Ikea Air Quality Sensor

Ikea Air Quality Sensor: With Ikea’s new Vindstyrka indoor air quality sensor coming in April, it will be easier to keep track of air pollutants in your home. The tabletop device has a big screen so you can see the PM2.5 levels, humidity, temperature, and total volatile organic compounds (VOC) in your home’s air in real time. No prices have been set yet, but if Ikea is to be believed, they will be competitive.

The Vindstyrka, which means “wind force,” can work as a standalone air quality monitor or connect to Ikea’s new Dirigera hub ($69) to see readings in the Home smart app and control Ikea’s Starkvind air purifier line to help improve air quality.

The intelligent Home Ikea app was recently updated to include air quality monitoring and reporting of PM2.5 levels from Starkvind products, and the new Vindstyrka will likely do the same when it arrives. The press release says that when the Vindstyrka is connected to the Dirigera hub, it will be able to automatically change the speed of the Starkvind’s fans based on how much PM2.5 is in the air.

Also, the Dirigera is ready for Matter, and Ikea has said that the hub will be updated to work with the new smart home standard. This spring, the next Matter release will include indoor air quality monitors, so the Vindstyrka may work with Matter in the future.

This would let the sensor connect to and control any Matter-compatible device in any Matter-compatible ecosystem. For example, it could work with Apple Home to turn on a TP-Link Tapo smart plug that controls a fan or connect to an Amazon Smart Thermostat using Alexa to change the temperature in your home when the temperature rises. (When the sensor came out, Ikea didn’t say which smart home platforms it would work with out of the box.)

Ikea already has an air quality sensor that isn’t connected to the internet, but the $16 Vindriktning only checks for PM2.5. Instead of a screen or app, it uses an LED light to show how clean the air is. In addition to sensing PM2.5, the new Vindstyrka can also measure temperature, humidity, TVOCs, and connect to other devices.

The Vindstyrka is probably going to cost a lot more than the Vindriktning. I think it will be between $60 and $80. Most indoor air quality monitors are expensive, especially if they can measure PM2.5 and have a screen. The Airthings 2960 View costs $300 and measures CO2 and radon in addition to what the Vindstyrka does. It also has a screen. Sensibo’s Elements costs $179. It doesn’t have a screen, but it does monitor CO2.

Amazon’s $70 Smart AQ Monitor can monitor the same things as the Vindstyrka, plus carbon monoxide, but it doesn’t have a screen. This is probably where Ikea’s monitor will fall. The small indoor air quality monitor with a screen from Aqara costs only $45 and doesn’t measure PM2.5. It also needs a hub.

Ikea says that the Vindstyrka will come out in April, so we should know more about how much it will cost then.

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