The quality of the air inside our homes plays a much bigger role in our overall health and comfort than many people realize. Indoor air can contain a wide range of airborne pollutants, including allergens like dust, pollen, and pet dander, as well as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and greenhouse gases, which are often invisible and odorless. Air quality monitors can accurately track key factors like particulate matter, humidity, and chemical levels in real time, allowing homeowners to identify potential air quality problems early and take steps to address them—whether that means improving ventilation, adjusting humidity levels, or using air purifiers. However, most air quality monitors available today have limited capabilities when it comes to tracking specific air quality indicators. Enter Sensereo, a smart sensing solutions company that recently introduced its new modular smart air quality monitor, called Airo, at CES 2026, designed to intelligently understand air across your home and seamlessly adapt to the needs of each user.
WHO IS SENSEREO?
Sensereo is an environmental intelligence startup based in Shenzen, China that specializes in designing next-generation smart sensing solutions for safer, healthier, and smarter living. Founded in 2024 by Roy Chen and Zheng Liu, the company’s focus is on engineering excellence and in providing a seamless user experience, shaping a future where every home can sense, understand, and respond to its environment with intelligence.
Sensereo’s official logo
Sensereo’s products combine advanced sensors, a thoughtful design, and Matter over Thread smart home connectivity, delivering professional-grade performance in consumer-friendly devices. They were the first company worldwide to develop Matter over Thread smoke alarms, which are also certified to work with Apple Home and with Homey.
Sensereo is also a member of the CoGDEM (Council of Gas Detection and Environmental Monitoring), meaning their products are built to follow the EU’s fire safety regulation standards.
The company’s portfolio spans Matter-Thread sensing devices, certified fire safety alarms integrated with advanced IoT technology such as its MS-1 Smoke Alarm (launched in April, 2025) and its MSC-1 Combination Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (just launched), and more recently, modular AI air-quality monitors.
Sensereo recently unveiled its flagship product, the Airo, at CES 2026, the world’s first modular air quality monitor built on Matter (open standard for smart home and IoT devices) and Thread (an IPv6-based wireless networking protocol) for seamless universal smart home compatibility.
Sensereo’s modular air quality monitor, Airo, unveiled at CES 2026
During CES 2026, we had the opportunity to interview Sensereo’s co-founder and CEO, Roy Chen, and his co-founding partner, Zheng Liu, who mentioned that “We thought about developing smart home devices built on Matter over Thread after finding out there weren’t many reliable remote safety alert/alarm products available on the market that could be easily integrated with most popular smart home ecosystems.”
Sensereo’s co-founders Roy Chen and Zheng Liu at CES 2026
Zheng also talked about the technology behind Sensereo’s devices, explaining that: “Matter over Thread can essentially be divided into two parts, where Matter is the ecosystem part of our products, which enables for a simple integration into smart home ecosystems. Thread is the IoT technology part, which ensures stable, low-latency connections without requiring complex configurations. Homeowners can just turn on the device, mount it on the wall or the ceiling, and it’s ready to go.”
Zheng then talked about Sensereo’s new product, the Airo, noting that “Our new air quality monitor, the Airo, features a modular design that works based on replaceable sensor pods, which allow homeowners to monitor specific air parameters in the air indoors, depending on their personal needs. The concept of this design enables users to freely place the pods into different rooms, like if they want to monitor carbon dioxide in their workstation or monitor PM (particulate matter) in a work studio where they may have 3D printers or UV printers. All those pods are interconnected via Thread, meaning users can extend their environmental intelligence system by adding more types of air sensing parts (pods) into the system.”
Sensereo’s co-founder and CEO, Roy Chen, also shared his thoughts on the company’s new device, saying “The Airo represents a paradigm shift in air quality monitoring, putting control directly in the hands of consumers with technology that’s as adaptable as it is intelligent. By leveraging Matter and Thread, we’re not just monitoring air—we’re creating smarter, healthier spaces that grow with you.”
WHAT IS SENSEREO’S AIRO MODULAR AIR QUALITY MONITOR?
The Airo consists of a wireless, modular smart air quality system designed to continuously monitor and understand air across a user’s home by focusing on how air behaves over time while tracking each air parameter separately, allowing homeowners to make informed decisions.
At its core, the Airo leverages state-of-the-art “Dock + Pod” architecture, which allows users to mix and match replaceable sensor pods for monitoring individual air parameters.
Sensereo’s Airo Modular Air Quality Monitor
Its pods include a CO2 Pod that measures the carbon dioxide concentration in the air, a PM Pod that monitors fine dust/fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the air, a TVOC Pod that measures total volatile organic compounds (TVOCs), and a smaller TH Pod that monitors temperature and humidity. Professional sensor technology in each of its pods ensures precise measurement results.
Each pod connects wirelessly to a central dock, facilitating flexible placement, effortless data uploads, and easy upgrades as environmental needs evolve. This modular design ensures Airo adapts to any lifestyle, whether tracking pollutants in a single room or deploying pods across an entire home.
All of Airo’s smart sensing pods are battery-powered, with each boasting approximately 30 days of battery life.
The Airo also features a plug-and-play setup, offering homeowners a simple installation into any Matter-compatible smart home system.
The device also integrates with the Sensereo app, which gives users a clear overview of what is happening across their home, showing both real time conditions and long-term trends. The app also uses artificial intelligence to offer homeowners personalized air quality recommendations and predictive insights for indoor health.
WHAT ARE SENSEREO’S FUTURE PLANS FOR ITS AIRO MODULAR AIR QUALITY MONITOR?
Sensereo’s visit to CES 2026 gave the company greater exposure in the smart home consumer market, not only for its new modular air quality monitor, the Airo, but also for its other products.
The Airo will be available for pre-order through Kickstarter in the second quarter of 2026.
In addition to the four air sensing pods showcased with the Airo, Sensereo’s co-founder Zheng Liu also mentioned that the company is planning on launching more pods in the future with the aim of building up on the opportunity of environmental intelligence by detecting other types of air parameters in real consumer live cases— potentially designed for monitoring particular allergens, mold spores, or more specialized industrial gases. Based on the collected environmental data, Sensereo’s devices can prompt practical advice for consumers via AI on how to address air quality problems detected in their home.
According to Sensereo’s CEO, Roy Chen, the company is also exploring potential collaboration opportunities with other industry players such as smart home systems manufacturers. Sensereo’s goal is to be able to integrate the Airo with the smart home systems from said companies so that their air quality monitor can work with different smart home hubs and other smart home devices, allowing them to create a full solution and user-experience for consumers.
Additionally, Sensereo is also interested in working with companies specializing in AI technology terminals.
For more information on Sensereo, the Airo smart air quality monitor, and its other smart home devices, visit Sensereo’s website.