La health for Apple it is being a fundamental pillar for users. Thanks to devices such as the Apple Watch or all the studies that are being carried out thanks to the integration of development kits such as HealthKit are allowing improve users' health or at least try.
The US Patent and Trademark Office has released a number of Big Apple patents. In one of them we can see a environmental and toxic gas sensor that could be introduced in the future in the iPhone to be able to warn of high concentrations of a certain gas or even toxic gases such as carbon monoxide. The sensor may be included in other HomeKit-compatible devices.
The iPhone of the future could save us from high concentrations of CO
Currently there are toxic gas sensors such as carbon monoxide that can be placed in the rooms of our houses. However, few are the sensors that can be carried wirelessly or away from a power source that fulfills the functions of a good gas detector.
La US Patent and Trademark Office has published some of the patents registered by Apple. In one of them, the company records a environmental and toxic gas sensor which would be included in the category of "smart homes" and "Internet of things". Most important of all, it has also been included under the category of 'health monitoring', which would allow them to introduce this technology into their health related devices like the Apple Watch or even the iPhone itself.
A grandes rasgos, la tecnología patentada por Apple se basa en un dispositivo cuya base es de silicio con unos electrodos depositados sobre el sustrato, por encima, una capa de detección de gas que cubre los electrodos y, finalmente, una capa adsorbente que es capaz de filtrar determinados componentes de una mezcla de gases. Es decir, dejarían pasar ciertos gases (en este caso, los tóxicos) y avisaría mediante una alerta que se están elevando las concentraciones de dicho gas.
It is not determined how the inclusion of this device within an iPhone would be, but they do point to the adsorbent layer could be included within the openings to the outside that the iPhone has, so that gases would come into contact with the system through the Lightning connector and even the slight openings of the volume control buttons. It's a patent somewhat complex that we will not know if Apple will use it until it wants / can include it in any of its devices.