Next-Generation Air Quality Monitor to Help You Get Smarter About Your Indoor Air

The future of Indoor Air Quality Monitoring

• AerHome tracks key pollutants that affect your family’s health and provides expert insights so you can take timely targeted actions for cleaner air and a healthier home. 
• AerHome is about solutions. What’s in your air. What matters. What you can do. No one says “tell me how bad my air is”.  You want to know how to improve the air quality in your home. AerHome is a powerful tool that helps you get smarter about your air.

AerHome Features – A Powerful Tool For Cleaner Air and a Healthier Home

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How AerHome Works for You

AerHome makes it easy to check your air quality in multiple ways. Visual cues and alerts help you stay on top of air quality issues, and expert insights and recommendations help you take timely targeted action. 

• AerHome’s LED ring provides a quick visual reference using the color-coded AQI (Air Quality Index) system established by the U.S. EPA to communicate air quality levels. From Green (Good) to Yellow (Moderate) to Purple (Very Unhealthy), a quick look at AerHome tells you the current state of your air.
• The AerHome App also uses the AQI colors for visual cues about your air quality, room-by-room if you are using multiple AerHome units. Concentration levels for Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide, and VOCs are also shown to help you understand if you are high or low within each AQI range.  

• The App also sends Alerts to your phone when you cross air pollution thresholds. AerHome gives you the option to customize alerts by pollutant, for your specific needs.
• Connect your smart speaker and ask Siri, Alexa, or Google for updates on your air quality and for recommendations to reduce your exposure to harmful pollutants. 

Our Game-Changing Sensors are Ultrasensitive

AerHome is powered by AerNos’s game-changing nanotechnology.  Comparable ultrasensitive gas sensing capabilities are only available in much larger, more costly instruments. AerHome also includes a best-in-class Particulate Matter sensor for large airborne particles (PM10) and the most dangerous ultrafine particles (PM1.0 & PM2.5). AerHome reports temperature and humidity.

Why Our Nanotechnology is Important for AerHome and the World

• Today, ultrasensitive gas sensing instruments for monitoring Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases like Methane are large and very expensive – costing tens of thousands of U.S. dollars. 
• AerNos nano gas sensors are a game-changing solution for hyperlocal, granular monitoring. Our sensors detect multiple gases on one tiny sensor chip (image above) enabling precision and ultrasensitivity in environments with many gases. 
   
• This means cost savings and enhanced functionality for you. 
   
• AerHome’s breakthrough capability is the use of AerNos nanotechnology to monitor multiple gases on one sensor chip – Ozone (O3), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). 
• Patented and Patent Pending Technology:   AerHome technology is a patent-protected and patent-pending technology developed by AerNos covering multiple disciplines of science including product design, nanomaterials, electronics, software, signal processing, algorithms, and manufacturing components. 

Dr. Mike Frank on AerNos sensing capabilities in a multi-gas environment

Partnering with Stanford University Research Scientists to Improve the Health of Children

AerHome was designed for Research Scientists studying the impact of air pollution on human health – from fine particles emitted by wildfires to minute, parts-per-billion levels of ground-level Ozone. These pollutants cause significant short-term and long-term health effects.

When our partners at Stanford University’s Sean Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research called us to discuss the impact of air pollution from wildfires and other sources on schoolchildren, they asked us for a device that could monitor multiple gases at low concentrations and dangerous Particulate Matter. We got to work and AerHome is the result. 

You Can Support Our Campaign AND Children’s Health Research

When you back our campaign, you can get units for your home and give discounted units to support research conducted by the Sean Parker Center at Stanford University. Or, just buy one or more AerHome units for this important research.

Dr. Mary Prunicki and her colleagues at Stanford are working to better understand indoor air pollution in schools and homes, and its effect on schoolchildren. This will enable Dr. Prunicki and the Sean Parker Center to develop recommendations for local, state, and national officials, schools, and parents to reduce children’s exposure to dangerous pollutants. Our goal is for our Indiegogo campaign to generate 500 units for their research.

In this short video SVP Larry Eason shares about the AerHome collaboration with Stanford University research scientists.

More Ways to Support Indoor Air Quality Research

AerHome supports important scientific research. When you receive your AerHome unit(s) and sign on to the AerHome app, you’ll have the opportunity to opt in to anonymously share Indoor Air Quality data with research scientists. In-home air quality data for research is scarce and needed.

Are you are a researcher or citizen scientist? There’s an upgrade option to enabling data downloading capabilities from the App. You’ll see this item during checkout. 

Indoor Air Matters

Clean air has never been more important. With a hotter climate, wildfires, and other extreme weather events, we’ve taken a step backward on air pollution. Many people associate air pollution with outdoor air. However, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), Indoor air pollution is the world’s greatest environmental health risk.

Key indoor air facts

• We spend more than 90% of our time indoors
• The U.S. EPA says indoor air quality is often much worse than outdoor air
• Scientists tell us gas pollutants and fine particles cause illness and diseases such as asthma, heart disease, and dementia
• Air pollution is especially problematic for infants, young children, and during  pregnancy, contributing to asthma, autism, obesity, diabetes, ADHD, and other diseases
• Studies have shown poor air quality and having air pollution-related disease can increase risks associated with Covid-19 
• Climate change-driven temperature increases are contributing to higher levels of air pollution
• Hyperlocal outdoor air quality resources are improving, but indoor air quality monitoring is the only solution for knowing your indoor air quality, pinpointing problems, and taking targeted actions

AerHome’s Gas Sensor is a Replaceable & Upgradeable Component

This is a first. In the future, as we evolve regional Air Quality monitoring strategies, or develop niche capabilities (e.g. pet owners), you will be able to keep your AerHome and simply upgrade the sensor chip. 

