$204,635 raised out of $10,000
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Indiegogo
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Start date
Jan 07, 2024
Close date
Jan 08, 2024
Concept

Rapid Air Cleaning | Expandable System | Low Maintenance | Fragrance Mode | IoT & Free App

Story

Meet Briiv Pro. Live healthier, sleep better and breathe as nature intended with the world’s most sustainable air purifier.

Briiv Pro uses renewable and natural materials to filter the air in your home or office environment, creating clean, safe air so you can breathe, as nature intended.

tl;dr Version 

Briiv Pro is an eco-friendly air purifier with AI-powered sensors for effective air monitoring. In just 21 minutes, it cleans a 4x4m² space and can be linked with additional units for larger areas. Maintenance is easy with natural filters lasting a year and a removable main filter lasting three months. Our app tracks filter health and provides real-time alerts. You can also add essential oils for a personalised touch to the purified air. Briiv Pro combines advanced technology with sustainability for informed air purification.


Creating Healthy, Happy Environments

Good air quality means better sleep, higher energy levels and improved cognitive function.

Air pollution is linked to an increased risk of respiratory conditions, including asthma and even lung cancer. Briiv works to remove pollutants from your home to help you live, work and breathe – healthier, happier and safer lives.

The Problem With Current Air Filters

They’re always benchmarked against other units which makes them bulky, ugly and loud… But more importantly they work independently and don’t impact your entire environment.

With Briiv Pro you can build a mesh network of small and powerful air purifiers that work in unison to automatically improve your air quality, without you having to lift a finger.

Introducing The Future Of Air Purification  

  • Canary mode automatically senses poor air quality and cleans your space when it’s needed.
  • Zone mode connects and controls multiple Briiv units and looks after your entire home.

What Causes Poor Indoor Air Quality?  

Pollutants don’t just come from traffic and factories. Tiny particles and harmful gases are released into your home every time you cook, light candles, use cleaning products and even play with your pets. Briiv helps to remove these so you can enjoy life to its fullest.

How Does Briiv Pro Compare To Just Using Traditional House Plants?

Briiv Pro is 6900% more effective than house plants at cleaning your air! Plants are great there’s no denying that, give them enough time and they will clear your air, but by that time you’ll have inhaled your fair share of nasties! Briiv can clear that same air much faster, leaving you to enjoy your plants and know your air is clean.  

Briiv Pro Is Designed To Return To The Earth

Using a unique three stage filter, Briiv uses the natural micro-structures of moss and coconut that can all be composted at home, along with a ‘HEPA like’ filter with all of the plastic removed to purify air, the way nature intended. 

Multi-Award Winning Design

A different approach to design. Briiv embraces biophilic principles and brings the outdoors in, adding a sense of calm to your environment. 

Briiv has won five international design awards, including the Red Dot Award and the A’ Design Award for our unique and visually stunning approach to design alongside our dedication to creating sustainable and environmentally friendly products.

Clean Air, Anywhere!

Briiv blends beautifully into your interior and sits perfectly alongside plants or displayed as a centrepiece. 

Feel Closer To Nature

Inspired by the British countryside, Briiv uses natural colours, textures and materials to connect you with nature. Hidden within Briiv is a wealth of smart features that work hard to keep your air clean.

The Features

What Does Briiv Pro Filter?

A Happy Hippocampus

Protect cognitive function with better airflow and fewer toxins. Briiv Pro creates a bubble of clean air around you, perfect for your home office.

There is growing evidence that air pollutants are having noticeable detrimental effects on brain function, as demonstrated in a study by the Beijing Normal University in 2018; ‘The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance’ 

Create An Air Quality System Like No Other

Build a complete air quality system in your home or office. Briiv Pro links together with other Briiv units to create a smart air monitoring system, that works to improve your entire home’s air quality like no other air purifier.

Know what’s in your air and do something about it. The second generation Briiv is much more powerful and comes with advanced features as standard.

  • Canary mode automatically senses poor air quality and cleans your space when it’s needed.
  • Zone mode connects and controls multiple Briiv units and looks after your entire home.

How Do I Know It’s Working?

With built in sensors you can use the Briiv app to track your air quality in real time, or tap Briiv Pro to see its indicator that will illuminate green when the air quality is good and red when it’s looking bad.

IOT Connected With Free App

We’ve spent three years refining our existing app and Briiv Pro integrates into this tried and tested foundation for a convenient way to set schedules, monitor filter health and control Briiv remotely, so you can control Briiv Pro how and when you want. 

The World’s First AI Powered Air Purifier

Driven by the latest technology and harnessing a unique AI machine learning algorithm, Briiv Pro isn’t just an award-winning air purifier, it’s also the most advanced air quality monitoring system on the planet.

Remove Smoke With Ease

Smoke produced by cigarettes, vapes, wood burners and natural events like wildfires can cause serious issues to your reparatory health. These are all filtered out by Briiv Pro, giving your lungs a break, and helping you to breathe easier.

