The laboratory is developing a technology demonstrator (TD) for the measurement of the real transpiration of a vegetated surface.

The TD, named ATMOSMART, is under a national industrial patent and was submitted for an international patent in the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) contest.

ATMOSMART is an advanced modification of the atmometer (Livingston, 1915) and implements nanotechnologies to reproduce the canopy-atmosphere water vapour exchange when soil water deficit conditions occur.