Monthly Archives: December 2016

A.U.G Signals Ltd (AUG) team made a visit to Manila (Philippines) in December, 2016 to demonstrate AUG’s latest innovations in Environmental Monitoring.

On Dec 15, 2016, Dr. George Lampropoulos, President & CEO, of A.U.G. Signals Ltd (AUG) met Ms. Gina Lopez – Secretary (i.e. Minister) of Philippines’ Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and discussed about the environmental monitoring in Philippines.

Figure 1: Dr. George Lampropoulos, President & CEO of AUG (left) with Ms. Gina Lopez, Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of Philippines (right) on Dec. 15, 2016.

On Dec 16, 2016, AUG team had a meeting with eleven delegates from the DENR. These delegates from DENR included Ms. Suky Lim- Associate to the Secretary and Mr. Gilbert Gonzales- Director, Environment Management Bureau. This meeting was chaired by Professor Marlo Mendoza- Undersecretary (i.e. Deputy Minister) for Policy and Planning of DENR.

Figure 2: Top bureaucrats of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of Philippines discussing intelligent online water and air quality monitoring technologies with a team of AUG. In the photo, Dr. Lampropoulos (top left) is delivering the presentation.

AUG successfully presented its innovative products for intelligent online water and real-time ambient air quality monitoring– TRITON Intelligent Water Surveillance and AirSENCE respectively. AUG and DENR had a valuable discussion about the technology capability and the benefits it can bring to the Philippines. AUG looks forward to expanding its market reach through a collaborative partnership with Philippines, enabling healthier life, safe drinking water and environment conservation & sustainability.

A.U.G. Signals in Greece is participating in the WaterSpy project along with eight other consortium across Europe. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731778. The project is an initiative of the Photonics Public Private Partnership (www.photonics21.org).

Pervasive and on-line water quality monitoring data is critical for detecting environmental pollution and reacting in the best possible way to avoid human health hazards. However, it’s not easy to gather such data, at least not for all contaminants. Currently, water utilities rely heavily on frequent sampling and laboratory analysis in order to acquire this information. For the situation to be improved, portable and high-performance devices for pervasive water quality monitoring are required. Such devices should expand current limitations in detecting contaminants, transcending today’s paradigms, and bridging different technologies available, allowing on-line monitoring of possible contaminants.

WaterSpy addresses this challenge by developing water quality analysis photonics technology suitable for inline, field measurements. WaterSpy technology will be integrated, for validation purposes, to a commercially successful water quality monitoring platform, in the form of a portable device add-on. WaterSpy will be used in the field for the analysis of critical points of water distribution networks. This will be demonstrated in two different demo sites in Italy.