IDG Contributor Network: How IoT with bio-mimicry reduces indoor air pollution
You may be better off not inhaling—especially when you consider all the airborne pollutants indoors.
The EPA estimates that there are over 65,000 chemicals releasing pollutants into the air that are often too small for regular air filters to catch. Mold, flame retardants on carpets, and vapors from synthetic materials are just some of the sources of this type of pollution. For people with breathing difficulties, children, and the elderly, the impact is especially hazardous.
Biome's solution is based on bio-mimicry: "innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies.The goal is to create products, processes, and policies—new ways of living—that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul. The core idea is that nature has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with. Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers."
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here