Conscious Clothing system, a breathing analysis tool, will
soon be available for personal use, giving consumers the chance to calculate
how much particulate matter they are inhaling. The system uses conductive groove
strips made of a stretchy knitted material that wrap around the ribcage to
measure breath volume. The system collects and transmits data via Bluetooth to
any Bluetooth-capable device.
The system recently won the My Air, My Health Challenge
conducted by EPA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.