Developing a Low-Cost Wearable Personal Exposure Monitor for Studying Respiratory Diseases Using Metal-Oxide Sensors.

ABSTRACT: Global industrialization and urbanization have led to increased levels of air pollution. Those with respiratory diseases, such as asthma, are at the highest risk for adverse health effects and reduced quality of life. Studying the relationship between pollutants and symptoms is usually achieved with data from government air quality monitoring stations, but these fail to report the spatial and temporal resolution required to track a person's true exposure, especially when the majority of their time is spent indoors. We develop and build eight wrist-worn wearable devices, weighing only 64 g, to measure known asthma symptom triggers: ozone, total volatile organic compounds, temperature, humidity, and activity level. The devices use commercial off-the-shelf components, costing under $150 each

SUBMITTER: Mallires KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8318339 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature