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The Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) is in the process of lighting a new technology-based company (EBT) to provide environmental monitoring services and other 'smart city' applications based on a new low-consumption and long-range technology for Data transmission
This EBT is made up of researchers from the Telematics Engineering group and a graduate of ETSIT, Dr. Juan Bautista Tomás.
Researchers in the Telematic Engineering group led by Joan García Haro have developed low-cost and small-sized pollution meters that can transmit data up to 30 kilometers away from LoRa antennas with which they want to cover the entire regional geography.
They already have one installed in the CEDIT building of the UPCT in the Álamo Technology Park, with which they cover the entire Cartagena countryside and reach Mazarrón and Pilar de la Horadada.
“We are talking with the municipalities of Murcia, Yecla and Caravaca to cover the entire Region,†explains the project manager, Antonio Javier García.
The project, developed with the group's own resources and in which Professor Rafael Asorey and Ph.D. Pablo Marco is also participating, will lead to the creation of a spin-off that will collect the 'know-how' generated by their research to offer low cost monitoring services, of special interest to different sectors and, in particular, the agricultural sector.
"Our already calibrated devices have much lower cost than the current measuring stations and have demonstrated an accuracy of over 90%," says Asorey, also emphasizing its small size and great autonomy, up to three months.
Their housings, with the UPCT shield, have been printed in 3D by the Technological Research Support Service (SAIT) of the Polytechnic.
"They transmit data at intervals of less than five minutes that once they reach the reception system are automatically dumped into a database," he explains.
The group has also created a mobile application to disseminate the collected data.
The devices are already measuring different pollution parameters, even collecting radiation values ​​in sensitive areas of the port city.
The researchers have started from the experience in developments of pollution sensors acquired during the European CAMoN project they led.
“Then we use Wi-Fi networks.
With LoRA technology we have lower consumption and greater reach and, what is more important, we get the data in real time, â€says Professor Antonio J. García.
"And it also minimizes the attenuation in the transmission from indoor spaces with respect to the 4G and 5G networks," he adds.
The group is also collaborating in the CrOWD project of the University of Santiago de Cali, led by Dr. Claudia Zúñiga, for the deployment of this cutting-edge technology for air quality monitoring in the Colombian city, which suffers a huge saturation of traffic.
"LoRa has great potential to start the development of smart cities and precision agriculture in Latin America," says Asorey.
Source: UPCT
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