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April Newsletter: Easter treats from the AirSuite team 🐰

In case you missed it: A round-up of all our latest features in the AirSuite Portal

Brad Christensen, AirSuite Head of Product

3rd Apr 2024

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Happy Easter! A lot has happened since we last graced your inbox in November. Here’s a quick round-up of what’s been happening in our world.

• Peter was featured in Nordic Semiconductor’s Wireless Quarter magazine, speaking about the launch of AirSuite Glance and the advanced tech that enables it.
• Nick visited James Cook University in Cairns to support our local partner, iCanary with the launch of their offering.
• Sam was crowned the quiz winner of the Generative AI workshop that he and I attended with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Auckland. Of course, we’re looking forward to seeing some of that technology making its way into our Portal soon…
• And last week, I spoke at local meetup Tech Waikato, hosted by LIC, on the challenges we faced and lessons learned bringing AirSuite Glance to market.

While we’ve been doing a lot of yakking, our awesome team have been holding down the fort - you might have noticed we’ve scattered a few improvements across the AirSuite Monitor Portal during this time, primarily focused on enhancing functionality for Particulate Matter sensors:

• Particulate Matter charts have been redesigned
• Devices with PM now display the RESET® Viral Index
• You can now choose which sensors trigger alerts to mobile app users, including PM2.5 and PM10

And today, we’ve released a new update to our mobile app, which includes the ability to sign in using your AirSuite Portal account. After signing in just once, you don’t need to enter your organisation’s deployment password any more, which will make it an even quicker job next time you’re fitting out a building with AirSuite sensors.

For those of us in New Zealand, we may have had some beaut days lately, but the nights are most definitely getting colder - I’ve been noticing the condensation on my windows in the mornings! Now is a good time to make sure you’re prepared to keep the buildings you manage safe, comfortable and free of mould over Winter.

Best regards,
Brad and the AirSuite team

Particulate Matter gets a makeover

We’re hearing more and more from our customers that particulates are a key concern for a number of reasons - whether it’s smoke and dust from wildfires in Australia, or mould spores in damp New Zealand buildings - so it’s been a key focus for us going into 2024.

Our Particulate Matter sensors capture highly granular data, from PM1 through to PM10 - and although this is a great advantage, we found all these data points were often overwhelming to look at all at once. Having them all together on the same chart also didn’t lend itself well to comparing the PM data produced by more than one device.

The first step we took was to simplify the initial ‘summary’ chart down to just PM2.5 and PM10, which is what most people want to look at:

You can now click on the See more button to be taken to a new page containing a more detailed summary, including all available particle sizes (PM1, PM2.5, and so on). Each particle size also has its own graph, which can be used to easily compare data between multiple devices. You can still toggle between Mass and Number concentrations at the top of the page.

Alert thresholds for PM2.5 and PM10 can now be configured according to your preferences, and you can choose whether mobile app notifications are enabled for each of them within your organisation settings page.

RESET® Viral Index

AirSuite devices with Particulate Matter sensors can now display the RESET® Viral Index, which is a metric used to assess the risk of airborne viral transmission within indoor environments. It combines data from PM2.5, humidity, and CO₂ levels to provide an overall risk score.

This is one of the first deliverables from a project we’re working on to derive new insights from the information collected by your sensors. Stay tuned for more in the months ahead…

Mobile app sign-in

Instead of using your organisation’s device setup password, you can now optionally sign into the AirSuite mobile app with your Portal account. The app will remember you, so you only need to sign in once to deploy any number of sensors throughout your building or facility.

Note: this feature is brand new! Your phone normally downloads updates for apps automatically overnight, so if you don’t have it yet, check for updates in your phone’s app store.

We also made a few other improvements to the mobile app. Among them…

Up next

• LTE + PM: Until now, we’ve only included Particulate Matter as an optional add-on for AirSuite Wi-Fi devices, but we’ve just developed a solution for adding PM to Sense LTE devices too. Our first batch of Sense LTE + PM devices is being manufactured this month, so if you’ve been holding out for LTE + PM, let us know!
• Data inferences & insights: We’re currently collaborating with the New Zealand Ministry of Education to incorporate various data interpretation methods into the AirSuite Portal. Expect to see metrics for measuring mould growth, ventilation rate, and insulation quality, among others.
• Property management: Later this year, we’ll upgrade the Portal to allow you to group, filter, and more easily see insights across properties.

If you have ideas you’d like to see implemented, let us know! We’re always keen to hear your feedback.

Best regards,
Brad and the AirSuite team