Shake to test, twist to filter: A Smart Bottle that helps you to get rid of contaminants
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Shake to test, twist to filter: A Smart Bottle that helps you to get rid of contaminants
About this project
Ecomo Bottle aims to bring clean water to everyone and minimize the usage of plastic bottles. In addition, you may choose to contribute to our water quality data map (without revealing any privacy) and become part of the effort to protect public health and the environment.
Ecomo Bottle saves approximately 228 plastic disposable water bottles within 3 months.
Test out the contaminants in your water simply with a shake.
The bottle’s 3-in-1 filtration system can remove most major contaminants, such as pesticides, petrochemical products, bacteria, and most heavy metals.
Drink water with peace-in-mind, anywhere, anytime.
A wearable activity tracker that computes your hydration needs, tracks your intake and alerts you about bad water quality.
The Ecomo Bottle is also compatible with Apple Watch and FitBit.
- Utility Patent on Built-in water quality analyzing system
- Utility Patent on High-performance 3-in-1 filtration system
- Design Patent on water safety alerts and water intake notifications
- Design Patent on bottle design
With Ecomo Bottle, you are able to monitor:
The sensing unit in action caught on videos:
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With drinking water samples collected across the globe, the consistency and accuracy of each filtration unit has been rigorously tested.
Ecomo 3-in-1 filtration system removes most major contaminants, complete with a filter replacement notification when a new filter is needed.
1 of 3: Activated Carbon Filter to remove chlorine, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and petrochemical products.
Ecomo Bottle uses the activated carbon fiber as the carbon filter material, which has been developed with advanced technology, providing an extremely high adsorption speed compared to regular powdered or granular activated carbon due to its massive Micro Pores with absorption function in the surface of fibers.
2 of 3: Ion Exchange Filter to remove heavy metals such as lead, mercury, copper and cadmium.
Ecomo Bottle uses an Ion Exchange Fiber that has twice the capacity of the current Ion Exchange Resin.
3 of 3: Nano-fiber Microfiltration Membrane, with the pore size smaller than 0.2 micro-meter, effectively filters up to 99.9% of bacteria in your water.
Here is Ecomo’s CEO Eric Li and Professor Mei Sun explaining how Ecomo’s patented testing technology compares to the traditional testing lab:
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Testing Results At a Glance:
The bottle body can be washed in a dishwasher.
Quick Recharge. One hour charge gets you one week of use!
Take it with you for traveling.
Real-time water quality alert, check history data, choose to report your data to the water quality map, get hydration alerts and be notified when to change your filter.
Take a look at this 3D rendering video:
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- Eric Li - CEO, Environmental Engineering PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
- George Chen - CTO, Electrical Engineering MS, Lamar University
- Yuan Cao - VP of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering MS, MIT
- Tianyi Chen - VP of Software Engineering, Information Networking MS, Carnegie Mellon University
- Chloe Li - Administrator of Business Development, GMU
Quotes from the Media:
"The bottle connects to a smartphone app that will allow users to report their findings, like an internet-of-things device that could actually have an impact on public health and policy." - Fast Company
"The bottle could come in handy if you're on a hike and need to filter river water, or if you have a feeling your pipes need cleaning and want to make sure the tap water's potable." - Business Insider
"Perhaps its only downside is the fact it is not available yet as the brand plans on launching through Kickstarter in October." - Digital Trends
"With real-time water contamination feedback and hydration monitor, the Ecomo smart water bottle brings cleaner water in an easier way." - ABC6
"If you are traveling or need to check the quality of your water on a regular basis you might be interested in a new water bottle which is capable of testing and providing feedback on your water quality in real time." - Geeky Gadgets
Risks and challenges
To bring you the world’s first shake-to-test and twist-to-filter smart water bottle, our Ecomo team has combined many years of experience with many sleepless nights to bring this advanced and useful device to you.
We have teamed up with the world’s leading manufacturers, who have decades of experience, to ensure smooth delivery of our products. However, components delays and unexpected shortages can occur, which might increase the lead time. If this happens, we will always inform our backers of our plan of action.
We have done thousands of tests making sure our analyzer works properly and accurately. But under different environment, such as the humidity, temperature or other environmental variables might affect the testing results. Therefore, we will partner up with a third-party testing lab to test out the product and obtain the certificates.
Learn about accountability on KickstarterFAQ
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Fill the bottle from any water source, tighten the cap and enjoy!
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The Ecomo app reminds you of the replacement. You can purchase a new filter in our app or through our website.
Expected retail pricing for our 3-in-1 filter is $9.99 for 1 cartridge and can be shipped internationally. -
No. All Ecomo filters are specifically designed to fit the Ecomo Smart Bottle. To ensure water quality, please make sure to use Ecomo authorized filterages.
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The main body and cap can be cleaned in the dishwasher.
However, to ensure safety and quality of your water analyzer and sensors, we do not recommend putting the bottom part into the dishwasher. We do recommend occasionally hand-washing this area using soap and water. -
No, you cannot.
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You could, but we certainly don’t recommend it. The filter is designed for purifying drinking water. Filtering other liquids might lower or damage the accuracy of the analyzer.
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We will be. We have tested the analyzing and filtering performance in our lab. The accuracy for TOC, TDS and Turbidity analyzer will be tested by an independent laboratory in the US. After completing the final prototype design, we will start to file NSF 42 and NSF 53 certification.
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Activated carbon filters remove some fluoride, especially from the pure-water solution. Filtering a pure water solution with a fluoride concentration of 0.8 mg F/L reduced the fluoride concentration until 210 L of the solution had been filtered. However, filtering a tap-water solution of 0.8 mg F/L reduced the fluoride concentration only until 8 L had been filtered. The concentration of absorbed fluoride in the filter at 10 L of filtration was 4.7 mg/kg activated carbon. To summarize, activated carbon can remove fluoride to some degree (40-60%), especially synthetic fluoride. We cannot claim to remove fluoride since the reduction rate is < 97%.
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Yes! It plays nice with BOTH iPhone and Android smartphones.