About FutureAir
FutureAir makes design-forward sensing technology
for healthier buildings and a cleaner planet.
Indoor air pollution is an invisible problem.
We spend over 90% of our time indoors where air
is often worse than outside.
FutureAir’s Product
SAM™ – a Smart Air Manager that captures, analyzes, and improves
indoor air quality with real-time data that can activate air systems
to improve health outcomes and energy efficiency.
With embedded sensors, data analytics, machine learning and API’s,
SAM™ can activate connected devices (air purifiers, air conditioners, humidifiers) and HVAC systems to improve indoor air.
SAM™ measures pollutants often found indoors:
Carbon Dioxide (CO2 ppm) – human breath
Particulate Matter (PM 1 to 2.5 to 10ug/m3) – dust/particles
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs ppb) – gasses
FutureAir is solving an invisible problem that can make us sick - pollutants in air we breathe indoors.
Simone Rothman
Founder & CEO
Luxury Entrepreneur, Global Brand & Market Builder. Driven by the belief that design, at the intersection of science and technology, can positively impact the environment, Simone founded FutureAir to bring awareness and solutions to the invisible problem of indoor air pollution.
Ross Lovegrove
Founder & CCO
Industrial Designer, Futurist, Pioneer in Biomimicry. Winner of numerous international awards, Ross has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including MoMA, Guggenheim, AxisCentre Japan, Pompidou Centre and London Design Museum.
Jun Shimada
Founder & CTO
Ph.D, Inventor, Tech Entrepreneur, Utilities & IoT expert. Jun’s experience as former CEO and current CTO of ThinkEco, includes finance, fund-raising, customer acquisition & retention, strategy, execution, supply chain management, technology R&D, and product design.
Simone Rothman
Founder & CEO
Luxury Entrepreneur, Global Brand & Market Builder. Driven by the belief that design, at the intersection of science and technology, can positively impact the environment, Simone founded FutureAir to bring awareness and solutions to the invisible problem of indoor air pollution.
Ross Lovegrove
Founder & CEO
Industrial Designer, Futurist, Pioneer in Biomimicry. Winner of numerous international awards, Ross has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including MoMA, Guggenheim, AxisCentre Japan, Pompidou Centre and London Design Museum.
Jun Shimada
Founder & CTO
Ph.D, Inventor, Tech Entrepreneur, Utilities & IoT expert. Jun’s experience as former CEO and current CTO of ThinkEco, includes finance, fund-raising, customer acquisition & retention, strategy, execution, supply chain management, technology R&D, and product design.
Peter Mayer,
PhD
Product Development Lead
Peter’s experience leading product development, including hardware and firmware, third-party hardware platform integration, product life cycle management are unmatched. Peter brings an exceptionally seamless coordination of hardware and software..
Design Philosophy
As co-founder of FutureAir, the inspiration for the design of SAM™ has remained within the realm of nature’s logic and purpose which has been at the very core of my work since I began. It’s interesting to see how such subtle complexity can relate so intuitively to all manner of interior spaces and architecture without being so minimalist it disappears.
How to harness and capture the spirit of a product that is so important in expressing its function whilst also embodying the beauty we find in intelligent natural forms?
The challenge was to define a new and modest aesthetic that has a ‘thereness’ and quietude like air itself whilst respecting the need to imbue all new contemporary products we design within our time with an ecologic respect so that we live and create by example.
– Ross Lovegrove
WELL™, LEED™ and RESET™ have set indoor air quality standards that FutureAir delivers.
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