Bio³Air, an integrative system for monitoring individual-level air pollutant exposure with high time and spatial resolution.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Air pollution is a leading cause of global disease burden. Lack of suitable methods for long term measuring exposure level at individual level is crippling environmental epidemiology research of air pollution.

Methods

We report an integrative system, Bio³Air, for long term measurement of individual level air pollution exposure, currently focusing on ambient particulate matter (PM). The novel system in real-time quantifies individual's outdoor/indoor status, geological location, lung ventilation rate and PM concentration of individual's surrounding environment, and these metrics are subsequently incorporated in calculating PM exposure.

Results

The system is fully developed and tested in China, USA and Canada, and has been successfully applied in e

SUBMITTER: Cheng H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6311139 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature