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Does your home need an air-purifier? This Air Quality Monitor helps detect more than 20 common air pollutants

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Designed to be no larger than a Mac Mini, the IAQ is the first comprehensive home air quality monitor, with the ability to detect up to 20 common indoor air pollutants in real-time. The IAQ device includes an array of sensors that work right out of the box, monitoring your indoor air quality better than your smoke alarm or any other smart home device you may have. A built-in cellular system means your air quality monitor doesn’t need to be paired to your smartphone or your home WiFi. It works on its own even when your WiFi is down, sending air quality data in real-time to the IAQ app, so you know exactly how clean the air you breathe is… and whether you need to spring for a good air purifier.

Designers: Josh Odmark & Gideon Rubin

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We care a lot about how clean our food and water is. Companies always provide nutrition labels and comply with strict FDA guidelines and standards to ensure that the food you eat and the beverages or water you drink are safe. Air doesn’t get that sort of urgent treatment, even though we’re more dependent on air than we are on food and water (you take more than 20,000 breaths per day). Air is invisible too, so there’s really no way of knowing how good or bad the air is, and even really good air purifiers can only detect particulate matter to let you know if there’s dust or pollen in the air. That’s where something like the IAQ comes in. The tiny box can be placed anywhere in your house, and only really needs to be connected to a power source. Plug the IAQ in and you’re pretty much halfway done because it’s already actively scanning your air for you. To see how good or bad the air in your room is, just scan the QR code on the IAQ’s box and it instantly guides you to a page that gives you a detailed, real-time breakdown of your air’s quality.

With its state-of-the-art sensors, the IAQ gives you the regular metrics like your air temperature, pressure, humidity, and PM (particulate matter), but also lifts the curtain on more detailed metrics like the levels for Radon, VOCs, Carbon Monoxide, cooking fumes, Formaldehyde, and even airborne molds in the air you breathe. Your newly unpacked IKEA furniture could be leaking formaldehyde into your air, or your kitchen fumes could be making their way to the living room because you didn’t open all the windows. Your smoke detector or smart home setup wouldn’t be able to pick up on such nuanced changes to air quality, but IAQ can.

You can view the IAQ’s data online by scanning the QR code, or by installing its companion smartphone app. Your air quality information is presented in an easy-to-view dashboard, while also giving you the ability to receive alerts or trigger home automations like activating your air purifier or HVAC to circulate the bad air, mixing in good air to reduce its concentration. If you’ve already got a comprehensive smart home setup, you can even access your data within existing apps like Apple HomeKit, Alexa, Smart Things, and more. Moreover, your IAQ is designed to be compatible with the Matter protocol, allowing it to easily communicate with your other smart home devices across multiple brands for many years to come.

The IAQ can detect more than 20 common household air pollutants

Monitoring your air quality shouldn’t be a highly difficult task, which is why the IAQ’s easy-to-use setup is so noteworthy. The IAQ comes with no buttons, switches, or display. All you do is plug it in and it starts running. It has its own built-in cellular network that runs even when your WiFi is down, and you don’t need a fancy app or even need to sign in with your credentials to see your air quality. Just scan the QR code on the IAQ’s packaging and you can instantly see your room’s air quality index.

Each IAQ comes encased in a Prusa 3D-printed outer shell, which the makers claim helps them keep a low carbon footprint while being scalable and cost-effective. The sensors on the inside come from reliable suppliers including Bosch and Sensirion, and with a cost of $60 for a single IAQ device, you get a 2-year subscription to the service which also covers the device’s cellular capabilities. Each unit will also be powered on and tested before being shipped to a customer, according to IAQ’s makers, Josh and Gideon.

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Wheel-like device concept puts a unique spin on monitoring environmental changes

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The world is rapidly changing in more ways than one. While technologies are advancing at a fast pace, so is our planet’s state fluctuating at a somewhat worrying rate. It’s hard to ignore how the climate seems to be less reliable in the past years, throwing predictions and statistics into chaos. At the same time, however, it may have given us more insight into how nature really works, where balance is less static and more like an ever-changing dance. Keeping track of the many environmental factors that affect our health and comfort can be overwhelming and a bit distant for most people, so this curious device tries to represent those environmental markers in a more visual way that drives home the need for equilibrium in our living spaces.

