IBAIA, 2022-2026

To better meet end user needs and improve environmental water quality monitoring, IBAIA will develop four innovative optimally functionalised sensor modules based on complementary photonics and electrochemical (EC) technologies. Mid-IR will be used to detect organic chemicals, Vis-NIR for microplastics and salinity, Optode technology for physicochemical parameters, and EC technology for nutrient salts and heavy metals. Leveraging consortium expertise in cutting edge material science, microfluidics, data processing and integration/packaging technology, these four sensors will be integrated and packaged into a single advanced multisensing system and validated by end users in real in situ conditions.

The IBAIA system will more accurately monitor a wider range of parameters than existing solutions, whilst simultaneously being more cost effective, more reliable, more environmentally friendly to manufacture, and more user friendly to use. These dramatic improvements will manifest in an extremely competitive product that acts as a one-size-fits-all solution for many end users, with a highly EU-centric supply chain, that will supplant a wide number of inferior non-EU alternative solutions.

During this project, the contribution of Cedre will be to perform lab testing of EC sensors (WP3), lab validation of Mid-IR and EC sensors in wastewater, and pilot scale testing of the full system in accidental chemical release scenarios, as well as organising in-field campaigns to  evaluate full system in-field (WP6).

Project website: https://ibaia.eu/