Foobot
From £ 169.99, logitech.com
WHERE TO USE IT Any home, no matter whether you’re living in a busy city or in a country home in the middle of nowhere. It should be placed in a central location at about head height. WHAT it does The air we breathe should be as clean as possible – the health benefits are pretty obvious – but according to the makers of Foobot, the air inside our homes is about five times as polluted as the air outside. What you can do about it? Foobot measures indoor air and alerts you to any anomalies, such as excessive humidity, or lots of toxins or particles in the air. When Foobot is blue, the air is good, when it’s orange something is wrong, enabling you to act – whether it’s simply opening a window to let your house breathe, or giving your house a thorough dust and vacuum. WHAT IT works with Amazon Alexa, Nest, Ecobee, Honeywell, LUX now supercharge it! Sign up to IFTTT (ifttt.com) and if you have a Bluair Sense+ air purifier in your home, you can get it to kick in when Foobot detects high amounts of air pollution. ALTER NATI VELY … dyson Pure hot + cool link £499, dyson.co.uk Dyson’s connected air purifier takes Foobot’s abilities to the next level, not only measuring air quality but pro-actively purifying the air of particles as small as 0.1 microns as soon as it detects pollution. It also keeps you cool in the summer and heats your home in the winter.