Wireless Cleantech - multi-technological know-how

Future products, through intelligent integration of different technologies, provide solutions to increasingly complex needs. Oulu's strong ICT expertise is also visible in the multi-technological measurement, instrumentation, regulation, and telecommunications know-how of Cleantech applications. For example, wireless technology is utilized in remote control of wind power plants and catalytic VOC incineration plants, in mobile phone control of waterworks, and to improve the logistics of waste management. The significance of these areas will continue to increase in the future. One of the newest areas of research is printed intelligence, for which business applications are also being sought.

Wireless life cycle

In the mobile world the power supplies of wireless products can be recharged, but before long they reach the end of their life cycle and become hazardous waste. Top know-how from Oulu is also used to recycle them in an efficient and environmentally friendly manner so that their valuable components can be reused. Oulu is a true city of wireless communications!

Remote controlling

Slatek delivers electrical, instrumentation, and automation systems covering the entire life cycle of utility water to water supply and sewerage plants. A new product is Slatek-RMC, a remote control system that works on a mobile phone.

Measurement and monitoring

High-quality measurement systems for real-time monitoring of water quantity and quality in demanding field conditions are under development. Standard solutions are not applicable in the scattered-load-type circumstances of peat production, agriculture and forestry, and waste management, for example. EHP-Tekniikka takes care of the customer's entire measurement process, from device design, measurement station delivery and maintenance to data reporting.

Analytics

Due to their polymorphism, bottom animals in bodies of water are considered good indicators of the condition of the water. Morphological identification of bottom animals is demanding and time-consuming. Routine, reliable species identification is achieved with a method based on DNA sequences. Ositum provides DNA-based bottom animal identification service for the environmental analysis market.

Intelligent waste container

In a traditional waste management system, produced waste is sorted at the place of origin, and the waste containers are emptied into a collection unit from which the waste is emptied and transported to a waste processing plant on a regular schedule. Then this waste management is invoiced and reported.

A new intelligent RFID (Radio frequency identification) -based method enhances and optimizes waste management logistics and adds real-time monitoring and registering of waste information. This decreases local traffic, reduces the amount of waste produced, and improves sorting, thereby bringing cost savings. The idea of the service is to gather precise, true information on waste flows produced by the organization by identifying waste containers. Of interest from the standpoint of developing waste management is what kind and how much waste is produced, in which of the company's operating and collection points waste is produced, how full the containers are, and who empties the waste containers and how often. The gathered information is automatically stored in a database, where it is available for analysis in an easily comparable, clear form that can be appended to environmental reports.

The system has been brought to the market by Encore Ympäristöpalvelu.