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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

A COTS-Based Portable System to Conduct Accurate Substance Concentration Measurements.

Juan Aznar-Poveda, Jose Antonio Lopez-Pastor, Antonio-Javier Garcia-Sanchez, Joan Garcia-Haro, Toribio Fernández Otero

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Juan Aznar-PovedaDepartment of Information and Communication Technologies (TIC), Technical University of Cartagena, ETSIT, Campus Muralla del Mar, E-30202 Cartagena, Spain. juan.aznarp@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-0879-6651
Jose Antonio Lopez-PastorDepartment of Information and Communication Technologies (TIC), Technical University of Cartagena, ETSIT, Campus Muralla del Mar, E-30202 Cartagena, Spain. joseantonio.lopez@upct.es.
Antonio-Javier Garcia-SanchezDepartment of Information and Communication Technologies (TIC), Technical University of Cartagena, ETSIT, Campus Muralla del Mar, E-30202 Cartagena, Spain. antoniojavier.garcia@upct.es.
Joan Garcia-HaroDepartment of Information and Communication Technologies (TIC), Technical University of Cartagena, ETSIT, Campus Muralla del Mar, E-30202 Cartagena, Spain. joang.haro@upct.es.
Toribio Fernández OteroCenter for Electrochemistry and Intelligent Materials (CEMI), Technical University of Cartagena, ETSII, Campus Alfonso XIII, E-30203 Cartagena, Spain. toribio.fotero@upct.es.ORCID 0000-0002-8517-1428

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditionally, electrochemical procedures aimed at determining substance concentrations have required a costly and cumbersome laboratory environment. Specialized equipment and personnel obtain precise results under complex and time-consuming settings. Innovative electrochemical-based sensors are emerging to alleviate this difficulty. However, they are generally scarce, proprietary hardware and/or software, and focused only on measuring a restricted range of substances. In this paper, we propose a portable, flexible, low-cost system, built from commercial off-the-shelf components and easily controlled, using open-source software. The system is completed with a wireless module, which enables the transmission of measurements to a remote database for their later processing. A well-known PGSTAT100 Autolab device is employed to validate the effectiveness of our proposal. To this end, we select ascorbic acid as the substance under consideration, evaluating the reliability figure and obtaining the calibration curves for both platforms. The final outcomes are shown to be feasible, accurate, and repeatable.

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cyclic voltammetrypotentiostatscreen-printed electrode

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PMID29439424
PMCPMC5855506

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