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AirSense: A portable context-sensing device for personal air quality monitoring

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Abstract

Health eects attributed to air pollution, especially ambient fine particulate matter (PM2:5), become a global issue. The central environment monitoring networks provide limited spatial coverage and no contextual information. However, there is no solution to take contextual information, such as environmental and user behavioral factors, into account, which is highly associated to the variability of air quality level and the complex relationship between air quality and human activities. In this paper, we design, implement, and evaluate a new context-sensing device for personal air quality monitoring, namely AirSense. AirSense is a portable and cost-eective platform, which is equipped with a dust sensor, a global position system (GPS) sensor, a temperature and humidity sensor, and an accelerometer sensor. The development of such a user-centered and geographicalinformation integrated platform enables us to collect finegrained air quality along with contextual information. We evaluate the platform across a set of focused settings, such as the indoor vs outdoor, walking vs in-vehicle, moving vs stationary, and an environment with various levels of dust. Meanwhile, a user study is conducted to verify that AirSense is capatable of performing the ambient air quality monitoring in daily life. We also discuss several other applications with the new context-sensing platform.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobileHealth 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare, co-located with MobiHoc 2015
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages17-22
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450334891
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 22 2015
Event5th ACM International Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare, MobileHealth 2015 - Hangzhou, China
Duration: Jun 22 2015Jun 22 2015

Publication series

NameMobileHealth 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare, co-located with MobiHoc 2015

Conference

Conference5th ACM International Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare, MobileHealth 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHangzhou
Period06/22/1506/22/15

Keywords

  • Context Sensing
  • Evaluation
  • Personal Air Quality Monitoring

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