Argus Sensor de Calidad del Agua de Harpreet Singh Sareen

El diseño Argus Sensor de Calidad del Agua de Harpreet Singh Sareen es un ganador altamente estimado del prestigioso 2021 A' Design Award de Plata en la categoría de competición Diseño de Cibernética.

PlataCibernética· 2021

Argus Sensor de Calidad del Agua

de Harpreet Singh Sareen

Cliente: Parsons School of Design

Ganador del A' Design Award de Plata en la Categoría Cibernética

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El Diseño

Acerca de Argus Sensor de Calidad del Agua

Argus es un sistema de monitorización de la calidad del agua basado en una planta viva. Se inyectan nanosensores en las hojas, donde permanecen en el espacio intercelular. Los sensores producen un resplandor visible de una longitud de onda lumínica específica. Cuando el plomo presente en el agua circundante llega a las hojas, ese resplandor disminuye, lo que indica que el agua contiene impurezas. La planta toma muestras de agua de forma continua y no necesita electricidad. El resultado se obtiene en un plazo de quince minutos a dos horas, lo que resulta más rápido que los análisis de laboratorio.

El Reconocimiento

Acerca del A' Design Award de Plata

Argus Sensor de Calidad del Agua ha ganado el A' Design Award de Plata, un reconocimiento extraordinariamente prestigioso concedido a diseños de gama alta, magníficos e impresionantes. Los ganadores de Plata son obras tremendamente brillantes y sumamente creativas que ilustran la destacada experiencia, el talento y la agudeza de sus diseñadores. Se espera que Argus Sensor de Calidad del Agua sea una obra maravillosa y emblemática, notablemente profesional y profundamente innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Plata es una invención muy notable y admirada que beneficia y hace avanzar las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. Argus Sensor de Calidad del Agua es una creación enormemente envidiada que evoca deseos, aporta sentimientos positivos y despierta asombro y admiración.

Detrás del Diseño

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Créditos, miembros del equipo y detalles técnicos proporcionados por el diseñador.

Propiedades Únicas: Argus is a living plant that continuously monitors water for heavy metal impurities, with nanosensors inside its leaves. These sensors, of the order 2nm, are injected inside the leaves and stay within the intercellular space. A living plant continuously samples water in the environment and any impurities that come along with it. Such method of detecting heavy metal toxicity is real time, showing a visible output within 15mins to 2 hours, in contrast to current lab methods.
Dimensiones y Embalaje: 457mm x 821mm x 304mm
This includes height of the plant and the imaging setup to read from inside a plant
Etiquetas: nanosensors, carbon nanotubes, living plants, DNA, water monitoring
Tecnología de Producción: Argus is a plant with DNA nanosensors inside it that detects Lead (Pb2 Heavy Metal). This novel method allows living plants to provide an optical readout of Lead in water. First, a DNAZyme is used as sensor assay inside leaves, double stranded DNA that breaks into single stranded on contact with Pb2 and binds to single walled carbon nanotubes. Following introduction of Pb2 ions, the fluorescence output is quenched and this reduction is proportional to the Lead(II) concentration.
Desafío de Diseño: The following challenges had to be overcome to create world's first electricity free water monitoring platform.
No current real time off the shelf sensors exist for Lead toxicity monitoring. Sample testing takes approximately 1 to 2 weeks.
The chemical sensors inside plants also needed a digital connection with the digital world.
This sensor scheme did not have to use electricity, since it relies on a plant acting like a motor. Such process is then able to sample water 24 hours a day.
Investigación: Industrial waste management has lead to depletion of water quality in rivers in many regions. Current processes of monitoring the water quality are not realtime. Our traditional sensors have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. We propose new nanosensors providing auxiliary sensing in conjunction with the natural system of a plant. These nanosensors provide an optical readout of lead in water by relying on a plants natural function near riverbeds.
Inspiración: This project is motivated by Flint water crisis, New Jersey school water problems, Austin Mar 2019 water advisory and many more. Current trend shows that by the time impurities are usually found in residential or agricultural, it is too late and has previously proven to be fatal. This is because continuous, cheap or off the shelf monitoring methods along river beds do not exist today. Argus on the other hand, provides an electricity free fully continuous water monitoring platform.
Duración del Proyecto: This project was stated in 2017 and finished in 2019. It has been exhibited around the world such as Science Gallery Bangalore, Future of Everything WSJ Festival in NYC.
Flujo de Operación: Argus has nanonsensors injected inside the leaves of a living plant. A plant is like a natural motor in the environment operating twenty four hours without electricity. It continuously samples water and with that any impurities as well. Our nanosensors normally produce a visible glow of a specific light wavelength on the plant. When lead impurities from the environment come in contact with the nanosensors, this glow disappears to indicate that there are impurities in the environment.
Miembros del Equipo: Harpreet Sareen
Pattie Maes
Créditos de Imagen: Images: Harpreet Sareen CC 4.0
Motion graphics: Jiefu Zheng