Arizona Tribune - Ainos, MacKay Memorial Hospital and Topco Scientific Partner to Advance Smell AI Deployment in High-Risk Hospital Environments

HOUSTON, TX / ACCESS Newswire / April 8, 2026 / Ainos, Inc. (NASDAQ:AIMD)(NASDAQ:AIMDW) today announced a partnership with MacKay Memorial Hospital and Topco Scientific Co., Ltd. to deploy its AI Nose technology across high-risk hospital environments. The collaboration aims to expand Ainos' Smell AI platform from industrial and environmental safety into healthcare infrastructure, marking a key step in its commercialization roadmap.

Focused Deployment Across Four Core High-Risk Hospital Environments

The initial deployment, beginning in April 2026, focuses on environmental monitoring and safety across four critical hospital areas, including:

• Power and electromechanical systems

• Gas and HVAC infrastructure

• Chemical handling and storage environments

• Clinical testing and laboratory settings, including MRI facilities

These environments are among the most operationally sensitive within hospitals, where early detection of anomalies is essential for safety and continuity.

The program is designed to build a unified sensing capability across environments, enabling AI Nose to monitor and interpret multiple risk domains within a single hospital system.

Building a Hospital-Level Environmental Intelligence Layer

AI Nose is a trainable Smell AI platform that continuously learns from environmental data. By capturing and modeling multi-dimensional scent signals, the system intends to establishe baseline profiles for different environments and detects deviations in real time.

In hospital settings, this enables:

• Monitoring environmental changes associated with infection risk

• Managing hazardous chemicals and specialty gases

• Detecting anomalies in electrical and infrastructure systems at early stages

• Improving visibility into environmental conditions and operational safety

Over time, continuous operation and data accumulation enable AI Nose to transform hospitals from reactive monitoring to proactive, system-wide environmental intelligence.

From Device Deployment to Platform Adoption

This collaboration marks a transition from deploying standalone sensing devices to enabling platform-level adoption. By combining Ainos' Smell AI platform, Topco's system integration capabilities, and MacKay's clinical environment, the partnership establishes a replicable model for scaling across healthcare systems.

Expanding Smell AI in Healthcare

Hospitals are complex, high-risk environments with stringent monitoring requirements. AI Nose introduces a new capability:

• Giving environments a sense of smell

• Enabling earlier awareness of emerging risks

• Supporting a shift from reactive management to preventive operations

"Through this collaboration, AI Nose is entering one of the most demanding real-world environments," said Eddy Tsai, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ainos. "We are building a new layer of environmental perception, enabling earlier awareness across infection, chemical, and infrastructure risks."

Key Takeaways

• Entry into healthcare infrastructure applications

• Extension from industrial to high-standard clinical environments

• Real-world deployment and validation

• Reinforcement of AI perception platform positioning

• Foundation for scalable healthcare expansion

About Ainos, Inc.

Ainos, Inc. (NASDAQ:AIMD)(NASDAQ:AIMDW) is a dual-platform AI and biotech company pioneering smelltechand immune therapeutics. Its AI Nose platform and smell language model (SLM) digitize scent into Smell ID, a machine-readable data format, powering intelligent sensing across robotics, smart factories, and healthcare. The company also develops VELDONA^®, a low-dose oral interferon targeting rare, autoimmune, and infectious diseases. Ainos, a fusion of "AI" and "Nose," is redefining machine perception for the sensory age. To learn more, visit https://www.ainos.com. Follow Ainos on X, formerly known as Twitter, (@AinosInc) and LinkedIn to stay up-to-date.

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