Better Than A Window In Winter

Why not just open a window!? I hear you say. Well, in the world we live in now, unless you’re lucky enough to live in the countryside far away from any roads, the air outside in summer can get to pretty dangerous levels and then in winter you’re introducing constant cold drafts into your home or workspace. Sure you can do it, but it won’t make you very popular! 

Our Sick Buildings

Modern homes are ever more closed off, with double glazing UPVC doors, improved building practices and ever better sealing. We have created homes and places of work that save on energy costs but the air within them can’t escape either, becoming increasingly degraded and causing most new buildings to suffer from sick building syndrome. Briiv combats this by removing the build up of toxins in the air throughout the day.

Quiet Operation

Briiv Pro can work while you’re asleep, quietly cleaning away in the background on your bedside table, clearing the air of pollutants and giving you a better night’s sleep. With an all-new fan designed to run quietly and not disturb you.

Ozone Free 

We don’t use Ozone to clear the air, so we’re not adding anything hazardous to the air you’re breathing, not even in trace amounts.

The way we do it is the cleanest, safest and oldest technique around. 

It Smells Good Too! 

Enhance your clean air! Essential oils can be added to Briiv, so that after all of the harmful stuff has been removed, you can put something better back into your room by adding natural fragrance oil to freshen up and give your space a new lease of life, in a completely natural way.
 

Three Products In One

  • Advanced air quality sensor
  • Compact and powerful air purifier
  • Built in fragrance diffuser 

Briiv Pro combines one of the most advanced air quality sensors in existence, an award-winning air purifier and an essential oil diffuser at the same time, so you can monitor your air, do something about it and add fragrance to your space, perfect for a relaxing evening or entertaining guests. 

Designed To Be The Best Looking Filter Around

Designed to improve your environment, Briiv is functional and looks great anywhere, bringing natural style to your home or office. 

Low Maintenance 

With one simple setup, Briiv is super low maintenance with no watering required. Simply replace the Matrix filter every three months and the Moss and Coconut every year.

Filter Stages

We use 90% natural filter materials 

Sphagnum Moss, has an innate ability to trap particulate matter in its structure. This layer captures pollen and other allergens such as pet dander.

Waste Coconut husks are re-purposed into filtration fibre. This dense mesh targets smaller particles and dirt.

The Matrix filter is a HEPA like material but with the plastics, metals and glues removed so it has 98% less plastic than any other HEPA filter. 

This unique setup gives the best combination of natural biodegradable and standard medical filters for the best air in your home or office.   

Replacement Filters / Running Cost Comparison 

How To Replace The Filters

How Long Do The Filters Last?

 

On average the moss or activated carbon and coconut will need replacing once a year and the finer HEPA like Matrix Filter lasts around 3 months. 

If you use Briiv Pro with the app, you can get more accurate information on filter use and when to change them based on your actual use. So, you don’t have to worry about remembering when you last changed them.   

Filter Options

We are using a Yorkshire Sphagnum moss that grows in most gardens around the world, ours is locally sourced and can be washed and dried in Briiv Pro for reuse, but you can also pick your own garden moss and allow it to dry in briiv so you can grow your own filter. At the end of its life it can be composted at home, we are the only filter in the world that lets you do this.

Low Power

Briiv Pro has been designed to pack a punch in the most efficient way. The bonus you get for helping the environment is one of the most effective money-saving air filters around. 

How The System Works

You can group one Briiv Primary to as many Briiv Secondaries as you like. 

This allows you to create zones in your home or office of connected Briiv’s which are controlled by your Briiv Primary.

All of your Briiv Secondaries will mirror everything your Briiv Primary does. This is perfect for a larger room/ open plan office or adjoining rooms on a single floor of a house.

With unlimited scalability you can add additional Briiv Primaries into the mix to create multiple zones that cover your entire home.

What’s The Difference Between Briiv Pro Primary And Briiv Pro Secondary?

How Efficient Is Briiv Pro?

Briiv will improve the air quality in a 9m² (96ft²) living space in just 11 minutes or a 16m² (172ft²) space in 21 minutes. 

For a larger space, link a Briiv Pro Secondary for optimum results. 

Below are some real world tests carried out in a larger, heavily polluted room, tracking the PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations. Both have a control test which had no air cleaning (the grey line) and with a Briiv Pro running (yellow and green lines) over a 2 hour period.

The yellow and green lines are with Briiv Pro active and show a significant reduction in dangerous particles compared to the control test. 

Development And Testing

In total we have spent two years working on this next version of Briiv, building on the original design and incorporating the latest technology in the air sensor market. The full filter was modelled and tested at every stage using the ISO 29463-5:2011 standard as a basis for testing and evaluating with sensitive air monitors.

Smoke Testing

 

Watch how Briiv Pro clears the air! We created this smoke test, using an “off the shelf” smoke pellet that releases approximately 18 cubic meters of smoke to fully saturate the environment. Briiv is then turned on remotely to clear the air in the tank and shows the complete removal of the smoke after 3 and a half minutes

The graph above show the reduction in a 216 litre chamber over 4 mins with an initial highly unsafe volume of PM2.5 fine particulate. The number of particles quickly reduced to safe levels in 3 minutes and to zero in 4 minutes. 

