The design and assembly of the equipment making up the LESSDRONE were completed. The automatic positioning of the hull and the analysis instrumentation are connected through a specific software that manages the different sampling phases. The position of the drone is managed by a Global Positioning System (GPS) that allows to identify the points to be monitored directly on the map.
The hull consists in 6 independent inflatable sections that allow the floatation of the frame on which the control boxes and monitoring equipment are anchored. Under the frame and within the area delimited by the inflatable sections, the collection hood of the offgas was placed for the measurement of the incoming flow.

The slides of the Lesswatt project webinar entitled “N2O risk assessment” held on March 31, 2021 are available online and can be downloaded from the Download section of this website.

In March 2021, the first measurement campaign planned at Roma est WRRF was completed. The campaign, which was intended to measure oxygen transfer and the production of greenhouse gases produced

Newsletter n.5 is now available on-line and can be downloaded from the section Download/Newsletter.

In September and October 2020, the measurement campaigns planned at Tillburg and Eindhoven WRRFs (The Netherlands) were completed.

A description of the LESSWATT project was published on 21 December 2020 on SCENARI, the commercial supplement of the “Il sole 24 ORE” economic newspaper . The article published in