Argus Sensor de Qualidade da Água por Harpreet Singh Sareen

O design Argus Sensor de Qualidade da Água por Harpreet Singh Sareen é um vencedor altamente estimado do prestigioso 2021 A' Design Award de Prata na Categoria de Competição Design de Cibernética, Próteses e Implantes.

PrataCibernética· 2021

Argus Sensor de Qualidade da Água

por Harpreet Singh Sareen

Cliente: Parsons School of Design

Vencedor do A' Design Award de Prata na Categoria Cibernética

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O Design

Sobre Argus Sensor de Qualidade da Água

Argus é um sistema de monitorização da qualidade da água baseado numa planta viva. São injetados nanossensores nas folhas, onde permanecem no espaço intercelular. Os sensores produzem um brilho visível de um comprimento de onda de luz específico. Quando o chumbo presente na água circundante chega às folhas, o brilho diminui, indicando que a água contém impurezas. A planta recolhe amostras de água continuamente e não necessita de eletricidade. O resultado surge num intervalo de quinze minutos a duas horas, sendo mais rápido do que os testes laboratoriais.

O Reconhecimento

Sobre o A' Design Award de Prata

Argus Sensor de Qualidade da Água conquistou o A' Design Award de Prata, um reconhecimento extraordinariamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de topo de gama, deslumbrantes e impressionantes. Os vencedores da Prata são obras tremendamente brilhantes e extremamente criativas que ilustram a perícia, o talento e a acuidade excecionais dos seus designers. Espera-se que Argus Sensor de Qualidade da Água seja uma obra maravilhosa e de referência, notavelmente profissional e profundamente inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Prata é uma invenção muito notável e admirada, que beneficia e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Argus Sensor de Qualidade da Água é uma criação imensamente invejada que desperta desejos, traz sentimentos positivos e faz nascer espanto e deslumbramento.

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Propriedades 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.
Dimensões e Embalagem: 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
Tecnologia de Produção: 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.
Desafio de Design: 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.
Pesquisa: 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.
Inspiração: 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.
Duração do Projeto: 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.
Fluxo de Operação: 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.
Membros da Equipa: Harpreet Sareen
Pattie Maes
Créditos de Imagem: Images: Harpreet Sareen CC 4.0
Motion graphics: Jiefu Zheng