airCheck
Develop an app or platform to crowd-source information for comparing changes in environmental factors, such as temperature, relative humidity, air pollution, with occurrence of symptoms of allergies and respiratory diseases. Create tools for public entry and grading of symptoms, including but not limited to cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, sneezing, nasal obstruction, itchy eyes; and geographic mapping of symptom frequency and intensity. Create a platform for comparison of symptom map with NASA provided data, with visualization options for web and/or smart phone.
Project airCheck has been created with the motto "Be Aware Naturally!". It aims to offer insight into air pollution and its adverse effect on overall public health.
AirCheck integrates pollution stats with crowd-sourced symptoms based on: - Location (City, Country) , Pollution metrics(Relative Humidity, Sulfur DiOxide ,Air quality), Occurrence and severity (Mild, Moderate, Severe) of symptoms of allergies and respiratory diseases.
The server database integrates symptoms with location based pollution information. Users are also given an approximate health hazard statistics of the current location or any other requested location.
The app gives users a number of functionalities.
1. Contribute to the global user database
2. View analyzed data on the occurance and severity of symptoms in areas of interest.
3. Get scrutinized prediction on health risks in particular zones .The prediction algorithm uses NASA's real time WorldView data .
Future Possibilities :
1. Have substiantial impact on user perspective by using more adept prediction algorithm
2. Use IBM BlueMix to crowdsource related data from twitter.
3. This global database can be used for data mining in future researches for finding new correlations between air quality data and public health.
4. Provide custom-tailored data to users to better inform him about his health conditions from our web-server.
