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Yeah another use case is broadcasting air quality metrics for consumption by the Health app, to start capturing exposure to various air environments you spend a
by npunt 5y ago
Yeah another use case is broadcasting air quality metrics for consumption by the Health app, to start capturing exposure to various air environments you spend a lot of time in (office being primary example). I talk about this air quality broadcast a bit toward the end of my piece on repositioning HomePod around air quality - https://nickpunt.com/blog/apples-next-homepod-should-monitor-indoor-air-quality/ https://nickpunt.com/blog/apples-next-homepod-should-monitor...
- astrange 5y agoHealth doesn't track air quality, but HomeKit does, and I believe it already has a mesh protocol (Thread) though I don't know how it works.
- npunt 5y agoUnfortunately Health doesn't yet store air quality, but I spelled out how air quality scores might be designed in the article. To the user it would be something akin to Fitness apps three rings but for different aspects of air quality: Safe, Fresh, and Comfortable. Within each would be specific air quality metrics (pm2.5, pm10, co, co2, vocs, temp/humidity, etc), which would sum up into three different scores for the three aspects. These would drive recommendations to the user. I don't have an opinion on what protocol would work best, just that it needs to be localized pretty well to match up with the localization of air quality. My hunch is UWB is a better fit for that.