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Final Workshop
The Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix Project hosted its final project conference on 24 March 2021: Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix Project Workshop - From prototype to commercialisation and everything in between…. All partners within the consortiumwere involved in organising the...
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Exchange with H2020 SMARTLAGOON
On Monday 15 March, researchers from the LIFE Ecosens Aquamonitrix and H2020 SMARTLAGOON projects held a meeting to present their respective projects, exchange information and discuss the possibility of future collaborations. Specifically, Ecosens Aquamonitrix...
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New networking session
On 10 March, members of the Ecosens Aquamonitrix project held a meeting with other researchers to share their respective projects and try to identify synergies and new possibilities for collaboration. Specifically, the session was organised by the UCAM team, and the...
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Conference on Monitoring, analysis and intelligent management of water
The Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix Project hosted a half day Spanish conference on February 2: Conference on Monitoring, analysis and intelligent management of water. The Spanish partners within the consortium, UCAM and LKS KREAN (with the support of ISEA) organised the...
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Vídeos de la Jornada
Se muestran a continuación los videos grabados en la Jornada sobre Monitorización, Análisis y Gestión Inteligente del agua. Han sido fraccionados para facilitar su visualización. En la Public Library se pueden descargar las distintas presentaciones. ...
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Jornada sobre Monitorización, análisis y gestión inteligente del agua
En el contexto de las actividades de difusión del proyecto LIFE Ecosens Aquamonitrix, ayer día 2 de Febrero tuvo lugar una Jornada sobre Monitorización, análisis y gestión inteligente del agua. La organización corrió a cargo de los partners españoles del consorcio,...
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RENURE, REcovered Nitrogen from manURE
The Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service published an interesting report last year in relation to proposals for the safe use of processed manure to advance the circular economy. The aim of the report was to establish...
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What is the cost of mitigating nitrate pollution?
What is the cost of mitigating nitrate pollution? This thought-provoking piece from The Construction Index Ltd suggests that in the south-east England, it could be pitched at around £1,235 per kilogram of nitrogen or add £3K to £4k for every new housing unit built....
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Targeted wetland restoration could greatly reduce nitrogen pollution
Recent research in Nature affirms the role of targeted wetland restoration in reducing nitrate loads to ground and surface waters. Coming in at a price-tag of about US$3.3 billion annually across the USA, they say that a spatially targeted increase in US wetland area...
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‘Water Quality Indicators Report 2019’ from Ireland
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Ireland has published the Water Quality Indicators Report 2019 which provides an assessment on Ireland’s surface water and groundwater quality. The report found that nutrient concentrations are high in a significant number...
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Look how far we have come…
Since the start of the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix project, in July 2018, there have been so many changes within TelLab, the coordinating beneficiary: Establishment of two new Departments Building our new extension First prototype will be ready to launch in 2021. Not to...
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New business launch
TelLab will launch Aquamonitrix, a nitrate/nitrite monitoring sensor soon and it is all thanks to the hard work of the beneficiaries and team members of the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix project. The project has been running for 27 months and despite the pandemic and the...
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Nuevos despliegues del prototipo
Mientras Tellab (el beneficiario coordinador del proyecto Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix) sigue trabajando en la construcción de las unidades comerciales Aquamonitrix, seguimos desplegando los prototipos en Murcia, como parte de nuestro proyecto Life para seguir...
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New deployments
While Tellab (the coordinating beneficiary on the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix project) continues to work on the first build of the commercial Aquamonitrix units, we are still deploying our prototype devices in Murcia, as part of our Life project to continue to gain...
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Presentation at the Nutrient Recovery and Removal (NRR) Conference
The researcher Claudia Galinha from the University FCT Nova of Lisbon, presented the work she and her team are doing in the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix project at IWA's Nutrient Recovery and Removal (NRR) Conference. These are the conference highlights. The video...
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NRR Conference highlights
Last week, the researcher Claudia Galinha from the University FCT Nova of Lisbon, presented the work she and her team have done during the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix project at IWA's Nutrient Recovery and Removal (NRR) Conference. Conference presentations and questions...
