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These days, all kinds of appliances are getting makeovers with smart home automation. Designers are using different kinds of tools to build smarter systems. They’re relying on AI models that can bring more refined evaluation to home appliances.
Air purifiers are no exception, and new smart features can change the way that you use one of these devices.
Let’s go over some of the most popular new smart features on air purifiers sold by top manufacturers.
Remote Control with Digital Devices
One of the basic smart home automation features is wireless connectivity that allows users to turn air purifiers on or off, change speeds and modes, and manage settings with their smartphones. This type of central dashboard design paves the way for other kinds of features that are more geared toward understanding the environment that the machine is working in.
In terms of convenience, though, these digital operation systems play a big role. Otherwise, the user would have to walk around hitting buttons on individual machines. Not to mention that now, you can do all of this without even being home!
Air Evaluation, Notifications, and Insights
In general, these smart machines can also do more to analyze changes in your indoor air.
Suppose, for example, that you’re cooking some dish, and generating some smoke with high heat … or you light a candle in the living room…
With new smart features, the air purifier can respond automatically. You don’t have to tell the machine to ramp up its air handling to compensate for the contaminants that are a result of combustion.
Some of these units can even send you notifications about these events when they sense more pollution in the air.
This whole concept turns the traditional idea of home appliances on its head. Instead of you telling the machine what to do, in other words, alerting it to the need for higher settings, the machine tells you what’s going on in your home, and again, you may or may not actually be physically present. It takes a lot of getting used to – because this is a fundamentally different way to manage an appliance.
Some of the more sophisticated models also have logs that you can check to understand spiking of contaminants over time. So in addition to notifications, you can also do a deep dive into what your air regularly looks like.
Scheduling and Programmable Air Purifiers
In addition to sensing events, these air purifiers can be programmed to work differently at different times of the day or night, or on routine settings, and changes to a routine, like vacations.
Filter Life Tracking
Another great smart feature on some air purifiers is the ability of these systems to keep tabs on how the filter is doing, and notify the user about when to replace it.
We know that adequate filter replacement is important for optimal use. But it’s easy to forget over time, and a little light telling you that the filter is past it’s useful life isn’t a very sophisticated means of signaling. Some new air purifiers can give you more of a chart of filter use, such as the saturation of a carbon bed, and help you plan for when to replace that accessory. It’s important partly because the filter is so critical to having the machine work correctly.
Multi-Device Control
Some air purifiers can also link together in a home’s local area network or LAN.
This is true of certain Wi-Fi models that can connect to other devices in your home, and manage things through machine to machine (M2M) signaling.
Smart Manufacturing and New Appliances
Here’s another interesting way that artificial intelligence is inserting itself into the air purifier industry.
So you might actually have AI automating some of the manufacturing work involved.
Another thing that newer systems can do is simulate environments with something called digital twinning. Essentially, the system creates a digital replica of a complex system, and evaluates it that way.
You might hear about digital twins in the context of manufacturing, or in healthcare, or even in your air purifier dashboard design, where your new machine might make a digital twin of the home and its layout to figure out things like cubic feet per minute of airflow, air changes per hour, etc.
This can be extremely useful when you’re putting together a plan for using an air purifier in your home.
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