Innovative environmental multisensing for waterbody quality monitoring and remediation assessment

环境水污染是一个日益严重的全球性问题，导致越来越多的法规和对改善水质监测解决方案的需求增加，以满足欧洲绿色协议的目标。实时现场设备提供了更快速，更有效的监测承诺，并且许多此类解决方案主要来自非欧盟供应商。然而，现有的原位解决方案检测到的参数非常有限，并且受到高成本、低可靠性和高能耗的限制。为了更好地满足终端用户的需求，提高环境水质监测水平，需要新的传感技术。为此，IBAIA将基于互补光子学和电化学（EC）技术开发四种创新的最佳功能传感器模块。中红外将用于检测有机化学品，Vis-NIR用于检测微塑料和盐度，Optode技术用于检测物理化学参数，EC技术用于检测营养盐和重金属。利用联盟在尖端材料科学、微流体、数据处理和集成/封装技术方面的专业知识，这四个传感器将集成并封装到一个先进的多传感系统中，并由最终用户在真实的现场条件下进行验证。IBAIA系统将比现有的解决方案更准确地监测更广泛的参数，同时更具成本效益，更可靠，更环保的制造，更易于使用。这些戏剧性的改进将体现在极具竞争力的产品上，作为许多最终用户的一刀切的解决方案，具有高度以欧盟为中心的供应链，将取代大量劣质的非欧盟替代解决方案。

Environmental water pollution is a growing global issue, leading to increasing regulations and concurrent increased demand for improved water quality monitoring solutions to meet the European Green Deal objectives. Real time in situ devices offers the promise of more rapid and efficient monitoring, and numerous such solutions are available from a wide number of primarily non-EU suppliers. However, existing in situ solutions detect very limited parameters, and are restrained by high costs, low reliability, and high energy usage. To better meet end user needs and improve environmental water quality monitoring, novel sensing technology is required. To this end, IBAIA will develop four innovative optimally functionalised sensor modules based on complementary photonics and electrochemical (EC) technologies. Mid-IR will be used to detect organic chemicals, Vis-NIR for microplastics and salinity, Optode technology for physicochemical parameters, and EC technology for nutrient salts and heavy metals. Leveraging consortium expertise in cutting edge material science, microfluidics, data processing and integration/packaging technology, these four sensors will be integrated and packaged into a single advanced multisensing system and validated by end users in real in situ conditions. The IBAIA system will more accurately monitor a wider range of parameters than existing solutions, whilst simultaneously being more cost effective, more reliable, more environmentally friendly to manufacture, and more user friendly to use. These dramatic improvements will manifest in an extremely competitive product that acts as a one-size-fits-all solution for many end users, with a highly EU-centric supply chain, that will supplant a wide number of inferior non-EU alternative solutions.