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New IKEA VINDSTYRKA smart sensor can help you measure and improve your indoor air quality

By Ken Wong - on 15 Feb 2023, 10:43am

New IKEA VINDSTYRKA smart sensor can help you measure and improve your indoor air quality

VINDSTYRKA is IKEA's new smart sensor. Image source: IKEA.

We’ve all seen the ads where a user whips out his smartphone upon receiving an alert. Well, he just got told that the air pollutant levels in the living room are too high...but what is he to do?

Well, IKEA may just have the solution.

IKEA has announced the launch of a new smart air quality sensor, the VINDSTYRKA, that measures and monitors indoor air pollutant levels. What‘s even better is that it also connects to other IKEA smart solutions to help a user improve the air quality if pollutant levels are too high.

As we all know from the haze levels over the past years in Singapore particulate matter (PM2.5), can’t be seen with the naked eye. VINDSTYRKA features a display that shows PM2.5 levels, humidity, temperature, and total volatile organic compound (TVOC).

When connected to DIRIGERA (IKEA’s hub for smart products), the sensor makes indoor air quality levels readable in the IKEA Home smart app. In the app, users can also enable VINDSTYRKA to trigger other smart devices, to control and manage air quality levels. For example, connecting VINDSTYRKA to smart air purifier STARKVIND enables the fan speed to be automatically adjusted in correlation with the amount of PM2.5 in the air, ensuring the air in the home is always as clean as possible.

Henrik Telander, Product owner at IKEA of Sweden, said:

With VINDSTYRKA, our ambition has been to create an affordable high-performing air quality sensor to help our customers become more aware of the quality of the air they breathe in their homes.

 

Pricing and availability

Connecting VINDSTYRKA to DIRIGERA allows data to be shared on IKEA's smart home app. Image source: IKEA.

IKEA says that VINDSTYRKA will be available in all markets starting April 2023. We will update this article with pricing and local availability when we have more information

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