Mobile biosensor for water quality monitoring

Author

Staudacher, P. ; Wolf, B. ; Schmidhuber, M. ; Wiest, J.

Author_Institution

R&D, cellasys GmbH, Munich, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

13-15 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Monitoring and maintaining the quality of water is important since it is one of the most important resources and the basis of all life. However, current methods are stationary or obsolete. The IMOLA system is able to measure the vitality of living cells online, marker free and in real time through a multiparametric microsensor chip. In combination with green algae as signal transducers it was elucidated how an emulsion of oil in water affects the vitality of the algae. It was shown that the system using the green algae Parachlorella kessleri as biosensor unit is suitable for mobile, online-detection of changes in water quality.

Keywords

biosensors; chemical sensors; emulsions; environmental monitoring (geophysics); living systems; microorganisms; microprocessor chips; microsensors; oils; transducers; water quality; water resources; IMOLA system; Parachlorella kessleri; biotope water; emulsion; environmental monitoring; green algae; living cells; mobile biosensor; multiparametric microsensor chip; oil detection; signal transducer; water quality monitoring; whole-cell biosensor system; Algae; Biosensors; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Pollution measurement; Temperature measurement; Wireless sensor networks; Biological Cells; Biosensor; Environmental monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AFRICON, 2011

Conference_Location

Livingstone

ISSN

2153-0025

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-992-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRCON.2011.6072030

Filename

6072030