We also conducted multiple industry standard tests. The direct flow testing method measures the reduction of particulate in one pass, under a simulated environment with a constant supply of test particulate entering the device over a set period of time. 

The full test report can be downloaded from our website HERE

External testing

Tested externally to EN1822-5:2009 With a pass, and efficiency of 88% of PM2.5 and below in laboratory conditions. 

Full external test reports can be seen HERE 

London Design Show Sensor Testing

https://youtu.be/oTvdV38z3KE?si=w2b2_ryH9vbFs5dR

Above is some real time testing that we demonstrated with our working prototype while at the London Design Show last month.  

This Isn’t Our First Rodeo!

We’ve taken years of testing and customer feedback, building on the tried and tested technology that we have developed and patented.

We’ve taken that feedback and introduced improved airflow, smart sensors and new filter materials to make Briiv Pro the most advanced plant powered air filter that we know will create a safer home for you and your family.

See what some of our customers have to say about our original Briiv below! 

Specifications

Power: – 5w, 5v, 1amp 
Air volume: 1.9 CMM (68 CFM) 
Maximum Effective Range: – 4m diameter 
Sensor Detection: – PM2.5, PM10, VOC’s, Carbon Monoxide. 
Materials: – Glass, Bio-Plastic, Moss, Hemp fiber.
Dimensions: 160mm (6.3″) x 160mm (6.3″) x 235mm (9.2″)
Weight: 1.2Kg (2.6 lbs)

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Timeline 

Our plan for delivery. We’ve been through this process before and have an established network for production and delivery.

We have also worked in some “things going wrong time” into this schedule, to account for any delays there may be. But we have a very advanced working sample of Briiv Pro and are ready for manufacturing the tooling, the electronics have been designed and we have working firmware, the app still needs some functions adding but we have a working and tested system for that to operate on. 

Production Begins!

Say hello to the copper electrode that will form the base tool for Briiv Pro!

Here’s a close up of the tool for the filter housing.

Here is our very first pre-production run for the Briiv Pro bio-plastic components!

The Problem With Current Filters

15,000,000 air filters were purchased in 2019 and the actual filters needs to be replaced every 6-8 months.

There is a better way. Briiv Pro is an innovative, natural product designed to be just as effective at cleaning the air you breathe, with a much lower environmental impact.


Rethinking Plastic

Consumer electronics are all made from oil based plastics that pollute the Earth for future generations. 

We believe this is fundamentally wrong and with your help, we intend to change this.

Instead of opting for oil-based plastics, Briiv uses a new bio-plastic derived from rice husks which is a waste by product from agricultural crops. This crop captures carbon in the process and locks it into the product.

We use less plastics than any other filter on the market, switching them for materials that biodegrade or can be recycled infinitely, such as glass.    

Only the electrical components and the Nano Matrix Filter are left that we have not been able to switch. We are working constantly to replace these in the future with more sustainable alternatives when technology allows us to do so in a safe way.   

Our Commitment To Circular Design

Having spent many years in the design industry, we have seen hundreds of products marketed as “sustainable” that in reality, usually due to economic decisions, fall very short of the promises they claim. 

We were fed up with sustainability being treated as an afterthought in design. 

So, our commitment is to the circular design process. Simply put, this is where products are designed with the end of the product’s life in mind. This approach removes a lot of conventional material options. 

Our approach has changed over the years where we used to put biodegradability above all else, but since most countries are still incinerating most recyclable or biodegradable waste we wanted to work harder and become more circular in our approach.  

So what dose that mean?

Send back Briiv to us when you don’t want it anymore and we will turn it into a new Briiv, so it can continue its life somewhere else. This is our commitment to kickstarting a more circular practice with consumer electronics. 

Removing Designed Obsolescence

Because we want to completely remove planned obsolescence, we have made Briiv in a way that it can be dismantled and serviced or any parts that age or break accidentally over time can be repaired with ease. So, you can keep your Briiv running far into the future. 

Made In The UK

By making Briiv here in the UK we can oversee every component that goes into each unit and have much stricter quality control. As we build each one in house, we don’t have to travel to factories and suppliers to perform quality inspections on the final product.

Who Are We?

We are a growing team of designers, engineers and friends (plus one dog) with a love of cutting-edge design, dedicated to doing good work and delivering quality products that make a difference.

We overcame a lot of challenges early on, with everything from microchip shortages and shipping issues, to app problems and PCB redesigns! But with the support of our backers we were able to persevere and build an amazing team of like minded people that are passionate about everything Briiv. 

Fast forward two years and we’re now an established B Corp, with our sights set on changing an entire industry for the better and we’d love to have you along for the ride!

Support Us And Help Save The Planet

By investing in Briiv, you’re investing in a company that’s passionate about sustainable design. Our mission is to be the UK’s leading truly circular consumer technology brand by 2030. 

By supporting us, you’re helping change the world we live in for the better, for us and for future generations.

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