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Ecosens Aquamonitrix in the Nutrient Removal and Recovery conference
We are delighted that Claudia Galinha, FCT Nova will be presenting the work she and her team have done during the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix project at the IWA Nutrient Recovery & Removal Conference on 2 September. With members in more than 140 countries, the...
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The prototype is becoming a product
The members of the Ecosens Aquamonitrix project are excited to showcase the new design of the device. The deployment on the demonstration sites has provided us with a lot of information. We have learned a lot from the device's contact with the demands of the operation...
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Sensor deployed on a farm
In May, Tellab, the coordinating beneficiary, deployed one of our Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix nitrate/nitrite sensors in a domestic site in County Wexford. With the easing of restrictions in Ireland post Covid-19, this morning we were able to deploy another sensor on a...
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¡Avanzamos a pesar del Covid-19!!
La Covid-19 ha impactado en la mayoría de los proyectos y colaboraciones europeas. La situación de confinamiento ha hecho que la gente se quede en casa y no pueda realizar su trabajo habitual. A pesar de ello, el consorcio Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix ha estado...
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Still advancing despite Covid-19!!
Covid-19 has impacted on most European projects and collaborations. The lock down situation has resulted in people staying at home and not being able to carry out their usual work. Despite this, the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix consortium have been working hard to...
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Suggestion from the LIFE program
Every Friday the LIFE programme recommends interesting projects to follow. Today's topic is urban water management, and the Ecosens Aquamonitrix project is among those recommended. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. https://www.facebook.com/LifeEcosens/...
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Advanced Septic System Nitrogen Sensor Challenge
Tellab participated last December in Phase II of the "Advanced Septic System Nitrogen Sensor Challenge". This challenge is organized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States, and its objective is to measure the performance of different...
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Paper published in ScienceDirect
A team composed mainly by Tellab researchers has published a paper in the prestigious journal Science Direct. The article is entitled "Fully automated, low-cost ion chromatography system for in-situ analysis of nitrite and nitrate in natural waters" and can be...
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Paper published in the Water JCR Journal
We are pleased to inform that the article "On the Use of an IoT Integrated System for Water Quality Monitoring and Management in Wastewater Treatment Plants" has been published in Water as part of the Special Issue Smart Urban Water Networks and is available online:...
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Interview in Barcelona
The coordinator of the Ecosens Aquamonitrix project was interviewed during the LIFE Platform meeting on waste wáter treatment, which took place in Barcelona on 29 January. #LIFEPMEnvironment #LIFEproject #CleanWaterEU #WaterReuseEU
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LIFE Platform meeting on waste water treatment
The LIFE Platform meeting on waste water treatment was held in Barcelona on 29 and 30 January. This event was attended by the researchers Sandra Lacy (TE Laboratories Ltd) and Nuria Vela de Oro (UCAM), who made a presentation of the LIFE Ecosens Aquamonitrix...
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LIFE Ecosens Aquamonitrix project presented at EIP Conference
A team of researchers from UCAM (Fundación Universitaria San Antonio, Murcia, Spain) and NOVA FCT (Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal) presented the Ecosens Aquamonitrix project at the Side Meetings of the EU Water Conference....
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LIFE Ecosens Aquamonitrix project to be presented at EIP Conference
A team of researchers from UCAM (Fundación Universitaria San Antonio, Murcia, Spain) and NOVA FCT (Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal) will present the Ecosens Aquamonitrix project at the Side Meetings of the EU Water...
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LIFE Ecosens Aquamonitrix on the air
Between the 8th and 10th of November the UCAM University celebrated its Science and Technology Week with the aim of making science known to the general public. More than 400 activities were carried out during these days. The researcher Juan Miguel Navarro carried out...
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Networking session
Last week researchers of the LIFE projects Ecosens Aquamonitrix (LIFE17 ENV/IE/000237) and Life Clean up (LIFE16 ENV/ES/000169) held a meeting to exchange knowledge and lessons learned by project. The project Clean Up team is composed by: UCAM University, Spain, as...
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Networking with other projects
The aim of this action is to broaden the impact of the project Ecosens Aquamonitrix through interactions with other similar projects, allowing exchange of knowledge & lessons learned by each project. Researchers of UCAM have identified the project LIFE AgRemSO3il...
