{"id":6604,"date":"2022-02-14T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/th\/?page_id=6604"},"modified":"2022-09-28T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T10:03:30","slug":"smart-air-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/th\/en\/about\/smart-air-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi there, I’m Thomas<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

In 2013, I was living in Beijing and needed an air purifier to fight the PM2.5. I went out to buy one only to find that purifier companies were charging crazy high prices for simple technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Ph.D. student, I didn’t have a lot of money and so I wondered, how these machines work. It only took an afternoon of research to find out that air purifiers are very simple. They mainly consist of a fan and filter. And if it’s that simple, I thought, I could easily build my own.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Hi there, I’m Thomas<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

In 2013, I was living in Beijing and needed an air purifier to fight the PM2.5. I went out to buy one only to find that purifier companies were charging crazy high prices for simple technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Ph.D. student, I didn’t have a lot of money and so I wondered, how these machines work. It only took an afternoon of research to find out that air purifiers are very simple. They mainly consist of a fan and filter. And if it’s that simple, I thought, I could easily build my own.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Air purifiers are just fans and filters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I bought a fan and a filter and strapped them together. Next, I got a particle counter to see if my DIY air purifier was able to remove the tiny PM2.5 particles, those that can deeply penetrate our lungs and cause severe health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I run dozens of tests in my bedroom and collected quite an amount of data which proved my $30 DIY air purifier to be working incredibly well.It was even able to keep up with those machines that cost up to 30 times more. See yourself.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A higher price doesn’t bring more clean air<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My DIY air purifiers (on the left) removed 84% of the tiny 0.5-micron particles, and 92% of the PM2.5 particles. This made it almost as efficient as the machines of the big brands. What struck me the most, however, is that large companies were charging a disproportionately high price for something that I cost me only 900 Baht.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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I shared my findings with the world<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s when I realized that air purifiers were totally overpriced. In fact, breathing clean air was only affordable for rich people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I wondered, isn\u2019t clean air a human right? Isn\u2019t clean air something everybody should be able to breathe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I decided to share my findings with the world. I set up a blog and hosted dozens of free workshops where I showed people how to build their own air purifiers for little money.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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The response was stunning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Word of the simple science behind clean air spread quickly. More and more people reached out to me asking me where I bought my filter and fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I set up an online store where I made the materials I used available. Within the next 18 months, we\u2019ve shipped more than 15,000 of these simple and affordable DIY air purifiers across China.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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That’s when Smart Air was born!<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Helping people getting more clean air<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today, we\u2019re a small social enterprise with 7 offices across Asia. The work we do and profits we make don\u2019t go into some rich investor\u2019s pockets, but helps more people across the world breathe clean air.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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