Good day,
I was recently tapped by our local agriculture agency regarding the possibility of developing an Arduino project for detecting whether a swine meat (pork) is contaminated with African Swine Flu. I dived into Google but my search has somehow yield no positive response. Hopefully, someone here can help me with this problem.
Thank you.
Are you serious??
Detecting for decease is a very complex microbiologic process. There are no such arduino sensors.
It might be possible with the correct sensor. What sensor are you planning on using? Where can we get one. Post the data sheet. If you cannot find that sensor we can't be of much help.
I´m curious too.
I worked on a 'PCR lab in a box' in 2009. Me doing the electronics (simple stuff; power supply heaters, LED and opto sensors), the hard stuff was being done by a large team of bio-chemists and microbiologists.
Far from simple sensing.
Your task is to explain to them why this is not possible with Arduino.
Virus are everywhere and in and on everything. Your problem is to detect a single. specific, virus AFTER all the preparation work has been done. Do you understand the preparation work that is needed before determining that a specific virus has been found?
One version of this was used to detect Foot and Mouth, part financed by UN (if I recall correctly). My client was a specialist company in this area and as part of a multinationa organisation. It had a lot of experience in this field.
Been checking on your replies and it looks like this is outside the scope of just an Arduino microcontroller. It had been very informative. I explained the current state of technology to the project lead and he understood. We will just refocus our effort to something else that is more doable.
Thank you every one.
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