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OASIS: Optimizing Air Safety for Indoor Spaces
OASIS develops advanced solutions for sustainable air-quality management, delivering precise assessments of environmental conditions and impact parameters. This enables the accurate identification and quantification of actual forced-ventilation needs, ensuring healthy indoor air without energy oversizing and optimizing the overall performance of ventilation systems.
Objectives
OASIS aims to develop a continuous indoor air quality monitoring system with applications for sustainable health risk management.
The system will identify the need for forced ventilation, thus ensuring healthy air without oversizing energy consumption and identifying the best way to use ventilation systems.
This is why the OASIS project, developed as part of the Innovation Agreements of the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, will develop and test an integrated methodology capable of analysing large amounts of experimental data and assessing the impact of pollutants on health in indoor environments. Several field campaigns will be conducted, during which sensors for detecting ventilation systems and air pollution levels will be accompanied by the use of a highly innovative cellular exposure module, equipped with specific housings in which human bronchial cells will be inserted.
Through the monitoring system, ENEA will be able to characterise the chemical-physical parameters of the air in a controlled environment and assess the toxicological effects of air pollutants on bronchial cells.
AI and data visualisation systems developed by Cefriel will be useful for managing the large amount of data needed to predict future environmental pollution and its effects on the population living in those areas. The output of the surveys will consist of a set of relevant, well-structured and reliable information from which it will be possible to deduce models for predicting the dynamics of particulate matter in the structure of interest, thanks to which action can be taken to protect health and well-being
Using a biotagging-based solution, Healthy Reply will be able to use DNA traces to monitor the dispersion of pollutants in the air, offering an advanced system for tracking air flows and aerosols. This technology enables accurate analysis of the movements of pollutants or contaminants, improving environmental management and response to health risks.
The system uses smart, low-cost sensors to enrich tagging data with air quality information for continuous environmental monitoring.
The ventilation system monitoring system, with IoT-Edge nodes and integrated AI, promptly detects operational anomalies, improving efficiency and safety through AI for predictive maintenance.
OASIS
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“Optimizing Air Safety for Indoor Spaces (OASIS)” project, coordinated by Concept Reply, was signed on 24 January 2024 by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy and Santer Reply (Concept Reply and Healthy Reply), ENEA, and Cefriel S.c.a.r.l.
Concept Reply is in charge of the development and integration of the continuous monitoring system that leverages on advanced technology and smart sensors with embedded AI to ensure optimal environmental conditions and sustainable usage of ventilation systems.
“Optimizing Air Safety for Indoor Spaces (OASIS)” project (Innovation Agreement – Project No. F/350321/01-03/X60)) is funded by Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy within the program Accordi per l’Innovazione (DM 31/12/2021, D.D. 14/11/2022).