Description du projet
De la mousse pour lutter contre la pollution atmosphérique
Presque tous les Européens souffrent de la pollution atmosphérique, qui, chaque année, est à l’origine de près de 400 000 décès prématurés sur le continent. En outre, 6,5 millions de personnes tombent malades, la pollution atmosphérique provoquant des maladies telles que les accidents vasculaires cérébraux, l’asthme et la bronchite. Le projet MossTree, financé par l’UE, représente une infrastructure verte urbaine basée sur une combinaison brevetée de l’Internet des objets et de la biotechnologie. Il construit le premier biofiltre régénérateur au monde basé sur des cultures de mousses, pouvant attirer la pollution atmosphérique de leur environnement et la convertir en biomasse sans laisser de résidus. Plus précisément, le projet prévoit d’installer des centaines de biofiltres dans divers points névralgiques de la circulation et de la pollution en Europe d’ici 2024. Des capteurs seront utilisés pour surveiller la qualité de l’air.
Objectif
Air Pollution is the world’s worst environmental health risk. Only in the EU, more than 400,000 people die prematurely and another 6.5 million people fall sick due to air pollution every year, with associated annual costs estimated at €1,200 billion. Current strategies for improving air quality have proven to be insufficient: (1) traffic restrictions face several barriers that hinder their immediate implementation; (2) natural vegetation is unable to improve air quality and it even shows negative effects in urban canyons, and (3) other solutions such as purifying towers are very expensive to build, have high operating costs, and generate waste. Our business opportunity relies on the urgent need of providing solutions to fight air pollution in a short-term, efficient- and costly manner, and easy to uptake by city authorities. The MossTree is an urban green infrastructure based on a patented combination of IoT & biotechnology. Moss cultures are able to attract air pollution from its surroundings and convert it into biomass without leaving any residue. The sensors incorporated in our solution monitor in real-time (1) the moss status, thus supplying automatically the required nutrients and water, and (2) the air quality enabling us to quantify the impact of our solution. Thanks to our own-developed IoT, we can maximise the filtering capacity of moss and guarantee its survival in urban environment. The MossTree Phase II project consists of the installation and certification of the impact of first MossTree Network in Berlin, with several units working in group symbiosis to showcase the efficiency of our solution in improving air quality in the real environment and specifically, in highly frequented open spaces. By 2024 we expect to have 600 MossTree Networks in Europe thus increasing the quality of life and health of 2 million European citizens. That year we expect to reach revenues of up to €250 million and have offices in several EU cities as well as Hong Kong, New York and Dubai employing more than 200 people.
Champ scientifique
CORDIS classe les projets avec EuroSciVoc, une taxonomie multilingue des domaines scientifiques, grâce à un processus semi-automatique basé sur des techniques TLN.
CORDIS classe les projets avec EuroSciVoc, une taxonomie multilingue des domaines scientifiques, grâce à un processus semi-automatique basé sur des techniques TLN.
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringwater engineeringirrigation
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
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Régime de financement
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinateur
15741 BESTENSEE
Allemagne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.