This is part of our vision of bringing low-cost sensors to the world to improve health, wellness, and safety.  Founder and CEO Sundip Doshi talks about this vision in the short clip below.

Founder and CEO Sundip Doshi talks about our vision for the replaceable sensor chip

Why an Indiegogo campaign? What do we need?

We need your help. Hitting our AerHome crowdfunding goal on Indiegogo will enable us to hit minimum order quantities so we can produce AerHome at a reasonable cost.

Use of funds:

• Cost of materials to produce AerHome, including housings, electronic components, PM sensors, etc.
• Cost or ramping our manufacturing team and capabilities 

Our $250,000 goal represents the minimum order size and funding amount we will require to begin producing AerHomes and to sell them at a reasonable price. 

What You Get For Backing Our Campaign 

We are excited to offer these Perks to our backers!  

• AerHome unit(s) for your home, the AerHome App, and a free lifetime data plan for purchases through Indiegogo 
• AerHome unit(s) gifted for Air Quality research at Stanford University’s Sean N. Parker Center for Asthma and Allergy Research and the good feeling that comes from making a difference
• AerNos “Do you know what’s in the air, we do” T-Shirt for $25 donation – add on available during checkout
• Researcher or Citizen Scientist upgrade for data downloading via the AerHome App – add on available during checkout

Prototype Demonstrations & Images

AerHome has multiple components, the AerIoT multi-gas sensor component, Particulate Matter, temperature and humidity sensors, the housing, along with electronics and other parts. Additionally, there is the AerHome App which connects to the cloud via WiFi, and our Cloud Platform. AerHome also connects to our Cloud Platform via WiFi. The prototype videos below are intended to help potential backers understand our capabilities and the current prototype stage of AerHome. The most challenging aspect of AerHome is the ultrasensitive multi-gas sensing capability and the ability to manufacture our multi-gas sensing chips at scale.

AerHome Gas Detection Capability Using Ozone (O3)

This video is a demonstration of AerHome’s gas sensing capability. We show the AerHome unit, an AerNos 3 x 3 mm gas sensor chip, and an AerIoT unit (with a 3 x 3 mm gas sensor chip inside), which are components in AerHome. We expose the unit to Ozone (O3) using an Ozone generator and demonstrate the LED ring responding with AQI (Air Quality Index) color-coded lighting which provides visual cues to the user. The light moves from green to yellow to orange as the Ozone reaches the sensor inside AerHome. 

AerIoT Gas Sensing Component Inside AerHome

This video shows the AerNos AerIoT gas sensing component inside AerHome. The AerIoT component has the AerNos 3 x 3 mm nano gas sensor chip inside.  AerIoT is a replaceable/upgradeable component, accessed via the drawer shown in the video. 

AerHome App Capability Utilizing AerBand 

This is a demonstration of AerNos’s App capabilities. The AerHome App is in development so we are using the AerNos AerBand App to illustrate our App development capability and specifically our ability to show real-time Air Quality readings on the app from our gas sensor. AerBand is an AerNos product developed for research. In this video we show a screenshot of the AerHome App that is under development. Then we show the AerBand app and expose the AerBand unit to Ozone (O3) using an Ozone generator. We demonstrate the App responding with the dial moving higher and changing color based on AQI (Air Quality Index) color-coded values. To keep the Ozone from defusing in the room and being unhealthy for us during the experiment, we direct the Ozone towards the AerBand with a straw and leave the room when we are done.

Manufacturing AerNos Multi-Gas Sensor Chips at Scale

Microscopic view of AerNos multi-gas sensor fabrication 

This GIF shows a microscopic view of the AerNos 3 x 3 mm sensor chip manufacturing process on a wafer. Developing the equipment and processes to manufacture the multi-gas sensor chip at scale was a major undertaking that took approximately 3 years. The materials deposition shown in the GIF is only part of a complex process for manufacturing the chip. 

Sundip Doshi & Dr. Mike Frank discuss challenges of manufacturing the nanotechnology

The AerNos Team

The Experienced Team Behind AerHome Includes Scientists, Engineers, Data Scientists, Manufacturing Experts, and Entrepreneurs

AerHome is built by a seasoned team dedicated to improving health and safety worldwide by building tiny, accurate, low-cost air quality sensors for the Internet of Things (IoT). Many of us have worked together at AerNos for over 5 years.

• AerHome’s team has over 100 years of collective nanotechnology experience
• Leadership with 200+ years building tech companies, tech products, shipping, and scaling
• Senior leaders with 30+ years developing products for the semiconductor industry and 30+ years building manufacturing facilities
• Entrepreneurs with experience building and scaling companies
• Leadership with social impact, environmental and public health expertise
• AerHome is our passion project, a chance to see our Next-Generation sensors helping families have cleaner air and helping children’s health research conducted by our partners at Stanford University’s Sean N. Parker Center for Asthma & Allergy Research

How You Can Help

If you like what we are doing, there are many ways to help! The most important thing is to help spread the word by sharing our campaign on social media and telling your friends and colleagues who you know are concerned about air quality and health. 

• Share our Indiegogo page on social media using the links at the top right of the page
• Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn

Thank you for your support!

Risks & challenges

The main risk to our delivery timeline for AerHome is related to current disruptions to international supply chains caused in part by the COVID-19 global pandemic.  This could potentially impact our ability to get the components selected for AerHome on a timely basis, impacting our target for shipping units starting in March of 2022. 

To mitigate the challenge and risk, we have a very experienced team working on the manufacturing side and we are selecting partners with the intent of isolating AerHome from that risk.

Contact Us

For questions and support email us at support@myaerhome.com.