Special Issue "Empowering Future Generation of Water Industry through Microbiological Sensors"

Dear Colleagues,

The world population has grown over the last two decades due to medical advances that have reduced the average mortality rate while increasing the birth rate of humans. Increased population places a strain on food, water, and air resources. Modern technology offers alternate answers to every challenge without sacrificing quality. Water is one of the most abundant natural resources. However, it is not in a consumable state. Many governmental and private groups invest vast sums of money to inrifying ocean saltwater, which has its own set of drawbacks. As a result, it is critical to efficiently manage water supplies using cutting-edge technology and microbiological sensors.

Microbial sensors are the analytic devices that use the transducers that can biologically integrate with the microorganisms and generate the signal that corresponds to the concentration of microbes. The water industry highly prefers those sensors to provide better water quality services to their customers. These industries provide drinking water and manage water for residential, commercial and industrial sectors. The water industries provide drinking water services to their customers who require a constant monitoring system to maintain the water quality. It is difficult to manually monitor such a huge water resource and provide consistency in services. The water industry employs various enzyme-based sensors, tissue-based sensors, Immuno, and piezoelectric sensors capable of identifying the microbial substances and other living cells in the water resources. All living organisms, including microbes, can produce adenosine triphosphate. The enzyme-based sensor detects these enzymes in the water resource to measure the concentration of microbes. The microbial sensor has been designed to send the alert data or trigger the alarms if the microbial concentration reaches a certain level. The automatic system implemented in the water industry can activate the purifying system to remove the pathogens and microbes present in the water. It also helps to measure the growth rate of microbes in water resources to find the abnormal growth rate due to any extinct species in water.  As the water industries also cover the wastewater, including the sewage system, monitoring both pipelines is needed to ensure there is no leakage between them. Some water industries use these microbial sensors to identify the nature of microbes using various electrochemical-based biosensors to redirect the wastewater to agriculture or irrigation purposes. There are a few challenges associated while implementing this in real-time applications. It is difficult to identify the faulty sensor once it is implemented. Which requires weekly or monthly services to maintain the sensor quality. The sensor should operate at low power to produce a stable output by using the energy from the battery during a power cut. To screen a larger area, many sensors are required, increasing the maintenance cost. Most of the sensors are designed to identify specific microbes or microbes with different size ranges, which is considered sensor limitations.

This editorial investigates the use of microbiological sensors to empower the water sector for the next generation and the future advantages and present limits. This motivates sensor designers and water industrialists to delve deeply into the existing constraints and submit research papers to solve them.

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• Microbial sensor-based data mining and mathematical analysis of growth rate of microbes and preventing water contamination.

Dr. Dilbag Singh
Prof. Dr. Robertas Damaševičius
Dr. Vijay Kumar
Guest Editors

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