Ambient Air alert services based on tailored health communication

摘要

The development of technologies and industries have lead us to an even more convenient life, but they might be also responsible to damage the environment. Air pollution is one of the effects. At certain time, most visible consequences of air pollution might be “smog”. Therefore, many governments issue open data of Air Pollution Index(API) or Air Quality Index as outdoor reference. However, indoor air pollution or ambient environment might also be a worse toxic source. This research aims to provide a solution to alert ambient air pollution. The system, which is composed of hardware sensors and software agents, includes a set of web services to gather and compile data and a mobile application to communicate with users. The data source of the system are official open data as wide area data source and devices sensing data as local data source. All data is compiled and sent to the mobile application. The application not only uses data directly, but also adapts itself to fit users' personal health requirements. The research model of Tailored Health Communication is applied in the system to learn from users' feedbacks in order to provide more personal and accurate messages. Therefore, it is believed that with this service, the hearth impacts of air pollution can be reduced.