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Airthings app: how to understand your sensor readings

Learn about AirGlimpse and how to interpret the graphs

Updated over a week ago

There are 2 main ways you can see an overview of your sensor readings:

  1. AirGlimpse

  2. Graphs

AirGlimpse

On the main Devices screen, you can view the monitors that are paired to your account. By selecting the expand button for a monitor, you will see an overview of your readings indicated by the AirGlimpse bars.

AirGlimpse will change color depending on the status of the sensor according to the sensor thresholds: Green (Good), Orange (Fair), and Red (Poor).

The two dots inside the AirGlimpse bars indicate the sensor thresholds. For example, the AirGlimpse for humidity is showing as green since 24% is not within the recommended guidelines, while VOC is showing as green here since 137ppb is in the recommended level:

🌟 Hint! You can adjust the views of AirGlimpse by selecting different periods of time at the top of the screen.

To dive into more detail, select any sensor to view the graphs!

Graphs

View your sensor data over different periods of time! At the top of the graphs screen, you can select to view your data in the following ways:

  • 3 hrs: shows the timestamp of individual sensor readings

  • 24 hrs: each data point is expressed as a 1 hr average

  • 7 days: each data point is expressed as a 4 hr average

  • 30 days: each data point is expressed as a 24 hr average

  • 365 days: each data point is expressed as a week average

Once you are viewing one of the graphs, you can scroll back in time to view past measurements. Here is an example of a CO2 sensor in the 3 hr graph view - the graph shows a 3 hour timespan, and the information under the graph indicates the timestamp of the CO2 sensor reading. The CO2 was 539.6ppm.

View your sensor data over different periods of time! At the top of the graphs screen, you can select to view your data in the following ways: Each time period uses specific averaging methods to present the data in a clear and meaningful way, helping users analyze trends and understand their air quality over time.

  • 3 hrs: shows the timestamp of individual sensor readings

  • 24 hrs: each data point is expressed as a 1 hr average

  • 7 days: each data point is expressed as a 4 hr average

  • 30 days: each data point is expressed as a 24 hr average

  • 365 days: each data point is expressed as a week average Longer time periods display smoothed averages, which may reduce the visibility of peaks or extreme values. For more detailed data, it is recommended to use the Airthings Dashboard online.

For advanced graph settings, scroll below any graph to adjust your preferences:

  1. Show/hide the sensor threshold lines

  2. Show/hide the min/max shadowing behind averaged values

  3. Keep the colored trend lines or remove them for a neutral blue line

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