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Comfortable, breathable and not wasteful: the climate of a home office.
Smart plugs, standby power, air quality, temperature and heating: keeping a home office comfortable and running without wasting energy.
A home office runs all day, so the small things add up: a monitor and dock on standby, a heater on a timer, a window that stays shut because it is cold outside. This category covers energy use, power and indoor climate in the room where you work.
On the energy side that means smart plugs and energy monitors, standby consumption, and what a device draws according to its own specification. On the climate side it means CO2, temperature, humidity and air quality, the sensors that measure them, and what a reading does and does not tell you.
We keep to what can be measured or looked up, and we say which measurement a recommendation is based on.
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The number on a CO2 meter is a ventilation gauge, not a toxicity reading. Where the 1,000 ppm figure came from, why the research on concentration disagrees with itself, and why a home office is the worst-ventilated room in the building.
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