Environment crowd-sensing for asthma management

Chronic diseases are the main cause of mortality in developed countries. Among them, asthma has an increasing prevalence in urban areas. We propose to use the crowd-sensing paradigm for monitoring the environment, especially the air quality parameters relevant for asthma patients. Asthma is a good candidate for participatory medicine approaches as current medical guidelines promote self-management of the disease by informed and ICT enabled patients. The paper continues our work for m-health applications for asthma patients and focuses on decentralized air quality monitoring by the patients themselves using affordable and available hardware platforms based on Arduino.