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Poor air quality can impact your health and comfort in many ways, including respiratory health, sleep, focus, mood, and immunity. You can use different air quality meter and their features to sleep better, control your allergies, increase productivity or improve your general health.
PROS • CO2 Meter gives information related to the quality of air you have in your home, greenhouse or office. • Continuously measures carbon dioxide, temperature and relative humidity. • Self-calibrating, no moving parts to wear out. • Just plug it into a wall socket — the TIM10 turns on instantly. • Measure CO2: 0-10,000ppm – Temperature: 0-120F – %RH: 20-99.9%
PROS • Awair makes sure to focus on what matters most. You can personalise the insights and tips based on your preferences. • Track and monitor your improvements over time to better understand your indoor environment. • Timeline feature helps you in viewing the patterns and changes in your air from your first day.
Poor air quality can be caused due to various reasons which include dust particles, dirty air ducts, clogged air vents, dirty HVAC filters, smoking, pets, and many more factors. That is why it’s important to have an Air Quality Meter at your home or office so that you can avoid respiratory problems.
1 CO2Meter AZ-0004 Indoor Air Quality CO2 Meter The CO2 Monitor helps you to measure the CO2 levels around your indoor surroundings. This meter is very accurate and inexpensive.
CONS • Does not work very well in wet environment. • Interface is not much user friendly. • The User Manual font is too small to read.
Move it from room to room to test CO2 levels in your house. The CO2 Meter reveals if your home’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system is operating properly. High CO2 levels indicate inadequate or closed return air ducts. Low levels of CO2 indicate that there is fresh air and it’s wasting heating or cooling energy. In addition to its CO2 meter, the TIM10 has an accurate digital thermometer and relative humidity indicator.
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Awair- Air Quality Monitor Awair captures the main factors of air quality: Dust, Chemicals (VOCs), CO2, Humidity, and Temperature. Awair tracks bad elements in your air and gives you suggestion to help you keep it safe and clean. Also, the Awair provides the information required to improve your environment and take control.
• Problem identified with constant wifi drops. • LED display can’t be dimmed. • Sometimes the humidity measurements are not accurate. • Only records data for a day.
• Awair+ helps you to automatically connect with other smart products to keep your air clean and healthy. • Awair works with Nest, Amazon Echo, IFTTT, and more.
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PROS • Just plug it in, download the app, sync your Foobot, and receive the data. • Provides real-time data on your smartphone every 5 minutes, no matter where you are, hassle and glitch free. • Colored LEDS will show you instantly what your air quality is like. LED lights can be dimmed from the app and sleep time is also available. • You can connect your Foobot to your home automation devices. • Foobot works with wifi.
Foobot Air Quality Monitor Foobot can identify the invisible and odorless pollutants in your indoor environment and show them through its LED display. In one glance, the color and breadth of its glow will let you know whether your air feels more like a forest in the Alps or a freeway in L.A.
• It displays current levels of CO2 and also show long-term average CO2 levels which are measured over an 8-hour period, and short-term average CO2 levels which are measured over a 15-minute period.
Amprobe CO2-100 Handheld Carbon Dioxide Meter
• Body is made of poor quality plastic. • User guide is poorly written.
The Amprobe CO2-100 Handheld Carbon Dioxide Meter provides you feedback with different levels of CO2, and also it give the useful information about additional temperature and humidity measurement.
• Manual calibration helps ensure accurate humidity and CO2 readings.
This is very useful in verifying HVAC system performance and quality air ventilation control.
• Very easy to use. • Measures particles down to .5 microns. • Real-time measuring system – you get almost instant updates. • It has a bright moving display that shows it at work as it “counts” each particle passing through. • Has different modes to use. Use the “monitor mode” during the night and “continuous mode” during the day.
• The app is buggy on the iPhone X.
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• It’s LCD shows ambient CO2 levels, as well as air, wet bulb, or dew point temperature and humidity.
PROS
• Foobot does not support 5 GHz WiFi routers.
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Built-in alarm warns against dangerous CO2 levels. The portable CO2-100 Air Quality meter is designed to measure air quality compliance in occupied spaces such as offices, production floors, schools or hospitals.
• Alarm notifies operator when CO2 levels reach or exceed a preset threshold, CO2 measurement up to 9999 ppm.
• Expect accurate readings after 6 days.
Foobot includes sensors for PM2.5 (particulate matters), VOC (chemicals), Temperature and Humidity.
PROS • Handheld digital meter measures ambient level of carbon dioxide (CO2) to monitor indoor air quality and performance of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems.
CONS
• Complaints regarding the poorly made user interface.
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Dylos DC1100 Pro Air Quality Monitor
• Doesn’t support 220-240V in case you live outside of the US.
Features technology and engineering that allows monitoring of indoor air quality with an LCD screen that provides small and large particle counts with a dynamic bar graph showing actual count reading.
• Provides only a 90-day warranty which is less as compared to other quality meters.
Dylos DC1100 have different types modes which including minute, hour, day and monitor to check your quality of air and keep it for 30 days for review.
• Cabled product which means measuring around your house requires constant plugging / unplugging or a long extension cord.
• PM2.5 count is not accurate, especially when the air moisture level or temperature is high.
Detects particles down to 0.5 micron. Large particle size range is calibrated to 2.5 microns and above.
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edit - 08.20.18