Project Abstract

The deficit of clean water is becoming a problem in Europe.

There is a need to develop easily accessible, cheap and reliable microsystems for water pollution monitoring and early warning, which could be used in most water resources on our continent.

The equipment available so far is mostly of laboratory type and measures water samples inserted to the measuring device.

The solution is SEWING - System for European Water monitorING !

The objective of this proposal is to create a system of continuous water pollution monitoring in real time. Small and relatively cheap smart sensors are elaborated, which when inserted in many places of water resources collect data about pollution.

Chemically modified ISFETs (called CHEMFETs) are used as sensors. Simultaneously data processing, coding, storing and transmitting circuits are included, together with hydraulic system taking samples of measured water and standard calibrating samples. Software for visualization of the results is also prepared. This project creates flexible and user specific microsystems. Design methods and a prototype verifying the realisation of idea are elaborated. According to needs industrial versions of the system can be realised in the future and used by institutions of water management.