The second annual 2019 SXSW Wellness Expo highlighted a number of innovative products designed to make your life happier and, of course, healthier. This two-day event featured a variety of demonstrations, healthy samples, outstanding products, and more than a couple fitness classes in order to promote healthy living in the Austin area.
Few groups stood out more than indoor air quality company, Airthings. This company produces the best-selling digital radon detectors available on the market today, but their new Healthy Building Solution hopes to improve your indoor air quality as a whole through real-time, wireless detection.
"Studies have actually proven that optimizing indoor air quality is directly correlated to improved productivity, and in turn, greater revenue generation," claims Airthings CEO Oyvind Birkenes. "Our goal to introduce management professionals to our IAQ monitors and enable them to check all these boxes: a healthy building, a productive and motivated staff, and an innovative, forward-thinking company model."
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is determined by a variety of factors, most notably the particulate matter present in your air. While we all know that pollen counts and smog can cause a decrease in air quality both indoors and outdoors, there are countless factors in the home and workplace that can put your health at risk. For example, seemingly innocuous factors like high levels of humidity can play a damaging role in the quality of your indoor air.
If a person is surrounded by harmful air on a regular basis, deteriorating health effects might occur, such as the development of asthma, recurring headaches, or allergies.
This is why it's so important to utilize the best ventilation in hazardous work environments, like kitchens and manufacturing plants. In fact, almost 70% of all manufacturers utilize a compressed air system for ventilation and more.
However, the indoor air quality in your home and office is just as necessary. This often-neglected home component is in need of a change, prompting companies like Airthings have taken an active role in developing new IAQ-monitoring products.
Airthings unveiled three energy-efficient, wireless products designed to detect and measure any potential hazards in your air. For example, their new "Wave Plus" sensors measure radon levels, CO2, humidity, TVOCs, temperature, and air pressure in real time. Better yet, this technology also offers suggestions and tips to help improve your air quality and save energy.
Airthings also showcased two other wireless products: the "Wave Mini" and the "Airthings Hub" (both featured below). While the "Wave Mini" is perfect for measuring the IAQ of a single room; the "Airthings Hub" relies on multiple devices to be distributed throughout an entire building. This can enable a company to seal off dangerous areas and locate the source of air contamination, assuring the safety of their employees.
Improving your work and home environment is essential to reducing turnover rate within your company, improving the health of your family, and leading a happier life. With allergy season right around the corner, it's more vital than ever to get a head start on improving your indoor air quality. While planting trees and shrubs can help reduce your energy bills by nearly 25%, these very same plants can also make your allergies go haywire. It's no wonder Americans will contract more than one billion colds each year.
If you're trying to improve your health through the innovative products featured at the 2019 Wellness Expo, perhaps you should start with your indoor air quality.
