Descrizione del progetto
Sensori wireless per piante sane
I dispositivi wireless indossabili possono tracciare ogni nostro movimento e monitorare la nostra salute. Questa tecnologia può essere utilizzata anche sulle piante, con vantaggi interessanti per le politiche urbane, l’industria agroalimentare e la silvicoltura. Il progetto WATCHPLANT, finanziato dall’UE, svilupperà un sensore wireless, indossabile e autoalimentato per il monitoraggio in situ degli ambienti urbani. In particolare, questo sistema fa sì che le piante siano dotate di intelligenza artificiale al fine di creare una rete intelligente di sensori che misurano i parametri ambientali e lo stato fisiologico di risposta delle piante in una fase molto precoce, utilizzando un fluido generalmente poco considerato, la linfa floematica. Il progetto studierà in che modo si possa estrarre un volume sufficiente di linfa da una pianta sana e come si realizza un dispositivo bioelettronico durevole in grado di utilizzare la linfa per scopi di rilevamento e raccolta di energia.
Obiettivo
WatchPlant will develop a new biohybrid system technology, a wireless wearable self-powered sensor for in-situ monitoring of urban environments. This system equips urban biological organisms -plants- with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create a smart sensor for measuring both, environmental parameters and the responding physiological state of plants, in a very early stage by the use of a barely explored fluid, phloem sap, in combination with chemical, and physical sensors. It will be integrated into complex network that allows performing distributed information processing, decision making, modeling and data fitting, paving the way for the self-awareness or self-adaptation. Additionally, it will constitute a clean energy self-powered device due to the novel use of sap, not only for transforming plants into living sensors, but also for clean energy generation.
A consortium of EU research, technology centers and ambitious high-tech SMEs will stretch and combine the limits of plant physiology and bioelectronics with microtechnology, multiphysics modelling, sensor engineering, AI and environmental modelling, to transform plant into living autonomous and self-powered sensors. The project has the ambition to solve how to extract sufficient sap volume in a healthy plant, how to make long-lasting bioelectronics, and how create a smart self-powered wearable phytosensor in a single device. It also has the challenge of modelling urban environments using novel combinations of exiting parameters and explores the future role of sap in this sense. Thus, it is a promising tool to carry out weather/pollution/pandemics development forecasting systems up to social networks for proving an ecological/environmental feedback to citizens. Thus it will be possible to perform specific actions and apply efficient use of resources and correct policies, which can have a great impact not only in urban monitoring but a huge range of plant-related sectors such as agro-food industry or forestry.
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- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorssmart sensors
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputational sciencemultiphysics
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesmicrotechnology
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing
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H2020-FETPROACT-2020-2
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
46022 Paterna
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