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AMUSENS

Energy Environment

AMUSENS - Transforming the invisible!

The idea: developing a multi-pixel gas sensor platform adjustable to a range of gas environments for a wide range of devices and consumer markets

Reference Number: 101130159
Program type: Horizon Europe
Program acronym: HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE

The project

Gas sensors are essential in multiple sanitary and environmental applications, such as the monitoring of personal or professional exposure to air pollutants, or in the healthcare field to help diagnose diseases or monitor patients using breath analysis. These applications require miniaturized, low power and low-cost gas sensors with good gas selectivity to be integrated into personal devices, product packaging or widely distributed sensor networks. AMUSEMS is aiming to develop a gas sensor platform with flexible selectivity for different gas environments by combining a multi-pixel approach and artificial intelligence. It is based on metal oxide-based detection materials on a unique micro-hotplate platform. Though there are already selective multi-pixel sensors based on different metal oxide materials in the literature, their industrialization is currently limited to a few industrially available materials. By using original additive manufacturing approaches for local deposits in liquid phase and gas phase, we are aiming to expand the choice of materials available and demonstrate their sustainability in platform-scale processing. Artificial intelligence will be used both to accelerate the choice of materials and to merge data to determine specific gas analysis models. Two specific applications targeting personal exposure and healthcare will demonstrate the effectiveness of this multi-pixel platform based on advanced processing provided by AI.

In brief:
A universal component of air quality measurement

Budget:
€8m including €1m for IMT, 10 partners, 8 countries.

Application

Identifying sources of pollution, evaluating personal exposure to air pollutants, contributing to the development of an indoor air quality index, early detection of diseases via breath analysis.

10 partners, 8 countries

  • Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
  • TECHNIKON Forschungs- und Planungsgesellschaft mbH
  • Science For Change
  • Université de Liège
  • ATLANT 3D
  • JLM Innovation GmbH
  • University of Brescia
  • Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT)
  • ScioSense
  • Ellona

IMT Nord Europe tasked with two major objectives

  • The Energy Environment CERI (Centre d’Enseignement, de Recherche et d’Innovation, Center for Education, Research and Innovation) is tasked with qualification of metal oxide materials developed by project partners. Metrological performance criteria such as sensitivity to different selected gases of interest for the targeted applications (individual exposure and breath analysis), detection limit, response time, will be determined under controlled conditions in the laboratory according to a strict protocol. The measurements will populate a database permitting data scientists (IMT – TSP) to determine the best possible combination of materials to integrate into the final multipixel platform.
  • The CERI EE will deploy the multi-pixel platform in an in-the-field campaign intended to evaluate the suitability of this tool to qualify and quantify individual exposure of school cleaning staff. The objective will be to identify the most hazardous cleaning products and practices, and suggest lower-risk alternatives.

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