{"id":545,"date":"2019-02-21T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/?p=545"},"modified":"2019-02-21T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:21:08","slug":"amo-and-partners-launch-eu-project-ulisses-air-sensors-for-everyone-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphene.ac\/index.php\/2019\/02\/21\/amo-and-partners-launch-eu-project-ulisses-air-sensors-for-everyone-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"AMO and Partners Launch EU project ULISSES: Air sensors for everyone, everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Development of a new Mobile Gas Sensing Technology<\/strong> aiming at distributed and networked mobile gas sensing for industrial, safety, and environmental monitoring applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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European Researchers check the air quality in Kista, Sweden to kick-off the ULISSES Project activities.
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Collaboration Aims to Develop a New Class of Miniaturized Optical Gas Sensors on a Chip, Enabling Low-Cost Distributed Sensing Nodes for the Internet of Things.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AMO GmbH, Senseair AB, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology Ltd, Graphenea Semiconductor SL, Universit\u00e4t der Bundeswehr M\u00fcnchen, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and SCIPROM S\u00e0rl announced today the launch of the ULISSES project, a European collaboration to develop a new class of miniaturized optical gas sensors on a chip. The project partners will collaborate to combine silicon photonics with 2D materials, to enable fully integrated optical gas sensing nodes for the Internet of Things (IoT) that can be manufactured in large volumes at low cost and achieve performance improvements in terms of size and power consumption. The development would enable personal gas sensors embedded in wearable devices, as well as installed in public infrastructure, such as in street lighting, on busses and in taxis, or even in small unmanned aerial vehicles. The new technology aims to empower the general public to monitor and put demands on their air quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gas sensors\nare already widely used in industry and agriculture, to ensure safety of\npersonnel and to monitor and automate processes. However, the rising general\nawareness of the importance of urban indoor and outdoor air quality is now\ndriving demand for accurate, low-cost and mobile gas sensor technology. Optical\ngas sensors offer the highest sensitivity, stability and specificity in the\nmarket, however, their current cost, power consumption and size hinder them\nfrom being widely employed by the general public. ULISSES technology will\nenable compact, low-cost and low-power gas sensor nodes to be networked for\ncomprehensive and real time monitoring of air quality in urban areas. This new\napproach will provide valuable information to city planners, employers and\nlandlords to ensure a healthy indoor and outdoor environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\nleveraging recent breakthroughs of the ULISSES partners on waveguide integrated\n2D materials-based photodetectors, 1D nanowire mid-IR emitters, and mid\u200f-IR waveguide-based gas sensing, ULISSES targets a\nthree-order-of-magnitude reduction in sensor power consumption, thus permitting\nmaintenance-free battery powered operation for the first time. Furthermore, ULISSES\nwill implement a new edge-computing self-calibration algorithm that leverages\nnode-to-node communications to eliminate the main cost driver of low-cost gas\nsensor fabrication and maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AMO\nDirector and RWTH Aachen University Professor Max Lemme looks forward to\nULISSES: \u201cThis is a wonderfully challenging European project exactly in line\nwith AMO\u2019s mission to develop future Digital Hardware and to bring such new\nmaterials and technologies closer to applications. The project also fits very\nwell into the range of activities of the Aachen Graphene & 2D Materials\nCenter, set up between AMO GmbH and RWTH Aachen University.\u201d Lemme adds: \u201cWe\nare excited to work with our partners on this endeavor because it has the\npotential to ultimately improve the quality of life for every citizen!\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the\nnext 4 years, AMO will fabricate silicon photonics chips with integrated\nsilicon waveguides and 2D material-based photodetectors, developed by KTH and\nAMO. The project is coordinated by Senseair AB, a leading gas sensor supplier, supported\nby SCIPROM. Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology will further develop its\nnanotechnology process tools. The 2D materials will be provided by the Universit\u00e4t\nder Bundeswehr M\u00fcnchen and Graphenea. Senseair will lead the different\napplication demonstrators and prepare the sensors for IoT applications.  ICN2 will provide modelling and simulation, in\norder to optimize sensor design and efficiency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more\ninformation on ULISSES, please visit www.ulisses-project.eu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ULISSES\nproject has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research\nand innovation programme under grant agreement No 825272 (ULISSES).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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