Indoors, mosquitoes are adept at evading you; once you make an attempt to swat or catch them in the air, they almost always seem to vanish. The Bzigo Iris can help with that by tracking them and displaying their whereabouts to you.
The Iris, created by Israeli startup Bzigo, initially drew interest in 2020 when it was still a prototype. After four years, the gadget is finally offered for sale. This is how it operates: The Iris uses a wide-angle camera and computer vision software to continuously scan an area for flying mosquitoes when it is positioned so that it can see the majority of the room. It can also scan in the dark thanks to its array of infrared LEDs.
The gadget’s AI brains aren’t easily fooled by other types of small flying insects, such as moths, or by airborne dust particles. Whenever a mosquito is detected, the Iris tracks its position until it lands. The device then marks that location with a Class-1 eye-safe red laser pointer while also wirelessly alerting the user via an iOS/Android app on their smartphone. If more than one mosquito is detected at once, the Iris will move its pointer back and forth between all of their locations.
Multiple Irises can be set up in multiple rooms, all of them paired to a single phone. Once a mosquito alert has been issued, it’s up to the user to actually dispatch the insect. A telescoping-handled electric swatter is included in the package for that very purpose. And yes, it would be better if the Iris did the mosquito-killing itself, although it’s hard to imagine how it would do so without leaving laser scorch marks or tiny bullet holes on the walls.
Should you want a Bzigo Iris of your own, you can order one from the company website for US$339. It’s demonstrated in the following video. With the Bzigo Iris, you can finally outsmart those pesky mosquitoes, making your indoor spaces more comfortable and mosquito-free.