Axis Communications has announced the company’s first environmental sensors, which monitor multiple indoor air quality parameters.

This enables efficient and appropriate response to indoor air quality issues, including vaping and smoking, and the proactive management and optimisation of air quality in almost any indoor environment. 

The World Health Organisation estimates that each year 3.2 million deaths are caused by indoor air pollution worldwide. Axis two new sensors, both developed in-house, seamlessly integrate with existing Axis solutions to monitor air pollutants such as particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides, and carbon dioxide, in addition to measuring relative humidity and temperature.  

“Poor indoor air quality is a significant public health issue,” says Robert Woyar, Global Product Manager at Axis Communications. “Student vaping has reached epidemic levels within schools and needs to be detected and restricted effectively. Certain specific facilities, for example, data centres and controlled manufacturing environments, require precise control of air quality parameters, such as relative humidity, temperature, and the level of particulate matter.

“Our new indoor air quality sensor supports in all these areas and more.” 

AXIS D6210 Air Quality Sensor and AXIS D6310 Air Quality Sensor

• AXIS D6210, available in the first half of 2025, can be integrated with certain other Axis IP devices, including a number of cameras and a strobe siren and used in combination with Axis speakers. It is easily connected to compatible Axis IP devices without the need for additional IP addresses, switch ports, or power to give customers a cost effective, “plug-and-play” solution to air quality monitoring and response.
• AXIS D6310, available by the end of 2025, has the same air quality sensing capabilities as AXIS D6210 but is a standalone IP network device – and can therefore be added independently to an existing Axis solution – with additional functionality. This includes a multi-LED strobe function for sensor status and alerts, an integrated speaker and microphone, Power-over-Ethernet (PoE)-out, a passive infrared (PIR) sensor, and AXIS Audio Analytics.

Improved health and safety, operational efficiency, and business intelligence 

Depending on the environment and use case, AXIS D6210 and AXIS D6310 will help to create a healthy and safe environment for employees and visitors, improve operational efficiency and energy consumption and create data which delivers business intelligence to further support long-term operational planning. 

For instance, real-time indoor air quality monitoring enables immediate response to air quality issues that might present a health issue. Alerts from the sensor, along with live and prerecorded messages from IP speakers can clear specific areas of buildings until remedial action to improve air quality has been taken.

Insight into specific air quality parameters – such as temperature, relative humidity, and air pollutants – supports more precise management of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, with the added benefit of improved energy efficiency. 

Over time, metadata created by the indoor air quality sensor, combined with other sensor data such as occupancy levels, will provide business intelligence for longer-term ‘smart building’ planning and optimisation. 

Robert Woyar concludes: “AXIS D6210 and AXIS D6310 Air Quality Sensors might be our first environmental sensors but won’t be the last. The potential for connecting data from multiple different sensors in health and safety, operational efficiency and business intelligence is obvious and almost unlimited. Our growing portfolio of IP devices, combined with the open Axis platform and innovative applications from our global partners will deliver ever-increasing value to customers.” 

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