IKEA continues to bet on connected products to offer smart home solutions, one of his biggest bets in recent years. In this case, they have decided to expand the range of devices focused on air quality, such as their various purifiers, as well as different lighting elements that can become an almost necessary complement.
We show you Vindstyrka and Stankregn, two products focused on the smart and connected home that IKEA proposes for the future. Discover them with us, we take a look at how they work and the performance they are capable of offering in combination with other elements in their catalogue.
Vindstyrka, a base for your air purifiers
This new sensor comes to replace the previous model, Vindriktning, which lacked a screen to offer us a quick look at the environmental conditions of our home. As it is, this new model is capable of measuring air quality, controlling harmful particles (PM2.5), temperature, relative humidity and even total volatile organic compounds (tVOC) present in your home.
It is made of white plastic, and has the USB-C port on the back, while the upper part has the only two configuration buttons. In total its dimensions are 52x59x87 mm, while the weight will not be a relevant problem.
As a negative point, Although it is true that it includes a USB-C port for the connection, The other end of the cable that comes with the product is USB-A, although this will not prevent us from using a pure USB-C cable, as soon as we receive the device we will be forced to use a traditional charger. At this point, we remember that IKEA sells its own 5W chargers, more than enough and plenty for this peculiar device.
The front screen will offer us a color code about the air quality (PM2.5), the temperature of the room and the relative humidity.
We can synchronize it through the IKEA IOT system to the air purifier Starkvind, so with a more accurate air measurement, the performance of your air purifiers will be better controlled, which we have analyzed here, in Actualidad Gadget. For this, it is necessary to have the Dirigera HUB, and therefore, we can have access to environmental and air quality information also directly through the application IKEA Home, available completely free of charge for both iOS as if to Android.
This air quality sensor is now available at your nearest IKEA center, or through its website, at a price of €39,99, which is very competitive, especially if we have the IKEA HUB or the rest of the connected devices of the Swedish brand.
Stankregn, to see you better
Light rings are becoming popular almost to the extreme, working from home, video calls and even vlogging They have made them become a relatively necessary product and that also allows us to save on energy consumption, since they are aimed solely and exclusively at illuminating what we need, saving the rest of the lighting in the room.
Thus, Stankregn is a ring of light It has regulation of light intensity and tonality. With an extremely simple operation, we only need to connect it to a port USB-C, while on the back it has two haptic buttons, which will allow us to regulate both between the three lighting tones (from cold to warm), and the three intensities, to better adapt to the needs of each user.
- Luminous flux: 55 lm
- Life time: 25.000 hours
It has a comfortable support to place it in the upper part of our monitor, as well as a small indentation so as not to cover the webcam, if it is located in the center of the screen, an ingenious solution. It can be disassembled relatively easily to ensure its storage in small spaces.
You can buy it from now on the IKEA website, or in their physical centers, at an interesting price of 9,99 euros.