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Large Water Users Community of Practice (CoP) Meeting
Tellab, the coordinating beneficiary has been asked to present the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix project at a meeting for Ireland’s CoP for Large Water Users. The CoP comprises of over 180 of the largest production and service facilities across Ireland along with key...
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TelLab at WETEX 2019, Dubai
TE Laboratories Ltd (TelLab), the coordinating beneficiary of the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix project, is delighted to be 1 of 9 innovative Irish companies at Ireland’s pavilion this year at WETEX 2019 in Dubai on 21 – 23 October. Ireland’s pavilion is located in Hall...
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Sensors for Water Interest Group (SWIG) Biennial Conference, 25 -26 September 2019, Nottingham, UK
Last week, SWIG hosted their 5th biennial conference: Finding Sense among the noise. Since its first inception in 2009, it has become one of the UK’s leading conferences for sensor development in the Water Industry enabling delegates to stay up to date with the latest...
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Ecosens Aquamonitrix General Meeting – Bilbao 26-27 September 2019
Last week the General Meeting of the project LIFE Ecosens Aquamonitrix was held in the premises of LKS INGENIERÍA in Bilbao, Spain. During the first day the consortium discussed the results of the first phase of the project. The devices deployed in the different...
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Preparing the new version of the device
After the first round of testing the Aquamonitrix prototypes in real life conditions in the demonstration sites, the team of engineers of Tellab has gathered a lot of information about the performance and resilience of the devices. Those inputs are being used in the...
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Improved version of the device deployed in Ireland
Tellab’s engineer Luis Gutierrez was at one of the Irish sites in Teagasc, County Wexford on 22 May 2019, to deploy a Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix prototype (this device has some minor modifications which differentiates it from the units deployed in Spain in March and...
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Workshop in UCAM, Murcia, Spain
This past Thursday, May 9, 2019, the VI Workshop "Management of the integral water cycle and the environment" took place at the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM). Several presentations were made on topics related to water, from climate change and drought to...
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Last prototypes deployed. Next phase begins.
The last set of prototypes has been deployed and adjusted in the 3 WWTP in Murcia, Spain. San Pedro del Pinatar Los Alcázares Molina ...
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Deployment in the Basque Country
A team of Tellab engineers spent last week installing prototypes of the device in the WWTP of Galindo (Bilbao), Crispijana (Vitoria) and Loiola (San Sebastian) with the support of the team from LKS Ingeniería. Two devices have been installed in every plant to make...
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Some photos from Haapavesi
The prototype is being adjusted. And plugged to the Haapavesi...
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Deployments on track
Murcia deployments took place last week and four Life Eocsens Aquamonitrix sensors in two Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTPs) were deployed successfully. UCAM and Tellab worked well together with the help from the WWTP staff greatly appreciated as well. Tellab are...
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Deployment in Ireland
Tellab have successfully deployed the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix water quality sensor on site at Teagasc, County Wexford, Ireland today. It was a rainy day.. hopefully better weather in Murcia next week!!...
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First pack of prototypes
The Ecosens Aquamonitrix prototypes are being packed into boxes today at Tellab ready for shipping to Murcia WWTPs for the first deployment.
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Preparing the deployment of the prototypes
The LKS Ingenieria team has visited the demostration sites in the Basque Country, analysing the location of the prototypes and the work to be done for their installation. WWTP Loiola (San Sebastian) Location: Influent (after pretreatment) Location: Effluent WWTP...
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Visit to the demonstration sites in Murcia, Spain
The team of UCAM Universidad Católica de Murcia is visiting the different WWTP that are going to be used as demonstration sites. The objective is to plan the location of the devices inside the plants, depending on the different kinds of samplings that have to be made....
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Prototypes
TelLab engineers and technicians are busy building and testing prototype Aquamonitrix water analysers. They will be ready to go to the demonstration sites in Finland, Spain and Ireland in February. Our partners, Kemira, LKS and UCAM have been organising the...
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Tullow, Ireland
ECOSENS Aquamonitrix’s partners meet in the facilities of the coordinator of the project, TelLab, in Tullow, Ireland. The Kick-off Meeting of the ECOSENS Aquamonitrix project was held the 8th of October 2018 by T.E. Laboratories premises, in Tullow, Ireland. After a...
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