A smart trap station solution allows to remotely count and identify disease-carrying mosquitoes

IRIDEON S.L. is a Spanish company that provides technical consultancy services in the field of information and communications technologies and sensor systems. They have developed SENSCAPE®, a disruptive, modular, standards-based framework for the development of fast time-to-market Internet of Things solutions.

 

In 2016 they started working together with the German company Biogents and the Technological Education Institute of Crete in the collaborative project REMOSIS to develop a novel smart trap station as an Internet of Things surveillance solution to remotely count and identify the species of disease-carrying mosquitoes. REMOSIS attract insects with great efficiency, and perform stand-alone field monitoring, by automatically counting insects, identifying species, and transmitting the data wirelessly. This reduces inspection costs by 80% improving surveillance programmes, which will prevent unnoticed disease outbreaks, and will save lives. This project was funded by the H2020-FTIPilot-2015-1 call.

 

 

Some months before the end of the project and after having achieved very promising results that could end in a commercial product, the company realised that they needed advice on the strategy protection of the intellectual property generated in the project. They got in touch with the Enterprise Europe Network advisers from ACCIÓ for help as they had offered support in numerous occasions before, through their partnering services.

 

The support of the Enterprise Europe Network helped the company to find the best strategy to protect the intellectual property of the project REMOSIS. This has significantly contributed to improve Irideon’s positioning on the market and has enabled the current cooperation with Biogents to bring the new smart traps for mosquitoes to the market.

 

Irideon is very happy to have successfully finished one of the first projects funded in the pilot phase of the H2020 Fast Track to Innovation programme. Currently, the two companies continue cooperating in the commercialisation phase of new smart trap stations for counting and identification of species of disease-carrying mosquitoes. It is expected an improvement of the sustainable and efficient control of disease-carrying mosquitoes that will contribute to prevent diseases like Dengue or Zika. Sales of €5,2 million in 5 years are expected.