LAS VEGAS, Nev. – By Kim Yoon-mi / Korea Biomedical Review correspondent - The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 showcased state-of-the-art digital health technologies developed rapidly due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
At the CES 2022 held in Las Vegas Convention Center from Wednesday to Friday, digital health companies promoted various products, including a device that detects and warns about the Covid-19 virus and a disinfection beam on the ceiling track high-risk persons with cough and fever.
Opteev, a U.S. biosensor developer, introduced a series of indoor virus scanners. Looking like a small air purifier, the product detects the Covid-19 virus in the room. The company also plans to launch a personal airborne virus detector.
Opteev claimed that its indoor virus scanner offered 100 percent accuracy. Still, the National Institutes of Health study was conducted in an aerosolized environment.
A French company, LOD Protect, showcased a product, called LOD’AIR, that disinfects viruses in the air through light 99 percent. LOD’AIR, which combines LED lighting and ultraviolet-c (UV-C), sucks up the surrounding air and destroys viruses with UV-C.
Shyld, a U.S. firm, developed AirSani, using UV-C to disinfect the air. Installed at the ceiling, AirSani uses machine learning and smart sensors to monitor any virus spread. If it captures a person with symptoms like cough and fever, it shoots a UV-C beam to disinfect the surrounding area.
Airxôm, a French health company, boasted a face mask that filters viruses and bacteria. The mask contains ultraviolet rays and copper/silver catalysts to protect people from pollutants, viruses, and bacteria 99.94 percent, the company said.
Humetrix, a U.S. company, introduced an AI-powered cloud platform, Enterprise Platform, to inform areas with many high-risk groups of Covid-19 and analyze health data.
The pandemic also prompted people to develop a technology to identify people even when wearing masks.
A kiosk product, developed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), checks for fever and recognizes faces with 99 percent accuracy even while wearing a mask regardless of the color or type.
The kiosk displays people who are not wearing a mask or who have fever symptoms in red.
KIST also introduced a dog face recognition system.
A Korean company, Real Time Medi Check, exhibited RTMC-V, a real-time vaccine information collector. The platform builds a database by recognizing all barcodes and QR codes in existing vaccine products, predicting demand for each vaccine. It can also generate a QR code for each vaccine recipient to provide information such as the time of vaccination and the type of vaccine.
Vision Semicon, a Korean plasma equipment maker, displayed a virus-free, unmanned café system that enables 24-hour operation, anti-virus table settings, and delivery by robots to the customer’s seat.