BioAge will be involved in WP6 for the integration activity and the designing,
realization, testing and characterization of the electronics needed to achieve the
prototypes of the three test vehicles. The detailed description of the BioAge activities
are the followings:
POWER SUPPLY development for each test vehicle.
ADC CONVERSION STAGES development for each test vehicle.
FIRMWARE development that will be used to program the microcontrollers.
DATA BUS development to connect the prototypes to a PC.
INTEGRATION of all the previous subsystems and of the transducers.
3D MECHANICAL development of auxiliary systems, if they are needed.
BioAge is an Italian technological SME that develops and produces measurement
instruments based on sensors and biosensors and real time monitoring systems. The
company develops several kinds of transducers. The BioAge main technologies are
nano-gravimetric, capacitive and infrasonic wave systems. BioAge produces highly
accurate quartz crystal microbalances (QCM) systems, developed for piezoelectric
gravimetry in the ng-pg range, such instruments are commonly used by research
centres and universities, the application fields is extremely large and thanks to their
extreme accuracy and sensitivity these instruments are employed in the nanotechnology
basic research too. The BioAge main product is QCM Eureka, this was the
first QCM, at word-wide level, self powered only by the PC USB port. BioAge designs,
produces and installs infrasonic monitoring systems, used to monitor in real time the
volcanic activity, in Italy the Italian Civil Defence uses our systems to monitor the
explosive activity of Etna volcano (Etna is the bigger active European volcano). BioAge
has designed and realized a real-time marine monitoring system that has been
installed near the Stromboli island (it is a volcanic island), this system is used by the
Italian Civil Defence as tsunami real time early warning alarm. The scientific research
is one of the main interest of BioAge that is involved in EC FP7 research projects.
BioAge is skilled in the electronic circuit research, design and development, in the
demonstrators realization and in the research.
STEFANO SINOPOLI Dr. Ing. Electronic Engineering, University La Sapienza of Rome. He
worked at :
- "Texas Instruments" in Avezzano, where was involved in plasma etching process
- "Polo Nazionale Bioelettronica" in Marciana Marina (LI), in satellite multi-spectral images
- "Technobiochip scarl" in Marciana (LI), where was responsible of engineering team
- "Centro di Eccellenza Optronica" in Florence, where was responsible of engineering team
- "BioAge", currently he is responsible of designing of new Hi-Tec instruments and micro systems
He was the responsible of the development of various innovative instruments and
devices like: real time infrasonic monitoring systems, real time tsunami early warning
alarm system, quartz micro balance measurement instruments, capacitive sensors,
LVDT measurement systems. He has developed a very innovative capacitive system
that is employed in proteomics and genomics and that has been patented in Italy and
in Europe, and that has won a prestigious prize:
- Italian Patent N° RM2001A000774, 28/12/2001, Cocco M., Pighini M., Sinopoli S.
(2001).
- European Patent Extension in 20/12/2002, Patent n° 02806391.5 - 2204 - IT0200818.
- In 3/5/2004 this patent has won the "OSCAR MASI 2003 PRIZE" from AIRI board
(Italian
Association for Industrial Research) as the best industrial innovation of the year.
