CitiSense: improving geospatial environmental assessment of air quality using a wireless personal exposure monitoring system

Authors:
Nima Nikzad;Nakul Verma;Celal Ziftci;Elizabeth Bales;Nichole Quick;Piero Zappi;Kevin Patrick;Sanjoy Dasgupta;Ingolf Krueger;Tajana Šimunić Rosing;William G. Griswold
Affiliations:
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Venue:
Proceedings of the conference on Wireless Health
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Environmental exposures are a critical component in the development of chronic conditions such as asthma and cancer. Yet, medical and public health practitioners typically must depend on sparse regional measurements of the environment that provide macro-scale summaries. Recent projects have begun to measure an individual's exposure to these factors, often utilizing body-worn sensors and mobile phones to visualize the data. Such data, collected from many individuals and analyzed across an entire geographic region, holds the potential to revolutionize the practice of public health. We present CitiSense, a participatory air quality sensing system that bridges the gap between personal sensing and regional measurement to provide micro-level detail at a regional scale. In a user study of 16 commuters using CitiSense, measurements were found to vary significantly from those provided by official regional pollution monitoring stations. Moreover, applying geostatistical kriging techniques to our data allows CitiSense to infer a regional map that contains considerably greater detail than official regional summaries. These results suggest that the cumulative impact of many individuals using personal sensing devices may have an important role to play in the future of environmental measurement for public health.