New personal air pollution sensor wins $100K award
NIH, ONC, and EPA name winner of health and technology challenge
You’ll soon be able to calculate how much particulate matter you’re inhaling with the Conscious Clothing system, a wearable breathing analysis tool that uses groove strips, stretchy, conductive strips of knitted silver material wrapped around the ribcage, to measure breath volume, and collects and transmits data in real time, via Bluetooth, to any Bluetooth-capable device.
The system is the winner of a My Air, My Health Challenge conducted by by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The announcement was made recently at Health Datapalooza by the National Institutes of Health, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).