Imagine a smart security system for a city's water, but instead of burglars, it looks for invisible pollutants like microplastics and medicine residues. It uses high-tech sensors and digital maps to predict where pollution will spread before it happens. This helps cities fix water problems quickly and keep the water safe even during extreme weather.
Urban water systems struggle to detect and manage emerging pollutants like PFAS and microplastics, especially under the stress of climate change. This leads to reactive rather than proactive water quality management.
A water quality management platform featuring real-time sensors, digital pollution prediction tools, and risk-based management plans.
If you are a municipal water treatment provider dealing with unpredictable pollution spikes from climate change — this project developed a water quality management platform that provides real-time sensing and risk-based interventions to ensure water safety.
If you are a water sensor manufacturer dealing with the need for more precise detection of PFAS and microplastics — this project developed new soft-sensing techniques that improve the monitoring of emerging pollutants across 5 Demo Cases.
If you are a city infrastructure consultancy dealing with outdated water management plans — this project developed digital tools to estimate difficult-to-measure pollutants, allowing for evidence-based operational awareness of urban water systems.
Based on available project data, specific pricing or cost structures are not provided as the project is in the research and demonstration phase.
The project is testing the tools across 5 Demo Cases in Switzerland, Spain, Greece, the Netherlands, and the UK to validate efficacy before full-scale rollout.
Based on available project data, the specific IP and licensing terms are not listed; however, the project involves 16 partners including 8 industry entities.
The project is designed to align with the EU zero pollution action plan, specifically targeting the reduction of nutrients, heavy metals, and microplastics.
The project runs from 2026-01-01 to 2029-12-31.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward commercial application, with a 50% industry ratio (8 out of 16 partners). The presence of 3 SMEs and a diverse geographic spread across 7 countries suggests a strong focus on market scalability and cross-border validation of the water management tools.
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