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21 Sensor100 January 2016
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Intelligent sensors that map out the presence of chemi-
cal pollutants in the sea
Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica deValència (Polytechnic University of Valen-
cia, UPV) have designed an intelligent sensor system which enables the immediate de-
tection and delimitation of toxic waste, diesel, and hydrocarbons in general in any body
of water.Tested under laboratory conditions, it is able to detect even very small con-
centrations of chemical pollutants and maps out their precise location and spread. The
sensors developed by UPV researchers are embedded in small floating devices. Based
on sophisticated algorithms, the system is made up of several such wireless nodes that
move independently through the spill in search of its outer limits.
Reported by 11 January