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Name: Paola Lira
Name: Paola Lira


City: Lima (Peru)
Email: arilyes at yahoo.com


Email: arilyes at yahoo.com
Now: at MIT


I would like to design a low cost sensor for sensing pathogens and contaminants in food, water and soil. I would develop a permittivity based sensor for real time sensing of pathogens and contaminants. It immobilizes any patogen or contaminant and then the capacitance of a reference sensor and that of target sensor are compared. If the capacitances differ,the patogen or contaminat is present.
I would like to design a low cost sensor for sensing pathogens and contaminants in food, water and soil. I would develop a permittivity based sensor for real time sensing of pathogens and contaminants. It immobilizes any patogen or contaminant and then the capacitance of a reference sensor and that of target sensor are compared. If the capacitances differ,the patogen or contaminat is present.
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* USB A-B
* USB A-B
* Wires
* Wires
* Resistors 10M
* Resistors


Software:
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* http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/howto_run_arduino_on_the.html
* http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/howto_run_arduino_on_the.html


Experiment 1: Soil
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* Soil samples

* Sensors setup

* Data analysis

Experiment 2: Food



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Revision as of 03:35, 22 August 2008

Name: Paola Lira

City: Lima (Peru)

Email: arilyes at yahoo.com

I would like to design a low cost sensor for sensing pathogens and contaminants in food, water and soil. I would develop a permittivity based sensor for real time sensing of pathogens and contaminants. It immobilizes any patogen or contaminant and then the capacitance of a reference sensor and that of target sensor are compared. If the capacitances differ,the patogen or contaminat is present.

Each individual sensor or a group of them can be functionalized for a given specific target: E. coli, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Salmonella, Hg, Pb, As.

With the use of mathematical algorithms, the rate of positive events provides data about the concentration of the target pathogem or contaminant.

The sensor will use low costs chips and insumes for sample preparation. The sensor will be connected through USB ports.


Biosensor.jpg DSC02796.JPG


Hardware:

  • XO
  • Arduino Diecimila
  • USB A-B
  • Wires
  • Resistors

Software:

Experiment 1: Soil

  • Soil samples
  • Sensors setup
  • Data analysis

Experiment 2: Food



I will post updates on my blog http://scitechbizdev.blogspot.com/