Project description
IoT technology for soil and subsoil analysis
Soil and subsoil mineralogical composition is important for a wide range of sectors such as agriculture, environment monitoring and mining activities. However, existing data collection and geochemical techniques are time-consuming, expensive, ineffective, and non-reliable due to the transfer of sampling and the use of different laboratories. As a result, new improved methods and new testing instruments are requested by the market. The EU-funded PetroRov project represents an innovative instrument for soil analysis applicable in several economic and scientific sectors. It advances IoT technology with sensor configurations to collect and analyse soil and subsoil properties. Four versions of the instrument will be developed to target the sectors of agriculture, environment, geotechnics, mining and preventive exploration archaeology.
Objective
"Soil and sub-soil mineralogical composition and structures are essential features not only for agronomic purposes, already vital to assure our future, but to other important aspects. Current collected data and geochemical methods presents several limitations and restrictions as they are 1) time consuming and expensive; 2) Sampling cannot be carried out in high density spot sites and in different seasons; 3) Samples transferred to remote laboratories may lose their original properties; 4) Analytical data of the same specimens from different labs may show strong inter-lab variation; and 5) Need high manpower and time investment. Therefore, the market needs focusing on improving soil testing methods by introducing new testing all-in-one concept machines/tool to save time, money and energy.
PetroLogic Synergy srl (PLS) innovative start-up, established on May 2015, is a spin-off of the Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy), created PetroRov. PetroRov is an innovative tool for soil analysis deploying internet of things technology, assembled in a modular way, ""customizable"" in several varieties depending on the desired needs, with sensor configurations optimized for integrated multi-parametric collection of numerous soil properties (soil and subsoil). PetroRov has applications in countless economic and scientific sectors. So far, PLS plans to present PetroRov in four different versions: AGRIPetroRov for agriculture and precision agriculture, AMBPetroRov for environmental monitoring, MINPetroRov for geotechnics, civil engineering, and mining exploration and ARCHEOPetroRov for preventive exploration archaeology.
Considering that soil testing equipment market will register a growth of 4% CAGR by 2023, PLS expects to begin PetroRov commercialization by year 2022, to obtain a return of investment of R.O.I. (5 year) = 7.53 and 10 new jobs for the company."
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering geotechnics
- engineering and technology civil engineering
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- humanities history and archaeology archaeology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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52100 AREZZO
Italy
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