It is known that current quality of water resources of the planet is not as high as desired and major sources of water pollution are from human settlements and industrial/agricultural activities. Thus, GREENAQUA will be, at first, oriented to agro-food sector as key market segment, in order to extend afterwards its application to other sectors. The need to take care of this resource has become a global concern and a full monitoring of water quality along the whole hydrological cycle is required. Legislation is being adapted to this new situation and a higher demand of water analysis has appeared. Despite the market needs to have real-time water monitoring devices for biological and physical analysis, there are only few commercial solutions which can analyse both parameters. In general terms, currently, such parameters are determined by archaic systems and most of them require traditional techniques for laboratory cultivation and analysis. Likewise, several R&D sensors have been developed but their results are not very successful: the majority have not been validated in real scenarios and/or have limitations related to robustness, sensitivity, accuracy and reliability. In this context, GREENAQUA proposes an universal portable sensor for water analysis which will perform sampling analysis in situ applying a Standard Method (MPN), according to national legislations as well as a high competitiveness, low maintenance costs and low environmental impact.
The main objectives of the project are on the one hand, the final development of three GREENAQUA product versions bound to the necessity of achieving a proper marketing & commercial positioning of the product and assurance its accomplishment under applicable standards and IPR protection. On the other hand, economical and growth impact is a goal that is expected to achieve by the company thanks to GREENAQUA commercialization which will notably enlarge the company size in terms of turnover and staff.
