Proposal for Lab2Market I2I Market Assessment Integrated micromachined sensors for pest detection

Lab2Market I2I 市场评估提案用于害虫检测的集成微机械传感器

• 批准号: 571225-2022
• 负责人: Emadi, Arezoo
• 金额: $ 1.46万
• 依托单位: University of Windsor
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Idea to Innovation
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=729079
• 关键词: Proposal; Lab2Market; I2I; Market; Assessment

Greenhouse ecosystems contain a variety of pests that pose a significant risk to the marketability of the resulting product and cause significant economic loss. Current methods for identifying these pests fall short in autonomously and accurately detecting them before damage becomes visible and intervention becomes impractical. Addressing this concern is imperative as greenhouse agriculture is a significant element of the Canadian economy. Innovations in portable electronic nose and micromachined sensors are revolutionizing the field of health and agriculture by extending the capabilities of diagnosing tools and monitoring devices beyond human senses and perceptions. The adoption of our proposed solution and developed novel electronic nose technology will facilitate the technology transfer of urgently needed miniaturized, high-efficiency, high performance, and cost-effective smart sensor system, developed as a competitive production system for autonomous early detection of target pests at the application level. A market study will be conducted to assess the viability of commercializing a new chemical technology that will allow for the simple and fast detection of pests in the greenhouse sector. This solution is built upon patented technologies that have been combined into a prototype that is already installed in a commercial greenhouse to remotely monitor the environment. Further R&D studies are being explored to improve this sensor. Scale-up production experiments are also needed to support market entry. We expect that the assessment will confirm that there is a commercial interest in this technology and will identify factors affecting adoption, key stakeholders and commercialization partners, and the need for new approaches to improve growing of food that feeds millions of people in Canada and around the world.

温室生态系统含有多种害虫，对所得产品的适销性构成重大风险，并造成重大经济损失。目前识别这些害虫的方法无法在损害变得明显且干预变得不切实际之前自动准确地检测它们。解决这一问题势在必行，因为温室农业是加拿大经济的重要组成部分。便携式电子鼻和微机械传感器的创新将诊断工具和监测设备的功能扩展到人类感官和感知之外，正在彻底改变健康和农业领域。采用我们提出的解决方案和开发的新型电子鼻技术将促进急需的小型化、高效、高性能和具有成本效益的智能传感器系统的技术转让，该系统被开发为具有竞争力的生产系统，用于自主早期检测目标害虫在应用程序级别。将进行一项市场研究，以评估新化学技术商业化的可行性，该技术将允许简单快速地检测温室领域的害虫。该解决方案建立在专利技术的基础上，这些技术已合并到一个原型中，该原型已安装在商业温室中以远程监控环境。正在探索进一步的研发研究以改进该传感器。还需要扩大生产实验来支持市场进入。我们预计评估将确认这项技术具有商业利益，并将确定影响采用的因素、主要利益相关者和商业化合作伙伴，以及是否需要新方法来改善为加拿大及周边地区数百万人提供食物的粮食种植。世界。