Two experimental sensor systems are assessing the water quality of two Portuguese beaches at a microbiological level, in an international project responsible for monitoring the River Seine tributaries during the Paris Olympics and the Seine itself before the games began.
The experiment, coordinated in Portugal by the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS) at the University of Porto, aims to test not only the technology's ability to analyze the presence of bacteria accurately but also its ability to analyze the presence of the bacteria Escherichia coli in real-time, but also, based on this information, the technology's ability to predict the evolution of the presence of these bacteria in the following hours, as is done in meteorology.
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