Sea.Mare

The SEA.MARE project, Advanced Electronic Solutions for Environmental, Radiative and Energy Measurements, addresses the need for high-performance measurement instruments necessary for the progression of physics from the theoretical to the experimental level and ultimately to industrial application.

These instruments serve as a bridge between theory and practice, allowing scientific hypotheses to be tested, new phenomena to be explored, and advanced technologies to be developed.

However, they are, in most cases, very expensive instruments, difficult to obtain in the necessary configurations for specific measurement setups and, often, complex to use.

The aim of the SeaMare project is to make instruments such as single-photon-sensitive spectrometers and particle detectors for dosimetry available, which will be designed using high-precision measurement components and management and control systems customized according to the needs of the Southern Laboratories of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, the client of the entire initiative.

The main technological challenge will be to integrate high-precision systems with specially designed “slow control” and “remote monitoring” systems based on “low cost” components that are easily available on the market.

The applications of the measurement systems, in line with the theme of the SAMOTHRACE project (“advanced solution for energy production and environmental pollution”), under which the SeaMare project is grafted, will be oriented to “acquisition and processing of data from innovative radiation sensors with remote management” and to “data collection and analysis for water quality monitoring”.