Embedded Hardware Platform

 A team of engineers from Northwestern University (NWU), led by Dr. Josiah Hester, have developed a new sensor-based hardware platform for face masks.This  "FaceBit" is a lightweight, quarter-sized sensing platform that can turn any facemask into a smart monitoring device.





The developed hardware platform can sense users' real-time respiration rate, heart rate, mask wear time, and misfitting of the mask. All this data is transmitted to a smartphone app that includes an analytics dashboard.

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