Description du projet
Une façon intelligente de purifier l’eau
Le traitement des eaux usées urbaines est fondamental pour protéger la santé publique et l’environnement. Pour les milliers de petites et moyennes stations d’épuration urbaines de l’UE, l’un des plus grands défis concerne la surveillance en temps réel et en ligne de l’élimination biologique des nutriments (BNR pour biological nutrient removal) par voie aérobie, une étape indispensable pour éliminer les polluants organiques des eaux usées. Dans ce contexte, le projet WaMoS, financé par l’UE, développera un système de surveillance, de diagnostic et de conseil en ligne et en temps réel pour surveiller l’état du processus BNR. Conçu sous la forme d’une plateforme en tant que service (PaaS), ce système réduira considérablement les événements indésirables qui affectent le traitement biologique en cours d’exploitation.
Objectif
The biggest pain point of WaMoS customers, i.e. small and medium size Urban Waste Water Treatment Plants (UWWTP, 18.842 in EU), is that state-of-the-art of commercially available technological solutions for real-time and online monitoring of aerobic biological nutrient removal (BNR), responsible for cleaning of organic pollutants from wastewater, does not meet the demands of the market. Lack of suitable solutions forces operators of UWWTPs to »drive blind« in critical situations. This often results in discharge of pollutants into receiving rivers with estimated environmental cost of 300 million EUR per year in EU.
Our innovation : WaMoS is affordable online, real-time, monitoring, diagnostic, alarming and advisory system for monitoring BNR process status, designed as Platform as a Sevice (PaaS). Our Key enabling technology is industrial biotechnology supported by Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technologies. It can completely remove risks of pollution due to problems with BNR process and as such it is an industry gamechanger. Our target is 80% reduction of unwanted biological treatment events during operation of small and medium size UWWTPs. Our customers are reponsible for cleaning waste water of 150 million inhabitants of European Union.
WaMoS is positioned as Smart Water Technology , available market amounts to 360 - 400 million EUR globally, we target market share of 30% till 2025. The main market drivers are new EU legislation, technology (IoT, ML/AI, blockchain) and strong public pressure. Our main competitor is Hach RTC solution, which is still too expensive. WaMoS will be launched on the market for the 3rd of the price of the competition.
Our unique competitive advantage is a combination of long-term (30 years) experience with excellent knowledge and understanding of biotechnology and biological processes, combined with knowledge of IT technology, water business and entrepreneurship.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
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Régime de financement
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
1000 LJUBLJANA
Slovénie
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.