G. Memmi and U. Blanke (Eds.): MobiCASE 2013, LNICST 130, pp. 277–281, 2014.
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A Mobile Environmental Air Quality Information System
as a Support for m-Health
Elena Mitreska, Danco Davcev, and Kosta Mitreski
Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering – Skopje, University “Ss. Cyril
and Methodius” – Skopje
elenamitreska@gmail.com,
{danco.davcev,kosta.mitreski}@finki.ukim.mk
Abstract. Considering mobile device limitations, such as storage, computing
power and bandwidth, we propose a mobile cloud computing in order to
provide the necessary resources and for delivery of any multimedia data like
maps, alarms or messages to the mobile user devices.
The main contribution of this paper is the scalability of our mCloud-based
pollution monitoring system. The system can be extended to the entire territory
of the country and it integrates all sensor pollution data with patient databases.
By using mobile technologies, users/patients receive alerts concerning the air
quality levels through user-friendly messages.
Keywords: Air Quality Index, Cloud Computing, m-Health, Lung Disease,
Prevention, Alerts.
1 Introduction
In this paper, as a part of our e-Health system, we focus on patients with lung
diseases. The database of radiological images is used as a ground level for diagnostics
and cloud computing is used to connect this system with data from the Airpointer
system. The Airpointer system gathers raw data through various sensors for which
GIS technology can be used to make visualization from the air pollution parameters.
In the sections that follow, we present several related works that depict some
important topics concerning our system (Section 2). Afterwards, the Architecture of
the Air Quality Monitoring System is presented (Section 3). The experimental results
present the outcome of the different systems and their interaction (Section 4). Section
5 concludes the paper and presents some possible future upgrades of the system.
2 Related Work
Many authors (see [1] for example) try to find various ways to measure air pollution,
to increase public awareness and eventually to prevent medical conditions that are in
direct correlation with this environmental problem.