The idea started while Tibor was doing his bachelor project to look at the impact of cleaning on air quality. This resulted in a genuine curiosity to look deeper into air quality and its implications for people’s health and performance. The following semester, he met Felix in the Minor Entrepreneurship at the University of Amsterdam, where he shared his insights. As a result, Felix remembered the time he spent during his first and second year in one particular lecture room where people fell asleep during lectures, attendance rates dropped, and as a result, they performed poorly at their tests. The following year, the university installed a ventilation system. An instant change was visible in the student interaction and performance on the exam: people paid more attention to the lectures, a higher attendance rate, and there were fewer people taking resits. The cause? Improved indoor air quality. This led to the belief that bad indoor air quality is a problem in many buildings where people need to focus, such as offices, governmental buildings and schools.
“Clairify makes an invisible problem visible with the development of smart IoT sensors and software to provide the right insights into the effects of indoor air quality and climate on people. Because good data and insightful analysis of the impact can provide you with the knowledge to act: from improving cleaning practices to steering ventilation based on indoor air pollution,” says Tibor Casteleijn, Co-founder and product developer at Clairify.