time needed to detect pollutant substances in liquid environment used in aquacultural production. The project will develop a multisensor device to be housed in a buoy, which will incorporate housing for three biosensors, each one of them specifically designed for a given substance. It also will include common electronics that gather information from biosensors and mobile communications systems to send it to the Cloud, using its GPS positioning data. The presence and concentration of pollutants will be measured continuously and automatically, and the system will generate alarms if the concentration exceeds certain predetermined values. This will strengthen the knowledge of biosensors' practical application in aspects related to environmental pollution and food production. The resulting products will be oriented towards fish and mussels in both opened and confined waters. these are markets that are internationally well-established and growing, moving hundreds of thousands of million Euros a year.
Summary of project results
The aquaculture market is challenged by a lack of trustworthy low-cost monitoring systems targeting toxics, pollutants and germicidals. The project therefore sought to offer an innovative product that could respond to the need for a pollutant detection system. The main project objective - to design and develop a continuous and automatic monitoring system that incorporates biosensors to measure pollutant substances in liquids while sending data to a Cloud Central System - has been amply achieved. The system consists of the following: Amperometric enxyme biosensors, New biosensors oriented to target pollutants, Miniaturized electrochemical transducers. The first operational execution tests of the system were carried out in 2015. These tests included not only the integration of the biosensor with the concentrator, but also the transmission of information to the CLOUD system for reprocessing of the information and generation of the final products, concluding that the system is viable. Following the initial tests and development of a system prototype, the project set up a pilot system in facilities at the University of Burgos for final tests. The developed system be very useful in fish farms for fast and effective detection of polluting substances. The company is initiating commercial promotion of the project.
Summary of bilateral results