Scenes and scheduling
The user creates a scene (“Night”, “Airing”) and schedules when it runs. The schedule lives on our backend, not in the phone — so it works even when the phone is off.
Case study · App
AIRREC — ventilation under control
A native app that turns controlling decentralised heat-recovery ventilation into a couple of taps — on the phone, the tablet, the watch and the TV.
- Role
- Design · engineering · website
- Platforms
- iOS · iPadOS · Android · watchOS · Wear OS · tvOS · Android TV
- Languages
- 50 languages
- Website
- airrec.app
The brief
Decentralised heat-recovery units are usually controlled with a remote or a button on the wall. The moment you have several of them in a house, that stops making sense: every room runs its own mode, nothing can be scheduled, and nothing is visible in one place.
We wanted an app that talks to the units directly, works from a watch, and does not look like an industrial panel from the nineties.
What we built
Unit groups
Several units can be managed together as one room or a whole floor.
Seven surfaces, one experience
Phone, tablet, Apple Watch, Wear OS, Apple TV and Android TV — the same design and the same features everywhere, adapted to how each device is controlled.
Home-screen widgets
Ventilation status and quick actions right on the home and lock screens.
An honest disconnect
Paid automations run on our backend, and when a subscription lapses the backend returns the hardware to its safe default. Paid behaviour does not stay in the unit “free forever”.
Its own website
We also built the app’s site, airrec.app — multilingual, fast, in the same visual language.
Technology
Swift · SwiftUIKotlin · Jetpack ComposeWidgetKit · GlancewatchOS · Wear OStvOS · Android TVCloudflare Workers
The result
The app covers seven device types and is translated into 50 languages — with identical design on iOS and Android.
Hardware control is bound to a live subscription and verified server-side, so a paid feature cannot “survive” outside the app.
After our own trademark screen we renamed the original BRAVO + to AIRREC — a collision with someone else’s mark was solved before launch, not after it.
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