Filligent's Intelligent Filtration Technology is very different from the standard method of filtration, often called 'mechanical filtration'
Mechanical Filtration
Imagine you are using a standard metal sieve to sift sand-sized iron filings from a box of sand and pebbles. The sieve will trap only those particles larger than size of its holes. Pebbles and some large particles of sand will be captured, but everything else, including the iron filings will flow through. If one makes the holes too small, then nothing will pass through - everything will be captured indiscriminately. There is no intelligence to the selection.
This is the principle by which surgical and other face masks work, including cigarette filters. They merely trap particles based on their size. But what if the dangerous particle is smaller than the holes in the sieve? Or the same size as other particles that need to flow through (such as oxygen)? Make the holes too small, and oxygen intake is compromised and the person cannot breathe. Worse still, what if the particles you are trapping are alive and contagious (such as viruses or bacteria). If they collect in concentrated form in the sieve, they will pose an even greater hazard to humans - becoming an incubator and potent point of further dissemination.
Intelligent Filtration
Now imagine that the metal sieve has larger holes, but is heavily magnetized. The sand and pebbles pass through, but most of the iron filings are captured on the metal mesh. This is the basis of Filligent's Intelligent Filtration Technologies, except that we operate on a molecular level and we use specially tailored compounds to attract and trap the offending pathogen, while letting everything else flow through (such as oxygen).
For biological pathogens(such as viruses and bacteria), we take the filtration process one step further by killing them to ensure they cannot cause further harm to humans. For chemical pollutants, we 'bolt' them onto the 'mesh' so that they can never pass through the filter.
This conceptual animated sequence illustrates the difference between mechanical and intelligent filtration. In it, we follow the path of a targeted pathogen as it flows through a standard filter and then, by contrast, through a Filligent-enabled filter.
