projects

2014, BEWS introductory meeting

- Main objectives: Development of a cost-effective, sensitive, biological based early warning system for on- line monitoring of freshwater contamination - Current situation - addressed problems: Demand for the development of an alarm system immediately sensing water quality change has been growing in the past decades. Either from the side of reducing environmental contamination or to lessen financial expenditure for reconstruction the timely observation of the contaminating accident is necessary and beneficial. Chemical pollution of natural waters from industrial, agricultural or communal sources, as well as ineffective water treatment processes to remove pharmaceutical products and their metabolites in sewage treatment plants hold a huge risk of environmental disaster and threaten human health. Therefore, by using experiences obtained from the usage of different biologically based monitoring systems, the aim of this proposal primarily is to develop a competitive model of an early warning biological sensor with satisfactory sensitivity, wide applicability and low running expense. - Major target groups: Environmental authorities, companies, pharmaceutical industries, sewage treatment plants - Innovation challenge: Selection of living organism used in the early warning system according to local climatic and ecosystem conditions. Sensor development. Introduction of new mathematical models in data acquisition and processing. Validation with chemical based system. Remote sensing. - Activities: Extensive laboratory work is carried out in which we select the species according to the local environment, physiological outputs, diurnal and annual biorhythm and background noise filtering. Also effects of non-specific conditions will be carefully revised and investigated. The system’s sensitivity against known heavy metals, organic pollutants, and also for novel contaminants of emerging concern is determined. In field studies the behaviour of the sentinel living organisms is traced, and the arrangement will be refined in the laboratory if necessary. Significant activities concern the innovation of the mechanical, electronic devices of the model and the development of highly sophisticated informatics including ones using novel mathematical methods, and remote sensing. The project needs multidisciplinary approaches from the fields of ecology, physiology, engineering, physical and chemical sciences. - Project milestones: Innovation of a biological-based early warning system, with special emphasis to the development of software possessing data acquisition, and assessment modules. - Applicant+partners AquaTerra Lab. Ltd, Veszprém, Hungary (consortium leader company) Centre for Ecological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Tihany, Hungary International Research Institute Stavanger, Norway South-West University of Scotland, Paisley, United Kingdom Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey Port Said University, Egypt University of Tunis, Tunisia IN Srl, Udine, Italy

2013 - 2015, ENTUDAT project

ENTUDAT (Development of a complex tool and application kit to help consumer and institutional energy effectiveness and consciousness). The goal of the project is to develop a complex tool and application kit which creates the basis of a program, which stimulates environmental consciousness and energy efficiency, what fits into the program „Turn it off”, which is part of the Europe 2020 growth strategy. During the project a system is developed, which makes smart consumption reading possible without the need of changing the meters. Information acquired this way also helps the costumer in efficient energy usage. The system to be developed can support not only the costumer, but also the operative and statistical goals of the government, and can be an information source for utility service companies. The emphasized goal of the product package is to enhance consumer and institutional energy efficiency, therefore information, which is transmitted every 15 minutes by a camera developed specially for this purpose to an application running on a PDA or tablet (or if the need arises from the costumer, PC) can be analysed by the owner or the operator. From historical data the software is able to analyse trends, outstanding values, thus making a possibility for the continuous monitoring of their energy consumption, planning, furthermore it can send alarms when previously defined values appear.

2013-2015, GRID project

The goal of the project is, that by continuously monitoring quality parameters of surface water bodies (streams, water flows, rivers, lakes, reservoirs), and if the need arises, by doing control measurements and with the help of online information services we can ensure, the high quality and efficient protection of the three most important traits of sustainability: wildlife, environment and technologies installed in the environment of waters. The result of the project will be a complex, integrated, scalable, mobile, service package with extended reach, which has a functionality tailored to the user profiles. During the project on one hand, we establish a grid based mobile measurement system which covers the investigated territory as a net by network extension. On the other hand, as a part of this grid, we develop sensor based (cheap, low operational cost) remote controlled measurement devices. The system is based on a communication structure which is completed with accreditable measurement devices installed on control points, and gives online information about critical and reference points.

2017 - 2021

EN: SediMONER project

• Even if all other sources of contaminants have been eliminated, contaminants can cause problems up to years later if stirred up

• Precise knowledge of the movement and dynamics of pollutants in surface waters is awaiting.

In the absence of a suitable measuring instrument the behaviour and chemical composition of the creeping sediment has not been mapped so far

MONITORING OF CREEPING SEDIMENT is an increasingly important issue in the future

Sediment quality MONitoring automated samplER Installed automated sampling solution for monitoring loose creeping sediment contamination in surface waterbeds. „ Innovative automated waterbed monitor for surface water sludge contamination, complementing existing solutions ” MTI, Hungarian News Agency

HU: HOMER projekt

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Project ID: GINOP-2.2.1-15-2017-00070

for automated creeping sediment monitoring in surface water • Timely detection of covert, slowly spreading toxic contamination • Observation of the upper moving layer of sediment on the river bed • Detection of water contaminants which could not be investigated but have serious consequences • Possibility to prevent spread.