Biosensor and PNT integration: what is feasible?

Register for the Final Presentation of the NAVISP EL1-068 Project: "Biosensor and PNT integration: what is feasible?"

The increasing market uptake on the number of applications that rely on Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) technologies and on those including biosensors sparked the idea of combining both sensor types.

In the ESA funded BIO.PNT project a team of interdisciplinary researchers studied the potential of integrating PNT technologies with biosensors and developed an exemplary application design concept for the integration of biosensors and PNT technology for environmental water quality monitoring.

Different types of biosensors and their integration potential for PNT technologies were analyzed. Based on a state-of-the-art analysis, a market scoping and trade-off analysis was performed to provide an exemplary concept for a BIO.PNT sensor. In the end a sensor box was conceptualized that can continuously detect possible organophosphate contamination in fresh water without sample preparation. In combination with PNT technology, the time of measurement, position and, if applicable, navigation parameters can be assigned to each measured value. This data would allow for environmental monitoring assessing water quality in natural ecosystems, lakes, and rivers to understand and mitigate the impact of human activities.

The project was delivered by the Fraunhofer Society with its Center for Maritime Logistics and Services CML, its institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB, as well as its Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, and TeleOrbit GmbH.

EL1-068 “Biosensor and PNT integration: what is feasible?” was funded by NAVISP Element 1, which is dedicated to technology innovation of the European industry in the wide PNT sector.

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