Remote Automated Water Testing System Development

水对我们的生活至关重要，是我们最宝贵的资源，但我们缺乏快速、可靠和现场监测水资产质量的能力。通过以实验室为基础的分析技术进行的传统水质分析方法复杂、耗时和昂贵。通过将生物和工程相结合，FREDense Technologies Corporation开发了一种屡获殊荣的生物传感器平台，该平台使用活细胞快速检测和报告水性化学物质和污染物，而不需要将样品运往实验室进行昂贵的分析。该平台已被证明是一种快速、用户友好的水监测技术，可以直接在现场分析复杂样品，而无需冗长的准备步骤。然而，该公司面临着一个主要障碍--目前的人工注水阻碍了该平台在偏远地区的应用。南艾伯塔省理工学院(SAIT)和FREDense建议推进公司自动化水质监测生物传感器的初步开发和设计，该传感器旨在与他们的现场就绪电化学检测器(FRED®)配合使用。SAIT和FREDense之间完成的Engage赠款为自动取水器制定了基线设计和初步计划。这个为期三年的项目将建立一个全功能的水质监测自动生物传感器原型，能够自动采集水样，评估样品的污染物，并以无线方式传输数据。样机将在实验室和现场进行测试。防止水中砷和其他遏制物的不良影响的机会正在向商业解决方案靠拢，这将使石油和天然气、采矿、农业和其他行业以及社区和市政当局受益。由该项目产生的价格实惠、准确的便携式水质自动传感器装置具有在世界各地水质令人担忧的地方应用的潜力。

Water is essential to our lives and is our most precious resource, yet our ability to monitor the quality of water assets quickly, reliably, and on site is lacking. Traditional water quality analysis methods conducted through analytical laboratory-based technologies are complex, time consuming and costly. By combining biology and engineering, FREDsense Technologies Corporation developed an award winning biosensor platform, which uses living cells to quickly detect and report water-borne chemicals and contaminants, without the need to ship samples for costly analysis at a laboratory. The platform has been proven to be a rapid, user-friendly water monitoring technique that enables analysis of complex samples directly in the field without lengthy preparation steps. However, the company is facing one major obstacle - the current manual water injection hinders application of the platform in remote areas. The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) and FREDsense propose to advance the company's initial development and design of an automated water quality monitoring biosensor designed to work with their Field-Ready Electrochemical Detector (FRED®). The Engage grant completed between SAIT and FREDsense developed a baseline design and preliminary plan for the automated water sampler. This three year project will build a fully functional prototype automated biosensor for water quality monitoring capable of automatic water sample collection, evaluating the sample for contaminants and wirelessly transferring data. The prototype will be tested in the laboratory and the field. The opportunity to protect against the ill effects of arsenic and other containments in water is moving closer to a commercial solution that will be benefit the oil and gas, mining, agriculture and other industries, as well as communities and municipalities. Affordable, accurate portable automated water quality sensor device resulting from this project has the potential to be applied around the world where water quality is a concern.