You can’t see your fingers in New Delhi, India, entering the winter smog: some companies have launched “anti-smog helmets”
According to recent news, according to the report of the Central Pollution Control Board of India, New Delhi will become the city with the most serious air pollution in India in 2022. According to the data,The annual average concentration of PM2.5 in New Delhi in 2022 will be 99.7 micrograms per cubic metermore than double the safe upper limit of 40 micrograms per cubic meter set by the country.
Since the beginning of winter, the air quality in New Delhi has begun to drop sharply.On November 3, New Delhi’s air quality index exceeded 400, reaching the “serious” level of India’s air pollution standards.For more than two months since then, New Delhi’s air quality index has remained at around 300 to 400, and exceeded 600 when it was the worst.
Indian media reported that severe air pollution often lasts throughout the winter. The air pollution in New Delhi and other cities not only causes a large number of citizens to suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases, but also causes many deaths every year.
In addition, the 10 cities with the worst air pollution in India in 2022 also include Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Patna, Muzaffarpur, Noida, etc. Most of these cities are concentrated in the Ganges plain .
Due to the severe smog, the Indian market has spawned the research and development of various anti-smog equipment. In the same period last year,An Indian company Shellios Technolabs has developed an anti-smog helmet。
The helmet comes with replaceable filters and a battery-operated fan that runs for six hours and can be recharged via a microUSB slot, which has been measured to block 80% of smog pollutants.
However, due to cost constraints, this helmet is not cheap.Each is priced at 4,500 rupees (about 371 yuan), four times the price of ordinary helmetsand because the helmet weighs about 1.5 kilograms, it is very inconvenient to use and it is difficult to promote it.
