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Acer Air Monitor Keeps You In The Know About the Air Around You

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/24/2017 06:52 AM | source: | 11 comment(s)
Acer Air Monitor Keeps You In The Know About the Air Around You

No-no, it's not a monitor. Well, yeah it also kinda is but not the kind you expect from Acer. Acer today announced its new air monitor designed to help people keep tabs on indoor air quality. 

The Acer Air Monitor features a sleek and simple design, the device allows real-time monitoring of key air quality indicators through a dedicated app for smartphones, and by the changing colors of a breathing LED light embedded on the chassis.

In addition, home automation based on air quality indicators, such as activating an air purifier, can be achieved thanks to IFTTT integration.

“In realization of our vision of the IoB (Internet of Beings), an IoT based on intelligence, we’re excited to introduce the Acer Air Monitor to the market,” said Wayne Ma, General Manager of IoB, Acer Cloud Technology (Taiwan) Inc. “Research from the US and EU[ii] both show that people on average spend about 90% of their time indoors; at home, at work, and everywhere in between, and we would like to empower people with actionable information to make better life choices.”

Further highlighting the importance of indoor air quality, the World Health Organization[iii] reported that 4.3 million people die each year from exposure to household air pollution.

Six Key Indicators to Quantify Indoor Air Quality

Through a wide variety of sensors, the Acer Air Monitor is capable of tracking six key air quality indicators, including TVOC (Total Volatile Organic Compounds), carbon dioxide, PM2.5, PM10, temperature, and humidity. The measured data can be easily accessed in real time from a dedicated smartphone app from anywhere in the world through the internet, while warnings can be sent via push notifications when indicators exceed predefined thresholds. Triggers can also be sent to IFTTT, allowing users to take action when air quality changes.

Design That Blends Into the Home or Office

The Acer Air Monitor blends easily into home or office environments with a simple and sleek chassis, allowing users to place them throughout the house or workplace. A subtle circular breathing LED light allows users to visualize the current air quality through different colors that indicate varying degrees of air quality. An integrated sensor automatically turns off the light when the ambient lighting is dimmed to a certain level to prevent distracting users while they sleep.

Price and Availability

The Acer Air Monitor will be available in Q2 in selected countries, and will be on display during MWC 2017 at the Taiwan Excellence booth (Hall 7, 7L81). Exact specifications, prices, and availability will vary by region. To learn more about availability, product specifications and prices in specific markets, please contact your nearest Acer office via www.acer.com.



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Fox2232
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#5397601 Posted on: 02/24/2017 08:17 PM
Breathable, non breathable and chances are by the time it informs me of the latter it's too late anyway.

OOO someone who has one, can you try a wee experiment for me and ask this

'Alexa what's the point of you if I have a smart phone?' Just wanna see what the answer is.
I saw some video where alexa started to talk about kinky porn after child misspelled something.
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As for home automation, I would get one too. But it is not smart enough yet (custom programming), and not enough interesting modules.
I could as well just get Arduino and do it completely myself.
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To this monitor. It is OK for limited use. Here in central Europe, Air pollution is not that bad, and risks are damn low. So, it would mainly display boring numbers like temperature/humidity. (If it was capable to display numbers.)
And that's something you already are capable to distinct yourself in an instant from experience.

My classical weather station does show temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, date/time, moon phase, image of expected weather. Comes with 433MHz external sensors and tunes time automatically through RF. (And is dirty cheap as any weather station today.)

But this Acer thing is very limited by its color way of communication. And as such when something finally goes wrong, you will go to manual to find what this blinking red means.
Definitely misses Carbon Monoxide on top of that.

I see it as little children's room decoration at most. As most of adults would rather be informed directly about each sensor, than looking at nice colors.

vbetts
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#5397604 Posted on: 02/24/2017 08:22 PM
I pictured a computer monitor with filters around it.

0blivious
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#5397687 Posted on: 02/24/2017 11:17 PM

'Alexa what's the point of you if I have a smart phone?' Just wanna see what the answer is.

Just asked her...

Sorry, I didn't understand the question I heard.

That's her default answer when I confuse her. :nerd:

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#5397690 Posted on: 02/24/2017 11:26 PM
My chair needs that feature more than my monitor




Fox2232
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#5397709 Posted on: 02/25/2017 12:28 AM
Just asked her...

That's her default answer when I confuse her. :nerd:
"Alexa, what do you taste like."

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