Sensereo Airo has been named Best in Smart Home at the 2026 IFA Innovation Awards, marking an important milestone for our modular approach to indoor air quality monitoring and connected smart home technology.
At IFA Berlin 2026, we introduced Airo with a simple idea:
Indoor air monitoring should adapt to your home — and to what matters to you.
That idea became Airo: a modular indoor air monitoring system built around one Dock and multiple Pods. This recognition at the IFA Innovation Awards reflects Airo’s flexible approach to understanding indoor environments and giving users more control over what they monitor and where.
Meet Airo: A Modular Approach to Indoor Air Quality Monitoring
Most indoor air quality monitors combine multiple sensors into a single device.
Airo takes a different approach.
One Dock. Multiple Pods. Your air. Your way.
The Airo Dock serves as the center of the system, while individual Pods monitor:
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CO₂
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PM2.5
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TVOC
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Temperature & Humidity
Users can choose the sensors they need, add more over time, and place Pods where those measurements matter most.
Instead of a fixed monitor, Airo is designed as a flexible environmental sensing system that adapts to different rooms, homes and needs.
Why Airo Uses a Modular Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System
Air quality can vary throughout the home.
CO₂ may rise in a bedroom overnight. PM2.5 may change while cooking. TVOCs can be affected by cleaning products and everyday activities.
A traditional monitor only tells you what is happening where that single device is placed.
With Airo, different Pods can be placed where they matter most — from the bedroom and living room to a nursery or workspace.
You choose what to monitor and where to monitor it.
Turning Indoor Air Quality Data Into Useful Insights
More data doesn’t always mean better understanding.
That’s why Airo isn’t designed simply to show numbers. It’s designed to help you understand when something that matters changes in your indoor environment.
By turning environmental measurements into information that is easier to understand, Airo aims to make indoor air awareness more useful in everyday life.
Sense What Matters.
Airo: Matter over Thread Indoor Air Monitoring for the Smart Home
Airo is built around Matter over Thread, bringing environmental sensing into the connected smart home.
The Dock + Pods system provides the complete Airo experience, while compatible standalone Pods can also work within third-party Matter over Thread ecosystems with the required compatible Matter controller and Thread Border Router.
This gives users greater flexibility in how they build and expand their indoor environmental monitoring setup.
Sensereo Airo Wins Best in Smart Home at the 2026 IFA Innovation Awards
At IFA Berlin, visitors experienced Airo’s modular Dock + Pods concept and explored a new approach to indoor environmental sensing.
Being named Best in Smart Home at the 2026 IFA Innovation Awards is an important recognition of Airo’s vision: making indoor air monitoring more flexible, understandable and connected.
For Sensereo, the Airo IFA Innovation Award is an important milestone, but it is only the beginning.
As Airo moves toward its next launch phase, we’ll continue bringing this idea into more homes.
