Forbes January 13, 2022
Nearly two years into the global Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, it was only a matter of time before astute innovators took face mask technology to the next level.
Expert engineers and academics collaborating between Northwestern University, Georgia Institute of Technology, UCLA and other participating labs worked on this exact concept and have created “FaceBit”— a new, ground-breaking platform to transform traditional face masks into “smart masks.”
The idea of making any device or item “smart” refers to the concept of digitizing it in a useful manner— transforming it into an adaptive, often metric-oriented or data driven product that provides more value to the user.
FaceBit is attempting to work on this very idea. The concept was originally published in the Proceedings...