Easter Egg: Throughout our website you will see the Air icon to identify devices/products that use Air technology

Air is Loxone’s wireless solution for automation control. It uses encrypted (IPsec) transmission over radio frequency to communicate to its devices. Due to the proprietary nature of the encryption over this frequency, only Loxone devices can currently communicate over Loxone Air and due to the frequency selection it is also less likely to interfere or get interference from other electronics devices. 

Loxone Air Technology works on a proprietary wireless communication protocol that creates a mesh network throughout the project whereby every non-battery powered Air devices acts as a repeater to form a network capable of large transmission ranges. In the picture below you can see 1 x Miniserver Go that hops a signal to some Loxone Air lights. These Air lights then repeat the signal to other Air devices until the whole floor is tied together as one mesh network.

To start using Air, you need the Air Base Extension if you have the Miniserver Gen 2 or Gen 1. However, if you are using the Miniserver Go you don’t need to add any thing else as there is a transmission antenna built in to it. Air devices typically perform the same functions as any regular device except they may limit some features to conserve battery. However given the low power consumption of Air, a lot of Loxone’s Air devices claim a battery life of up to 2 years.

The good thing about air is that you can easily combine them with physical or Tree devices. For example, you can have a wireless door sensor that triggers a relay to turn on a siren but works with an NFC Touch Tree to activate the alarm. Loxone’s Air technology allows you the flexibility to navigate around your project, and if planned properly, even around an entire building.

When you have a lot of devices on the same frequency channel, the connection quality can start to suffer. You can check the availability of a channel in Loxone Config through Device Status. If the channel is busy you can change the frequency of the Air Base Extension and Air devices and all devices will change to the new frequency.

Since non-battery powered Air devices repeat the signal, a large network can be formed with just one Air Base Extension. However, if an Air device is receiving a signal that has been repeated by two other Air devices in succession, it can be weak and might be delayed. For this reason we recommend using an additonal Air Base Extension for large installs. To see how many times a signal has been repeated to reach a device, you can check the number of “hops” in the Device Status section in Loxone Config under “hops”.

Simply put, if you have a lot of walls, the range of the signal will suffer.