What’s the difference between Briiv and Briiv Pro? 🌱🌿
Whether you already own a Briiv or Briiv Pro is your first foray into the worlds’ most sustainable air filter, you might be wondering what all the fuss is about! Briiv began over four years ago with myself and my co-creator James wanting to develop a more sustainable option within the air filter market. We’ve come a long way from our original paint can prototype, and we’re still continuing to build and develop on our original ideas.
We’ve learned a lot in the past few years about what our customers want and need, and we wanted to make sure Briiv could evolve to meet these demands. In comes Briiv Pro! An upgraded version of the original Briiv, Briiv Pro boasts new and improved features including an AI powered air quality sensor, multi-unit connectivity, increased power and output, and brand new filter options.
Briiv gave us a solid foundation to build on, and has been an effective option for consumers looking for an economic and circular choice. Its simple design and natural materials made it an obvious choice for customers who value both clean living and sustainability. As consumer expectations grow and we’re able to push development, the new features featured on Briiv Pro seemed like the natural progression. Briiv Pro takes all the best bits of Briiv and elevates it to a whole new level.
So, what are the differences?
Briiv Pro is only 5mm taller than the original at 230mm tall with a diameter of 160mm, so the size difference is pretty negligible, but in that we’ve been able to increase the output of Briiv with a bigger fan and make it even more powerful.
We knew early on after releasing Briiv that we wanted to include an air quality sensor, and it was actually requested by a few of our customers! Briiv Pro has finally made this a reality with a built-in air monitor that delivers real-time feedback to your Briiv app. Briiv Pro automatically senses poor air quality and uses a unique AI driven algorithm to keep your home clean and your family healthy. For example, if you burn some toast Briiv will detect that and kick in to filter the air without you having to do anything!
Do you already have an original Briiv unit? Or perhaps you want to get a couple of Briiv Pros for your home? Your new Briiv Pro unit will be able to use its brand new air monitor to keep track of the air quality, and activate the other units creating your very own modular at home air system.
We're also incorporating a more intelligent filter health monitoring system that will be able to provide better accuracy with the filter health monitoring, so you'll know exactly how long to use your filters for to get optimum results.
Briiv Pro also has the option to add some essential oils to the air to give you that fresh, clean feeling. With a new essential oil diffuser Briiv can take all the unwanted stuff out of the air using the filters, and then you have the option to put some added freshness back in no matter what scent you're feeling!
Briiv Pro has involved a lot of research and testing, and with that has come the development of new filter options. From Yorkshire moss to activated charcoal, you can choose your filters depending on what you want Briiv to focus on. Be it pet dander and dust or strong odours, Briiv has you covered.
The evolution of Briiv is driven by our desire to offer our community a superior experience, while still delivering the sustainable ideals that we live and run the business by. Introducing a host of enhancements to Briiv means we can cater to a better connected consumer experience, and we can’t wait to have you along for the journey.
Which part of Briiv Pro are you most excited about?!
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Is there thread/matter or other smart home Integration available?
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What are the differences in power draw with the larger fan in the Briv Pro? Is the Briv Pro still low-powered via USB, using 5V?
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I second Sachins' question:
‘Is there thread/matter or other smart home Integration available?’
Also is it now a USB-C power connection?
Originally asked in another forum:
https://briiv.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/community/posts/13639039521437/comments/146897217378850 -
Hi Sachin Guruswamy and Russ Baldwin,
We're currently finalising our Alexa integration (our engineer's been working pretty tirelessly to get this up and running, and it'll be released soon!), but once that's done we'll be shifting focus to develop a home assist integration. These things can take time, but once we have that we'll start looking into thread/matter support.
Briiv Pro will have an internal connection now rather than a port on the unit with just the USB to power connection being accessible. Honestly, Briiv doesn't require a huge amount of power to work and reworking everything to accommodate a USB-C would probably be overkill! While we know Apple are making the shift to USB-C, and this often means other companies will gradually follow suit, we can't see a standard USB becoming obsolete any time soon!
If you have any other questions do let us know!
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Hey Megan,
The Briiv pro still utilises the same low power 5V USB connection! We've achieved this by using a much more efficient fan, so even though the power is the same the fan is larger and more powerful.
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Hello,
Thanks for your answer. I am curious on why Alexa was first preference.
And as of thread/matter. it requires hardware to have some low bandwidth network capabilities. So based on that can you share if the current hardware is capable of adding this feature in the future ?
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I am also very surprised that you went with a single platform, considering the effort involved, as almost all the big smart device platforms (Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung) now support Matter/Thread… so you could just support Matter/Thread and be compatible with all the major platforms?
Is this perhaps because the hardware cannot support Matter/Thread as Sachin enquired?
Many people already have an eco system of smart devices and they want a device which is compatible - hence the creation and the support of Matter/Thread by Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung and many others!
So if you are not going to support Matter/Thread out of the box then I think I may have to cancel my Briiv Pro order as I do not want another isolated system in addition to all my Matter compatible smart devices!
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Same here. I don't own a single alexa devices. I would prefer something that plays nice with Google Home or generic Matter/Thread Support
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Hey Russ Baldwin,
We answered Sachin Guruswamy over on Kickstarter, and I think Sean said it best so I'll pop his response below for you!
We are working on integrating our current setup with Matter. It’s not a straight forward integration, but the hardware we currently have (The physical PCB Components) are compatible with it.
We developed Briiv for Alexa initially as there are no costs with working with the Alexa network, so we could experiment, test and have something working that offers a benefit to some people without overextending our limited resources.
Our Engineer Chris is currently putting some time in this week to fully test how well we can integrate the latest Briiv devices with matter. We are at the right point to be doing this as we are still working on the firmware and app side of Briiv.
Once we have done some tests, we will be able to say for sure if we can do it before the end of the campaign, so if it’s a deal breaker for you there is nothing lost.
I will let you know how the testing goes and provide more detailed information as we work on this. That being said, if there is anyone here in the Briiv community that has any prior experience with building on the matter system we would love to have your input!
Let us know if you have any other questions!
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