CES 2020 Smell Tech Highlights
A roundup of smell tech at CES2020. New technologies are enabling novel scent experiences, allowing us to identify odors and filter our air. Take a look!
SCENT EXPERIENCES
Artiris Parfum, Paris: Compoz
A real-time high-quality scent mixer and player. A small box with a fan attached to it can hold up to five single-ingredient oils. The scent output and intensity can be controlled through an app and experienced in real-time. One the desired scent is created; a timer can be set to continuously diffuse this specific creation. The oils are natural and single-origin, i.e. Rose oil from Bulgaria.
Moodify, Tel Aviv
A collection of scents based on over 10 years of research on chemo-signals at the Neurobiology department in Weizmann Institute of Science. The scents are safe, non-intrusive signals that have an immediate impact on our emotional and physiological condition, for example, by blocking bad odors, decreasing stress or jolting us awake.
White: Eliminates the perception of malodor
Blue: Optimizes stress levels
Green: Increases alertness
Red: enables emergency awakening (wakes someone up)
P&G, Cincinnati: Airia
A single cartridge scent device that uses technology borrowed from ink-jet printers. It releases micro-droplets of scent that travel along indoor environments natural airflow to create an even and consistent scent experience. The app allows for control of the scent intensity, duration and a way to set scenting schedules for timed release.
Paxlabs, San Francisco: Pax
From the makers of Juul. A pocket-sized cannabis vaporizer that includes a PodID feature that allows users to read about the content of the oil on each pod including strain information, potency, flavor profiles, producer information and even state-regulated test results.
The smart vape offers specific expert suggested temperatures for each strain, precise degree control and way of managing and customizing vapor and flavor output and intelligence that adjusts vapor delivery based on the strength of one's pull to offer a consistent sensory experience.
ENOSE TECH
Stratuscent, Montreal
The technology combines NASA-patented nanocomposite sensing technology and in-house created proprietary machine learning algorithms that run in the cloud. They are a vertical AI startup and their solution is able to offer smaller, less costly and more energy-efficient chemical sensors.
Stratuscent showcased two devices, one wall-mountable, the other handheld, both able to detect odors in seconds. Their sensor technology both simple chemicals and complex everyday scents through the cross-sensitivity of its array of chemical receptors and leverages AI to deliver robustness in the real-world with varying temperatures, humidity, and background scents.
Aryballe, Grenoble
A silicon photonics biosensor captures odors in seconds. Once captured, Aryballe’s software then interprets the smells based on a database of previously collected and analyzed odors.
The new high-volume, low-cost universal odor sensor is capable of detecting any odor in near real-time. With the same sensitivity as Aryballe’s NeOse Pro that launched at CES in 2018, the new sensor is smaller than a paperclip in size, more durable, and can be easily integrated into existing smart sensor networks. It is vibration resistant and less sensitive to outside influences than previous versions.
P&G Charmin, Cincinnati: SmellSense
A conceptual prototype for a critical room in the home that has seen little innovation — the bathroom. Smellsense is a smell monitoring system that allows users to plan ahead and check how the bathroom smells without having to experience it. It’s calibrated to detect carbon dioxide and notifies via a GO/NO GO display on the status of the stench.
AerNos, San Diego
The technology is based on nanomaterials created with multi-layer hybrid nanostructures. A specific combination of the hybrid nanomaterial structures allows the selectivity and sensitivity of gases to the parts-per-billion (ppb). Gases include Ozone, Formaldehyde, Ammonia, NO2, TVOCs and others at extremely low single-digit ppb levels allowing for detection in a multi-gas environment with cross contaminant gases that typically generate false readings in other sensors.
AerNos developed products that demonstrate their gas sensing capabilities, including an embeddable product AerIoT, standalone air quality monitor SmartAer and wearable AerBand.
AIR FILTERING
Aō Air, Brooklyn: Atmōs
A personal air filter mask that sits over your nose and mouth, providing a bubble of clean, filtered air for you to breathe. It glows white when everything is working properly, and the light turns red when it’s time to change the filters. Atmōs draws in air from near your ears, passes it through a series of nano-fiber filters, and uses small fans to creates a pocket of clean air over your face.
Independently validated to be between 5x and 50x better than the leading masks tested against. The nanofiltration system is said to clean 98% of PM2.5.
Dadam Micro, Seongnam Korea: puripot airLamp
A lamp air purifier that applies purifying technologies to household lamps: 1) a polyester-based non-woven fabric filter treated with metha-doped TiO2 photocatalyst, and 2) a market-proven visible light-based titanium dioxide photocatalyst technology together to remove harmful VOCs viruses, bacteria and fine dust
The filter has more than 50% better dust removal efficiency than the general HEPA filters. removing both particulate and gaseous pollutants in the air such as fine dust, harmful organic gases, bacteria, viruses, tobacco odor, formaldehyde, nitrogen dioxide, urine and many other hydrocarbon molecules, while performing the principal role of lighting.
OneLife GmbH, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany: PureOne
A plasma technology purifier removes smaller particles and ultra-fine dust more efficiently and sustainably than other purifiers on the market. The high filtration performance at low ventilator speed saves energy by operating on a fraction of the electricity required by other air purifiers, with no harmful ozone emissions. This innovation results in silent air purification.
And there is no need to replace the filter system. It can be rinsed or run through a dishwasher and reused. WOW.
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