I want to know what I breathe in every day and how it affects my health.

Health and fitness play an important role in my life. Out of personal interest, and because no good solutions were available, I developed an idea in 2015 for how air parameters could be determined simply and precisely. Building the first version of the air-Q was greatly helped by my more than 10 years of experience in fundamental research and the development of new sensor technologies at Chemnitz University of Technology. Even so, today’s air-Q barely resembles that first version. The device is now significantly smaller and can do far more.

Everyone should know their own air quality, so they can decide for themselves.

Air is our most essential resource — we consume it 24 hours a day, for our entire lives. Everyone has completely individual conditions wherever they live and breathe. That’s why we want to give everyone the ability to determine the composition and quality of their own air. It’s also a lot of fun to track the data and investigate the causes. With the air-Q, everyone gets their own little lab.