Element Indoor Air Quality Monitor

This air monitoring device is awesome it gives you all the data the amount of chemical in the air so much info!

I had one for a year, but began seeing suspiciously high TVOCs when my furnace turned on. So I got a second one, then performed the TVOC calibration in the app, and they were within 20% ppb of each other consistently, which is actually quite good for TVOC sensing. The rest of the metrics were within 1%.BUT, I was still seeing high TVOCs correlated with my furnace turning on. After trying new filters, and venting rates, I finally tried to dehumidify the air intake into the furnace. BINGO. The TVOCs dropped to from a having peaks of 3000 ppb to about 400 ppb (its been a few weeks now).It turns out that our exceptionally cold and wet winter in California makes combustion of the humid air “run rich”, meaning that there was a higher fuel-to-air ratio. This leads to uncombusted hydrocarbons in the exhausted air.I am so glad I had this device to even know that this was a problem to fix.

Awair has dropped their support for IFTTT & Smartthings. They are now useless.

Works really great

I bought this because I was worried about chemicals in our new construction home. I’m happy I bought it, because I can keep an eye on the chemicals, but I also found out that our humidity was very high, so I bought a dehumidifier as well. Our co2 was also high. It helps me know when it’s time to open a window which is great as I am expecting and also have two other small children in the house. Helps with peace of mind.

Element Awair powered up with blinking blue led but not detected by android app until force stopped and relaunched app. Almost returned it.

This device provides valuable feedback on air quality, has a decent and useful app for phones, and is compact and good looking. I purchased the Awair Element after my floors were sealed, kitchen cabinets painted (with oil paint), and all my walls were painted. I did not want to breath all that junk, so after letting the paint and floor cure for a week, I put Awair Element in my home to monitor the VOC levels. The feedback I received was useful and I didn't more back in until the air quality was safe. (It took about 3 weeks after painting for the home to get to safe levels. I aired the home out frequently during those weeks to help move things along. Even now after 3 months the kitchen cabinets are off gassing (they still stick a little), but there is enough air circulating in my home to keep the air well in the safe zone.)

Crazy easy to set up - app works great. levels update regularly and make sense. seems accurate when compared to other high-end devices. small footprint. external display is nice. would easily recommend this. can be a nice, easy way to determine when to open windows and air things out a bit (CO2 high) or crank up the Winix (tVOCs high). will likely buy another one to put in another area of the home.update - bought a 2nd one for upstairs - tested it downstairs first for accuracty - 2nd one reads almost exactly the same as the 1st one = good! fantastic device.