Description du projet
Un détecteur de rayons X pour des aliments sains
Les inspections de sécurité des aliments ne peuvent pas toujours détecter une contamination à temps. La détection est un processus qui nécessite souvent plusieurs analyses de laboratoire différentes. Le projet XSpectra, financé par l’UE, développe une technologie à rayons X permettant d’examiner en temps réel les caractéristiques physico-chimiques des matériaux. Elle permettra aux inspecteurs de détecter immédiatement des corps étrangers qui ne sont pas identifiables avec la technologie actuelle. Basée sur l’intelligence artificielle, cette technologie améliore la sécurité et réduit les coûts et les délais, tout en aidant à prévenir le gaspillage dans l’industrie alimentaire. Le projet testera la technologie du même nom sur une chaîne de production afin d’achever un produit industriel en vue de sa commercialisation.
Objectif
Xnext is a small Italian high-tech company that has the ambition of revolutionizing the quality inspection in the food sector and the ultimate goal of providing a decisive contribution for the solution of food contamination problems. We aim at succeeding thanks to XSpectra®, the most advanced real time inspection detector. XSpectra® is a disruptive technology as it overcomes all the weaknesses of conventional technologies, thus determining a relevant technological leap compared to all the existing solutions. Based on X-ray multi-spectrum analysis, XSpectra® is capable, like no other technology, to analyze real time the physical-chemical features of the materials and identify foreign bodies currently not detectable. The result of over 8 years of R&D, it’s a very complex system, combining 3 high innovations, all industrialized in-house: Photonics, Nuclear Electronics and Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence Algorithms. XSpectra® is beneficial for the food producers as it improves significantly the production efficiency (minimizing the product batch discard as well as the costs for product recalls); for the consumer as it guarantees the highest safety standards for the quality of foodstuff; for the environment as it helps to reduce significantly the amount of wasted food from the production line. XSpectra® has successfully completed the industrial prototype testing and is now installed for a field test on a production line. At the end of the project we will release the final industrial product and begin the commercialization worldwide. Thanks to high versatility of the system and the chemical-physical characterization capability, XSpectra® can be applied in several other fields: Pharma, Non-Destructive-Tests, material recycling, security controls, just to mention a few. Xnext intends to exploit the cash generation coming from the application in the food sector to support the application of XSpectra® in other sectors that also need to improve the quality standar
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technology
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economics
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningdeep learning
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinateur
20127 MILANO
Italie
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.