Awair Element Indoor Air Quality Monitor – AQM8002A

The Awair is easy to use, hook up, reset, understand app results, but accuracy? I have doubt 4 out of the 5 sensors it has are dead on accurate. Temperature, humidity, CO, particulate matter. You can also trust it to inform you of events that are taking place you may not know about. But in terms of the Total VOC measurement, all I trust it for is to tell me when levels are increasing or decreasing. In terms of what they are and whether levels are safe, I think it’s useless. There are a lot of studies out there backing up the claim that total VOC level measurements are useless without a breakdown of VOC sources to go with it. And that is exactly what you get with the Awair reading. It is not portable and has to be recalibrated if you want to use it to look for VOC sources. Also, I’ve read you may have to let it sit and calibrate VOC’s for a month or more in one spot if you want to be able to trust any reading you get. So my advise is buy it for the other 4 sensors and only trust the green light to tell you things are good.