Environmental Monitoring Solutions Limited

This project will explore the opportunities and challenges associated with the wider deployment of a 'proven' prototype hand pump monitor called MANTIS. The study will seek to further develop and deploy the MANTIS system and will consider the technological, societal, and market issues associated with its application to rural India. It is anticipated that ...

Soft fruit is an exciting product area with excellent growth potential. Although UK soft production is growing by ca. 8%/year, **demand for** berries by UK consumers still exceeds supply. Continued growth is needed to displace often inferior imports, but this must be achieved on a sustainable basis through efficient utilisation of valuable resources (prim...

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There is increasing consumer and retailer demand for high-quality UK-grown strawberries, and this will increase further post-BREXIT as retailers favour British produce. Currently, c. 30% (Defra) of strawberries consumed in the UK are imported, and so there is a great opportunity to displace these, often inferior, imports during the home-grown season and b...

"IRONMAN is a new waste water treatment control technology based on artificial intelligence. It is used to control the addition of iron additives to remove phosphate before water is returned to rivers. It will be much cheaper and much easier to deploy that existing technologies. It will be particularly applicable on smaller waste water treatment sites, wh...

UK raspberry production was worth £109M in 2014, but a further 11KT of berries, worth £59M, are imported each year. A 20% increase in the 14KT of fruit produced p.a. in the UK could be expected to reduce imports by 2.8KT, and raise the value of the UK industry by £15.7M p.a.. However, improved on- farm management of water and fertiliser inputs is needed t...

Hand operated community water pumps in rural areas of the Global South fail and can remain out of service for significant periods of time causing hardship for local communities. This represents a wasted investment in improved water supply by the organisations funding the systems. Pump operability is monitored sporadically, if at all, dependent on the type...

To develop low cost data loggers for monitoring water projects in developing regions, to ensure their continued success in providing clean drinking water.

We propose to deliver a mutliplex mass MEMS based sensor (MultiMEMS) for the simultaneous detection of phosphate and nitrate in agricultural environments. MultiMEMS delivers a step-change capability to the agri-food supply chain to maximise crop production, profitability and minimise the negative impacts of modern crop production methods. By reducing the ...

‘Sewerage network failure’ caused by blockages is known as a Flooding Other Causes (FOC) as it is triggered by something other than hydraulic overload of the sewerage system in the normal state. Property damage and clean-up can be £10k per property; in 2012 a Water Sewerage Company (WSC) which cannot be disclosed due to current negotiations with OFWAT had...