AircheckTO

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.

AircheckTO provides a simple intuitive web interface for displaying and logging crowd-sourced data. Users have the ability to fill out an easy-to-use form describing their symptoms, which is integrated with other data from users around the world. This data is then used to populate a heat map which displays weather and air quality at any location worldwide.

Users also have the ability to tweet at @AircheckAppsTO, including their symptoms and a hashtag of their current location. This information is then added to the existing data set and displayed on the heat map. The quality of air in major city centers worldwide is continuously monitored, and unsafe levels of pollutants are reported through the twitter account.

To implement this solution, the team leveraged the Spark Web Framework alongside jQuery and a SQL database. We also used a variety of different API's, including weather and air quality from http://openweathermap.org/, as well as the Twitter API.