Flexible Logic for Autonomous Gas sensing (FLAGS)

自主气体传感 (FLAGS) 的灵活逻辑

• 批准号: 101502
• 金额: $ 28.08万
• 依托单位: FLEXENABLE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=101502
• 关键词: Flexible; Logic; Autonomous; Gas; sensing

Tightening industrial safety standards across the globe combined with large scale economic and industrial growth in the developing world and increasing risks from air pollution in higher density cities has greatly increased the demand for low cost monitoring of the air we breathe for both safety and good health. Current gas detectors fulfill the legal requirements, but at a cost that limits widespread use, especially in the third world, there is therefore a significant gap in the market. The cost barrier cannot be broken with current PCB and silicon chip solutions, especially when combined with the multi-part and complex assembly of the sensors themselves. A radical rethink is therefore required. Hybrid plastic electronics and dedicated silicon chips along with integrated gas sensors represent a solution that is now possible and will be developed by combining the knowledge of a polymer electronics company, a gas detector company and dedicated silicon chip suppliers with the support of a leading academic group. This new system will offer a radical new change in design whose cost advantages will allow a wider acceptance of the product initially in the industrial/mining safety market. Further development building on the success of this low cost gas detector would then lead to a family of personal safety monitors, air quality cards and homeland security/ first responder protection alarms. The success of this product and adoption of the products produced will lead to a substantial improvement in the safety and work conditions of many industrial workers across the globe and in the long term could also have an impact on the general population through general environmental monitoring.

地球仪的工业安全标准日益严格，发展中国家的经济和工业大规模增长，以及人口密度较高的城市空气污染的风险不断增加，这大大增加了对我们呼吸的空气进行低成本监测以确保安全和健康的需求。当前的气体检测器满足法律的要求，但其成本限制了广泛使用，特别是在第三世界，因此在市场上存在显著的缺口。目前的PCB和硅芯片解决方案无法打破成本壁垒，特别是当与传感器本身的多部件和复杂组装相结合时。因此，需要进行彻底的反思。混合塑料电子器件和专用硅芯片沿着与集成气体传感器一起代表了一种解决方案，该解决方案现在是可能的，并将通过结合聚合物电子公司，气体检测器公司和专用硅芯片供应商的知识，并在领先学术团体的支持下开发。这一新系统将在设计上带来全新的变化，其成本优势将使该产品最初在工业/采矿安全市场上得到更广泛的接受。在这种低成本气体探测器成功的基础上进一步发展，将导致一系列个人安全监测器，空气质量卡和国土安全/第一响应者保护警报。该产品的成功和所生产产品的采用将大大改善地球仪上许多工业工人的安全和工作条件，从长远来看，还可能通过一般环境监测对一般人群产生影响。