Business virus risk

How does airborne virus spread indoors?

Airborne viruses spread indoors through microscopic droplets that can linger in the air for hours and travel through a building's ventilation.

Three environmental conditions amplify or reduce that risk: humidity (which affects how long viruses survive in the air), temperature (which affects how well immune defenses work), and the ratio of ventilation to occupancy (which determines how concentrated the shared air becomes).

Built for facility mangers

Save time

→ Get a quick overview of your entire portfolio from anywhere

→ Prioritize worst-performing spaces first

→ Generate compliance reports in minutes, not hours

Stay ahead of problems

→ Real-time alerts when conditions exceed thresholds

→ Use trend data to predict and prevent issues

→ Fix problems before they become complaints

Seamless integration

→ Connect to your BMS for automated HVAC optimization
→ Receive alerts in Slack, Teams, or email
→ API access for custom dashboards and analytics

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→ Long battery life means minimal maintenance
→ Scale easily as your portfolio grows

What do the risk levels mean?

The Airthings Virus Risk Indicator combines these signals into a single 1–10 score
so you can see where conditions favor transmission and act before it spreads.

1-4

Status: This is normal
Conditions don't favor airborne transmission

Recommended action
Maintain current ventilation, occupancy, and humidity

5-7

Status: Take action
One or more factors are pushing risk upward

Recommended action
Follow the dashboard's tailored suggestions to lower the score

8-10

Status: Warning
Conditions strongly favor transmission

Recommended action
Act immediately: ventilate, reduce occupancy, adjust humidity

Understand your risk

See elevated virus risk areas across your building by floor, room, or time.

Take targeted action

Identify key risk drivers to take precise, cause-based action.

Set custom alerts

Get instant notifications when risk scores exceed your set thresholds.

FACTOR 1

Virus survival

How long airborne microdroplets remain viable in the air. Survival times shift dramatically with humidity and temperature. Viruses live longer in cold, dry air than in warm, moderately humid conditions.

FACTOR 2

Ventilation

How much fresh outdoor air is diluting the indoor air. Higher ventilation rates remove contaminated air faster; recirculation without filtration just moves the same air around.

FACTOR 3

Room occupancy

How many people are sharing the air, and how densely. More occupants in a fixed volume means more shared exhaled air and a higher concentration of any airborne pathogens being released.

FACTOR 4

Immune system

How well the body's airway barriers function in current conditions. Low humidity and cold air reduce mucus barrier function, making infection more likely even at the same airborne dose.

Understand which spaces are at risk

By monitoring the four factors continuously, you see which areas in your building have elevated airborne transmission risk and why. Different spaces have different problems and need different solutions.

Act on the cause, not the symptom

With insight into which factor is driving the score in each space, the action you take matches the actual cause. Low humidity gets a humidifier; high occupancy gets a ventilation adjustment; recirculated air gets a filter check.

Build trust with occupants or tenants

Continuous monitoring shows employees, students, parents, and tenants that you're taking the indoor environment seriously. It also gives you the data to back up that commitment when someone asks.