New Delhi: Startup IIT Ropar Company, Urban Air Laboratory, has developed smart air cleaners that use live factories to clean the air in your room.
Air purifier using plants and land as ‘smart bio filters’.
The air in the room goes to a land root zone where maximum pollutants are purified by relying on a process called phytoremediation by which plants effectively eliminate pollutants from the air.
Certain plants tested for air purification include Lily Peace, snake plants, spider plants among others.
Dubbed the ‘Ubreathe Life’, Startup claimed that effectively improve the quality of indoor air by removing particle, gas and biological contaminants while increasing oxygen levels in indoor space through certain plants, UV disinfection, and a pre-filter, charcoal, and HEPA filter (high efficiency particulate water) is installed in a wooden box.
There is a centrifugal fan that creates suction pressure in the cleaners, and releases pure air, forms on the roots, through the outlet in the direction of 360 degrees.
This product is claimed to have certain biophilic benefits, such as supporting cognitive function, physical health, and psychological well-being.
Users do not need to water plants regularly because there is a default water reservoir with a capacity of 150ml acting as a buffer for factory requirements.
The device supplies water to the root every time it is too dry.
This technology was developed by Indian Institute of Technology Scientists, Ropar and Kanpur and the Faculty of Management Study of the University of Delhi.
This air purifier can be used in indoor spaces such as hospitals, schools, offices and homes.