The state of the world was changed in the early months of 2020 when the pandemic started to spread across the globe. When news started spreading that COVID-19 was an airborne virus, raising alarms in major cities and prompting leaders to put communities into a lockdown. Although the public’s major concern was the outdoor air, many overlooked the possibility of indoor air pollution.
Carl Tautenhahn, co-founder and CEO of VizAeras, realized that there was a lack of solutions for the quality of air indoors. Last year, California governor Gavin Newsom signed a law that required indoor air quality monitors to measure CO2 levels in every classroom. The decision has influenced other states to consider similar mandates for real locations and other public indoor spaces. Looking to help the cause, Tautenhahn and his brother at VizAeras decided to create a solution.
The company launched a campaign on StartEngine to fund an indoor environmental quality (IEQ) product that can help bring more transparency, awareness, and access to healthier building conditions. The product is set to help create safer, healthier, and more productive spaces for those who occupy them. Recently, VizAeras won the Best IoT Indoor Air Quality Monitor Award at the annual IMPACT 21 Digital Marketing Conference.
VizAeras, which translates to “Visual Air” uses a patent-pending platform technology that allows people to “visualize” the healthy condition of a building before entering. Armed with state-of-the-art monitoring capabilities, helping students, parents, and employees identify and measure harmful indoor pollution levels.
“Because we spend 90% of our time indoors and take about 20,000 breaths per day, what we breathe really matters,” explained Tautenhahn regarding VizAeras’ purpose. “But most schools, parents, and employers don’t realize how critical it is to measure indoor pollution levels as it truly affects our health, well-being, personal productivity, test scores, and even business profits.”
Indôr is the name of the product that VizAeras developed. Its unique approach to IEQ not only provides households and business operators with the ability to monitor, track, and share access to healthy building conditions with occupants but to also respond to any potentially harmful indoor conditions in real-time to keep loved ones, employees, students, and customers safe, productive, and healthy.
What makes indôr such a unique product is its ability to analyse with state-of-the-art technology, setting it apart from other similar products. Additionally, it is the only indoor air quality or IEQ device on the market that allows for simple remote monitoring and quick-scan QR code access for commercial buildings. Indôr also has an easy-to-use share and app feature, allowing users to easily monitor and track indoor pollution exposure at frequent or favorite locations. The product provides the necessary tools to detect dangerous pollutants and take action to remedy before occupants fall ill and become less productive.
“There has never been a greater need for the ability to easily monitor, access, share, compare, and promote healthy indoor environments for our homes, classrooms, and commercial buildings from any device in real-time,” said Tautenhahn.
As the pandemic continues to loom over our heads, Carl and Gerald Tautenhahn and VizAeras hope to introduce indôr as a standard product in the market, implemented in every home and commercial building to help keep occupants safe and healthy. While Google mapped “The Great Outdoors”, VizAeras intends to map and track IEQ conditions for “The Great Indoors” where we live, work, learn, heal, pray, and play. More information about VizAeras can be found on its website here. You can also watch this YouTube video to learn more about the indôr product and support the brand’s crowdfunding efforts at StartEngine.
