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Going on with this approach we managed to think a prototype based on naked-eye visible red flouresensce. | Going on with this approach we managed to think a prototype based on naked-eye visible red flouresensce. | ||
| - | Once the device detect the pollutants, it generates a colour gradient that can be compared with a range of already known tests. | + | Once the device detect the pollutants (read "The Sensor" below), it generates a colour gradient that can be compared with a range of already known tests ("The Reporter"). |
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| + | <div align="left">[[Team:Buenos_Aires/_tour-moti | Back]] </div> | ||
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| + | = The Sensor = | ||
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| + | The device has to main parts: One of them senses the pollutant and sends a signal, and the other one receive this signal and create a response based on it. | ||
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| + | By using the term "Sensing" we are talking about the bacteria measuring the pollutant and sending a signal based on its density. To stop this signal, we use the wellknown method [[Link|incoherent feed forward]]. Otherwise, we couldn't make a quantification of the pollutans, because it'd continue producing signal for ever. | ||
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| + | = The Reporter = | ||
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| + | The reporter is our second main part. It's a receptor of the signal and based on that it starts producing colour. After a time, the colour could be seen naked-eye without help of any instrument. Depending of the density of the pollutant the colour will be more or less intense. | ||
<div align="left">[[Team:Buenos_Aires/_tour-moti | Back]] </div> | <div align="left">[[Team:Buenos_Aires/_tour-moti | Back]] </div> | ||
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Revision as of 17:49, 22 August 2013
The Device
We needed to make a device easy to use and cheap, but also it should be quantitative.
What a problem, isn't it?!
Going on with this approach we managed to think a prototype based on naked-eye visible red flouresensce. Once the device detect the pollutants (read "The Sensor" below), it generates a colour gradient that can be compared with a range of already known tests ("The Reporter").
The Sensor
The device has to main parts: One of them senses the pollutant and sends a signal, and the other one receive this signal and create a response based on it.
By using the term "Sensing" we are talking about the bacteria measuring the pollutant and sending a signal based on its density. To stop this signal, we use the wellknown method incoherent feed forward. Otherwise, we couldn't make a quantification of the pollutans, because it'd continue producing signal for ever.
The Reporter
The reporter is our second main part. It's a receptor of the signal and based on that it starts producing colour. After a time, the colour could be seen naked-eye without help of any instrument. Depending of the density of the pollutant the colour will be more or less intense.
