Air Renewal Review

Renew: Introduction

• Guy: Air purifier
• Range: up to 525 square feet / 49 m2
• Filters: HEPA H13 and activated carbon

The planes, one of the main lights in the quality of the inner air and the monitoring of radons, the covers of the entrances of last year were renewed; Your first smart air purifier.

Airthings Renew represents a new area for the Norwegian brand, which previously only monitored air quality with the tastes of View Plus and Wave Mini, so it is a bold step to start offering clean air too, although a natural progression.

Renovation is an elegant intelligent air purifier that aims not only to improve air quality but also provide better sleep conditions; Its manufacturers claim that it is perfectly suitable for a bedroom.

It has a 4-stage HEPA-13 filter and a high-performance carbon filter, renewal eliminates 99.97% of particles, gases and smells, and is able to purify the air in a typical room in 10 minutes.

With a price of $ 399.99, Airtrings renewal is on the most expensive side of air purifiers with their range. You will get cheaper options from people like Dreo and Welov.

Yes, it is about half the price of high -end rivals, such as Dyson Big+Formaldehyde Silent or the Molekule Air Pro, but it is also able to handle half of the area … so they are a decent comparison of pound by pound.

Keep reading to see how you worked in the tests …

Design and components

• 41 x 41 x 17 cm
• 5.4 kg
• Multiple placement options

One of the greatest strengths of Airthings Renew is its elegant and thin design.

Unlike the most bulky options such as the mentioned Dyson purifier mentioned Big+Silent Formaldehyde or the Molekule Air Pro, this purifier is much more discreet; It even has a fabric handle so you can take it from one room to another.

It is miles of better aspect than the lowest -price air purifiers, which often resemble fans of the 1990 decade.

Its rectangular shape and its tone outside means The box if you want to do this.

However, it will have to allow around 8 inches of space on the cloth covered side, so that the air flows.

Up, you will find a small control panel that presents small backlit buttons for feeding, auto, impulse and sleep modes, as well as fan speed settings (1-5), which are very well indicated with a gradient style light .

Annoying, there is no way of seeing detailed air reading data in the device itself, it is limited to a green, amber or red LED light system, which sits next to an LED for the Wi-Fi state, and another that warns you when you need to change the filter.

The side panel filtration system allows easy filter changes for hepa and carbon variants, although it does not obtain a warning when to do this in the application, so monitor that light on the device.

Airthings suggests that you change them every 6 months or so, that, at $ 70 for pop, it will be a fairly expensive commitment.

On the one hand there is a good cable-hindy system, so you don’t have to have exhibition cables.

Configuration and application

• 2.4GHZ Wi-Fi only
• There is no smart home ecosystem support

Configuration Airthings Renew Up is a refreshing and refreshing issue. The Airthings application is connected to your phone, initially through Bluetooth before asking you to enter your home’s Wi-Fi details. There are only 2.4GHz, so it is possible that 5GHz should disable in its router if you experience any synchronization problem.

The AIRTHINGS application provides complete control, including mode selection and energy alternatives, although surprisingly, there are no programming functions.

It is the same application that is used for the range of air quality monitors. From the application, you can see the current state of air quality and dive to see the sensor readings, with historical graphics. If you still do not have an air account, you must create one.

The application, such as LED lights in renewal itself, uses green, yellow or red indicators, depending on the amount of PM2.5 in the air. The green indicates that the air quality is good (less than 10 µg/m3), yellow means fair (10-25 µg/m3) and red means poor (more than 25 µg/m3) and will obtain some pleasant graphics that They show the real readings.

You can configure it to give warnings when the PM2.5 level reaches a certain level through notifications.

What you will not get are more data. It does not provide information about other air pollutants such as CO2 (carbon dioxide), NO2 (nitrogen dioxide), PM10 (particles up to 10 microns of size, including dust, mold and pollen) or voc (volatile organic compounds)

Also, something incredibly, there is no intelligent support for the home ecosystem. No Alexa, no homekit, no Google Home, it doesn’t matter. There are Iftt but, come on, it’s not 2017.

The “Insights” section of the application provides a five -day pollen prognosis depending on the location, color encoded similarly to the PM2.5 indicator. While it is useful, it does not compensate for the lack of detailed detailed air data from the purifier and there is also no information on the outdoor pollution level, as is common in the rivals.

Performance

Authings states that Renew eliminates 99.97% of harmful pollutants (0.3 microns and larger) and has a CAD (clean air supply rate) of 140 CFM (cubic feet per minute).

It is suitable for rooms at 525 square feet or less, where the air will change twice in an hour.

The performance is quite impressive, with the renewal of response quickly to the pollutants in the air.

In the tests, my pre-contaminated kitchen cleared, full of bleach, cleaning spray and cooking fumes, from red (poor air quality) to green (good air quality) in less than 10 minutes.

But you have to do everything manually, since there is no programming, as mentioned. With air purifiers, I like to leave them in ‘automatic’ mode most of the time, but it changes to a more intense configuration for an early hour in the morning, but I have a quiet ‘sleep’ way.

Automatic and sleep modes are offered with renewal, but you will have to change manually between them, using the buttons above or through the application.

While a little more slow than the Dyson Big+Quiet, it is also a fraction of the size and cost

The unit works relatively silent, reaching its maximum point at 52.9 dB in impulse mode in my tests.

Final thoughts

Airtring renewal becomes a lot of good: it is well designed, easy to use and purify the air effectively.

However, to $ 399.99, the lack of intelligent integration in the home, limited ideas of air quality and missing programming difficulty make it completely recommend to competitors with sets of stronger characteristics.

If you value aesthetics and simplicity on deep data ideas, it is a solid choice, but for a truly intelligent air purifier, you may want to look elsewhere.

How do we try

When we publish our reviews, they may be sure they are the result of “living” with long -term tests.

Air purifiers generally live inside an ecosystem, or a range of products that, supposedly, everything operates in harmony. And are designed to offer a range of different options. Therefore, it is impossible to use a machine for a week and broadcast a verdict.

Because we are testing a smart home kit all day, every day, we know what matters and how an intelligent cleaning machine is compared to alternatives that could also be considering.

Our reviews are integral, objective and fair and, of course, we are never paid directly to check a device.

Read our guide on how we try to learn more.

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