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WANDA: A Radically New Approach for Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring

Fay, Cormac orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-9104-5527, Beirne, Stephen, Ó Conaire, Ciarán, McGuinness, Kevin orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1336-6477, McGovern, Scott, Coleman, Greg, Shepherd, Roderick, Lau, King-Tong orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-7818-7010, Corcoran, Brian, O'Connor, Noel E. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-4033-9135, Alici, Gursel, Spinks, Geoff, Wallace, Gordon and Diamond, Dermot orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2944-4839 (2011) WANDA: A Radically New Approach for Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring. In: ACES Electromaterials Symposium 2011, February 9th - 11th, 2011, AIIM/IPRI, Innovation Campus, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Abstract
The cost of monitoring pollutants within natural waters is of major concern. Existing and forthcoming bodies of legislation continually drive the demand for spatial and selective monitoring of key pollutants within our environment. Although research and commercial entities continue to drive down the cost of the infrastructure involved in environmental sensing systems (with an aim to increase scalability), the realisation of deploying a number of such systems even now remains out of reach. High cost and maintenance continue to persist as the major limiting factors. The aim of this work is to combine recent advances in robotics with chemical sensing techniques to remove all but the chemo-responsive material from each sensing node, and package the sensing element within a low cost, mobile, biomimetic robotic fish for effective water quality monitoring. Consequently, this approach is believed to radically reduce the systemic cost and maintenance per node and in doing so it will increase the scalability for spatial and selective monitoring of key pollutants within our environment.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:No
Subjects:Engineering > Imaging systems
Engineering > Robotics
Engineering > Environmental engineering
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP)
Research Initiatives and Centres > Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC)
Research Initiatives and Centres > CLARITY: The Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
Research Initiatives and Centres > National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR)
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland, Australian Research Council
ID Code:16233
Deposited On:24 Mar 2011 09:34 by Cormac Fay . Last Modified 24 Jan 2019 15:11
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