Infrastructure 4.0

Water ducts, highways, bullet trains, what’s next?

Wearable infrastructure is a real-time big data-enabled network of wearable devices and objects that facilitates urban interactions and provides crowd-sourced intelligence to citizens, organizations, and governments.

The new generation of infrastructure will combine bottom-up data collection and top-down urban governance to address socio-environmental challenges by infusing intelligence into everyday objects and natural interfaces.

Bottom-up insights, Top-down execution

The Internet of Breaths (IoB) is a two-fold system consisting of smart air masks and a mobile app for public users, and a real-time IoT environmental sensing network for the government. It aims to create a collaborative approach with a decentralized feedback mechanism, combining bottom-up data collection and top-down environmental management to combat extreme air conditions and to foster a community that pays adequate attention to air pollution and public health.

The smart air mask is a detection, protection, and communication interface for public users to measure ambient air conditions. The real-time IoB network is formed by mask sensor nodes with air quality and GPS location information transmitting to the cloud. The air condition is then visualized on a digital map accessible to public users through the mobile app and a management interface accessible to the government to take strategic combating approaches.