Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SENEX (Table Top Device based on Nanostructured Sensors for the continuous ENvironmental monitoring of EXplosive substances in sensitive areas)
Période du rapport: 2015-07-01 au 2015-12-31
SENEX device has the potential to satisfy all the requirements for the trace detection of explosives because it can overcome all the technical and commercial barriers connected to use of conventional sensors based techniques, i.e. Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Gas Chromatography, Computer Tomography, Colorimetry and Chemi-Luminescence. Most of the existing devices are bulky, expensive and require long lasting procedures and complex training activities in the start-up phase.
The first market application is civil airport sector but soon the market will be extended to several sectors with different regulations, i.e. cruise ship terminal, public critical infrastructures (government buildings, embassies, etc.), Private Critical Infrastructures (public area, shopping centers, Railways/Subway stations, borders).
Besides, it was agreed to create a consortium with 2 SMEs (a company specialized in industrial design, product engineering and industrialization and a security service provider for airport) in order to industrialize the innovative device and to parallelize the sensing detection to a broad spectrum of detectable molecules, ranging from several kinds of explosives to even drugs. The authorization and certification strategy was defined in order to arrive at the commercialization of SENEX in the airport sector as soon as Phase 2 of the SME Instrument will end.
The IPR study and performed analysis confirmed on the one hand the freedom to operate, and on the other the possibility to protect the products that will be marketed at end of Phase 2.