Electronic sniffer dog: Detectors sniff out different plants
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Nick, Wöll (2024)
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BNN April 2024
- Date: 2024
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Researchers at KIT have developed a highly precise electronic nose with an artificial sense of smell to distinguish odours quickly and objectively. The efficient training based on artificial intelligence (AI) makes the KIT invention by Prof Nick and Prof Wöll stand out from the crowd of comparable competitor systems. It makes the e-nose from Baden flexible and versatile. The Karlsruhe researchers are also ahead in two respects. The technology is relatively inexpensive because it uses cheap quartz oscillators, which are used in mobile phones, among other things. In contrast to the fridge-sized mass spectrometers that ‘sniff’ various substances in laboratories, the artificial dog snout is also very compact. ‘In principle, it's an add-on that can be attached to a mobile phone,’ explains materials researcher Wöll.