Water is a limited and vulnerable resource. Project Context and Objectives: Water is the most precious resource for the mankind. The HydroNet results, lessons learnt, dissemination activities and plans for the HydroNet platform exploitation will be finally illustrated. All requirements were identified by the HydroNet Consortium together with Public Institutions and potential end-users of the new platform aiming for a new approach of environmental monitoring with potentially high usability, sustainability and impact. New traditional measurements have been performed in the pilot sites (So?a/Isonzo River - Slovenia, Marano Lagoon and Gulf of Trieste - Italy, Livorno coastal area - Italy) to update the scientific environment knowledge and to furnish the needed data to the mathematical dispersion models. Enhanced mathematical models have been developed to simulate the pollutants biological/chemical processes and transport in rivers, lakes and in coastal waters. The software on the radio module enables a multihop routing and a SW library provides an easy-to-use send/receive data interface between the computerised network components. A radio module allows the data exchange between robots/buoys and the AmI platform. The AmI Framework encompasses all the software infrastructure and is responsible of interconnecting the HydroNet robots, human operators and Artificial Intelligence (AI) SW in order to manage and task the fleet, to monitor in real-time all the events occurring at a HydroNet site and to produce valuable information about the observed environment. The new miniaturised, original, custom-made SDs detect many pollutants (chromate, cadmium, mercury, dissolved petroleum hydrocarbons and oil slicks) in water sampled up to 50m depth by an electronic syringe sampling subsystem. The platform core is represented by Sensors Devices (biological, optical and electrochemical SDs) hosted inside floating robots and fixed buoys able to communicate with a remote (land) control station. The sensorised robot network collects water samples and in-situ analyse several chemical and physical parameters allowing informing in real time, continuously about the well-being status of water bodies. The platform is composed by a network of autonomous, miniaturised, sensorised, radio interconnected, water robots embedded into an Ambient Intelligence (AmI) control suite. The HydroNet Project aimed to design, develop and demonstrate a new open hardware (HW) and software (SW) technological platform to improve the monitoring of water bodies (coastal seas, rivers and lakes, possibly with shallow waters) and assess in real time their healthiness by supplying spatial and temporal information. The main purpose of this document is to present HydroNet context and objectives, to describe its main Scientific and Technological (S&T) results/foregrounds, to overview overcome obstacles and prototypes weakness, to discuss its potential impacts including the socio-economic effects and the wider societal implications, to synthesize the dissemination activities and exploitation of its results. Executive Summary: The HydroNet Project is a STREP presented within the ENVIRONMENT thematic area of EC FP7.
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