COST Action TD1105 on New Sensing Technologies for Air-Pollution Control and Environmental Sustainability: Overview in Europe and New Trends

摘要

This international networking, coordinated by ENEA (Italy), includes over 75 big institutions from 27 COST countries (EU zone: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom) and 5 non-COST countries (extra-Europe: Australia, Canada, China, Russia, United States) to create a S&T critical mass in the environmental issues. This COST Action [1, 2] (see logo in Fig. 1) focuses on a new detection paradigm based on sensing technologies at low cost for air-quality control (AQC) and sets up an interdisciplinary top-level coordinated network to define innovative approaches in sensor nanomaterials, gas sensors, devices, wireless sensor systems, distributed computing, methods, models, standards, and protocols for environmental sustainability within the European Research Area (ERA).