AirPoll

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.

We crowdsource information on people's subjective wellbeing, as well as empirical data from cheap, mass produced pollutant sensors & NASA's open data sets.

We facilitate the analysis of these three datasets to find tight links between pollutant levels and people's comfort, and in the future hope to provide personalised feedback on the weather/pollution conditions. If we see that you tend to suffer from shortness of breath when NOx levels rise above 0.05ppm, we will warn you when we see a trend that indicates this might occur in your area.

With very localised pollution data, we can help local government make evidence based policies that help eliminate pollution hotspots in towns and cities.

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Technologies used:

• Ionic 2.0 Framework
• Angular JS 2.0 in Typescript using ES5
• Google Maps API, with Maps Visualization Add-on
• Node.JS, MongoDB, Swagger, Express
• Bluefish Web Creator
• Bootstrap library
• Heroku

Open Data sets:

• NASA EOSDIS
• NASA WorldView maps
• World Air Quality Project (http://aqicn.org/)