-What’s the Issue?
The air in your home can be contaminated from both outside and within. It may be smoke from wood-fires, rural burning, or bushfires. It might be dust or chemicals from industry, or particulates from trucks. But it could also be viruses, excess moisture encouraging mold, or chemicals from building materials, furnishings, or solvents.
In some cases, you need to ventilate more. In others, you need to ventilate less. How are you supposed to know what to do and when?
We Have the Tools, We Just Need the Smarts
The means to improve indoor air quality are available but rarely used properly. Relatively inexpensive ventilation fans and air filtration appliances are readily available and were proven highly effective during COVID-19 when used smartly. To be smart, they need to be partnered with air quality sensors, which are also increasingly available. Crucially, they need to be combined using a system smart enough to detect where the problem is coming from and select the right solution – whether it be more or less ventilation or filtration.
At The Air Quality Collective, we are busy building the Smart Home Air Quality System. The System aims to:
- Work towards goals you set (you can prioritize impact, noise, or energy conservation)
- Address the specific air quality problems you are dealing with, no matter how complex
- Evaluate the impact it’s having, sharing the results with you, so that you and the system learn together
Get Involved – Help Us Evaluate Our Prototype Systems
We are looking for householders who would like to test-drive our prototypes. Current opportunities are available in Alexandra and Clyde (Otago). If you are interested, please fill in our online Expression of Interest form.
Further opportunities may become available soon.
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