Designers: Johnny Jiasheng Chen, Safiya El Ghmari, Betania Locatti, Rafael Bojorquez (Forenext Design Studio)

Given the health scare we had in 2020 through 2022, many people have become more interested in knowing the quality of the air around them. It isn’t just about viruses and bacteria floating in the air but also environmental factors such as humidity, carbon dioxide, pollution, and even ultraviolet radiation. There are some public services or indoor devices that can give a report on these pieces of data, but most people won’t be able to make heads or tails of the figures they present. More importantly, they don’t always present what should be the ideal amount given your specific location or setting.

Plan B, which is short for “Plan Balance,” offers a different way of interpreting those very same figures. It revolves around the concept of balance, where too much or too little of something could be bad for our health. At the same time, however, it also acknowledges that our situation rapidly changes, so what might be in balance today won’t be the same tomorrow.

At the heart of the Plan B device is a dial composed of three layers that can keep track of at most three elements, including carbon dioxide, oxygen, humidity, temperature, and the like, depending on which ones the user wants to monitor. Each dial has a left and right half, each taking data from a different source. The left side sources information from public services, while the right side gets its data from the three portable sensors below it. The pointers on each side move depending on how much or how little there is of each element. When the two pointers point to each other in the middle, they form a horizontal line that symbolizes balance has been reached.

Plan B is a unique way of looking at how the rapidly changing climate affects our environment, but it also shows the traditional figures in the companion app. Admittedly, not all environmental markers need to be balanced (you want as low PM2.5 as possible, for example), so the visual might not work perfectly for all cases. At the very least, it can compare your indoor environment with what is outside or what should be ideal, allowing you to quickly make changes to increase your comfort and your safety.

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This personal air quality monitor is the size of a keychain!

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Monitoring air quality is going to become crucial post this pandemic as we all try to boost our respiratory systems. It isn’t possible to carry your air purifier everywhere with you and how can you tell if the air quality in the multiple environments that surround you is safe? Well, Sprimo has a solution for you – a keychain-sized personal air monitor that keeps you informed in real-time about the air you breathe. This is extremely important for those with pre-existing respiratory conditions so they can reduce their discomfort by checking the air quality before going to a certain place.

This compact personal gadget monitors the air quality around you and reports the collected data on an intuitive app that you can install on your smartphone. It is compatible with iPhones as the nifty device connects to your phone via the lightning port. As soon as you insert it, the air monitor should give you the readings instantly whether you are indoors or outdoors. Along with the air quality, it also gives you additional details like temperature and humidity’s effects on the air so you cover all your bases. The accurate air quality measurements are then color-coded for easy comprehension – green means clean air and red means you could be breathing in harmful particles. This helps to figure out if the areas you spend most of your time in has clean air and how it affects your health. Like does your office or school has healthy air quality? If not, you now know that you have to take the necessary steps to change that instead of continuing to harm your respiratory system unknowingly.

It also tracks toxic paint smell and chemicals, pollution, smog, cleaners, dirty clothes, second-hand smoke, perfume for allergies, glue, pet waste or garbage, and more! Sprimo’s personal air monitor is determined to make sure you only breathe clean air so your health remains uncomplicated during these complicated times.

Designer: Sprimo

This air quality monitor tracks 5 factors and recommends changes for health

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People are now more self-aware than ever about hygiene. In many ways, the global pandemic has served as a wake-up call for all us to make necessary changes in our lifestyle for better health. From simple habits to gadgets like air purifiers, these changes should stick in our daily routines even after the situation calms down. The first step to better health always starts at home and we usually don’t think about things like the air quality surrounding us unless there is a crisis. Devices like the Awair air quality tracker are here to make our homes a little more pure and safe.

We may not know this but, indoor air can be 5x more polluted than outside as we are constantly exposed to factors like paint, furniture, carpet, air fresheners, toys, and more. The air quality can have a major influence on allergies, asthma, focus, sleep quality, skin health, and overall well-being apart from just physical health. The Awair 2nd-edition air quality monitor can track it all for you and even give you personalized recommendations to improve the air in your space. The smart device records the 5 most important factors that affect your health like fine dust, chemicals, CO2, humidity, and temperature to give you a report straight on your phone with changes we can make to up the quality.

The Awair Score is a color-coded scale that lets you know the quality of your air and what changes you must make to improve it. The scale is from 0 to 100 with 0 being poor air quality and 100 being very healthy. It is compatible with smart home devices like Ecobee, Google Home and Alexa so it seamlessly integrates itself in your ecosystem. You can control it via voice commands or an app on your phone when you aren’t home. Even the physical monitor is designed to match all interior styles with its wood frame and subtle silver interface. If you wouldn’t drink dirty water then why breathe dirty air?

Designer: Awair

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