Proposal for Lab2Market I2I Market Assessment Integrated micromachined sensors for pest detection

温室生态系统中有各种各样的害虫，对所产生的产品的销路构成重大风险，并造成重大的经济损失。目前用于识别这些害虫的方法不能在损害变得可见和干预变得不切实际之前自主和准确地检测它们。解决这一问题势在必行，因为温室农业是加拿大经济的重要组成部分。便携式电子鼻和微机械传感器的创新正在通过将诊断工具和监测设备的能力扩展到人类感官和感知之外来彻底改变健康和农业领域。采用我们提出的解决方案和开发的新型电子鼻技术将促进急需的小型化，高效，高性能和高性价比的智能传感器系统的技术转让，该系统被开发为具有竞争力的生产系统，用于在应用层面自主早期检测目标害虫。将进行一项市场研究，以评估将一种新的化学技术商业化的可行性，这种技术将能够简单、快速地检测温室部门的害虫。该解决方案建立在专利技术基础上，这些专利技术已被结合到一个原型中，该原型已经安装在商业温室中，用于远程监控环境。正在探索进一步的研发研究以改进这种传感器。还需要扩大生产实验，以支持进入市场。我们预计，评估将确认这项技术具有商业利益，并将确定影响采用的因素，关键利益相关者和商业化合作伙伴，以及需要新的方法来改善加拿大和世界各地数百万人的粮食种植。

Greenhouse ecosystems contain a variety of pests that pose a significant risk to the marketability of the resulting product and cause significant economic loss. Current methods for identifying these pests fall short in autonomously and accurately detecting them before damage becomes visible and intervention becomes impractical. Addressing this concern is imperative as greenhouse agriculture is a significant element of the Canadian economy. Innovations in portable electronic nose and micromachined sensors are revolutionizing the field of health and agriculture by extending the capabilities of diagnosing tools and monitoring devices beyond human senses and perceptions. The adoption of our proposed solution and developed novel electronic nose technology will facilitate the technology transfer of urgently needed miniaturized, high-efficiency, high performance, and cost-effective smart sensor system, developed as a competitive production system for autonomous early detection of target pests at the application level. A market study will be conducted to assess the viability of commercializing a new chemical technology that will allow for the simple and fast detection of pests in the greenhouse sector. This solution is built upon patented technologies that have been combined into a prototype that is already installed in a commercial greenhouse to remotely monitor the environment. Further R&D studies are being explored to improve this sensor. Scale-up production experiments are also needed to support market entry. We expect that the assessment will confirm that there is a commercial interest in this technology and will identify factors affecting adoption, key stakeholders and commercialization partners, and the need for new approaches to improve growing of food that feeds millions of people in Canada and around the world.