FP7 Multi Sensor Platform Project Initiated for Building Management, Mobile Applications

In collaboration with a European consortium, Holst Centre has engaged in a new EU funded multi-sensor research project. The three-year, €18 million project has the objective of strengthening the leadership of European industries in the highly competitive area of smart sensing systems in building management and mobile applications.

The new project aims to develop novel technology that can sense multiple hazardous gases and other environmental parameters. This could open entirely new applications in smart building management and the ability to use smartphones to monitor air quality and detect harmful gases like carbon monoxide in the home.

The Multi Sensor Platform (MSP) project will be led by Materials Center Leoben and comprises of 17 large and small companies, universities and public research centres from six European countries. The partners include: Materials Center Leoben, ams AG and EV Group (EVG) from Austria; AppliedSensor GmbH, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Siemens AG and the University of Freiburg from Germany; Boschman Technologies B.V. from the Netherlands; the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Warwick, Cambridge CMOS Sensors and Samsung R&D Institute UK, from the United Kingdom; the University of Louvain and Vito from Belgium; and Universitá degli studi di Brescia from Italy.

The MSP project started in the autumn of 2013 and is due to complete in 2016.