AirNow app presentation at EUAPPCUP competition
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AirNow app presentation at EUAPPCUP competition
- 1. AirNow app for Windows Phone George Spyrou , Plusapps LLC george@plusapps.eu
- 2. Air quality & pollution levels Beijing , Feb. 26 , 2014 Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Images
- 3. 235 million people suffer from asthma worldwide Source: World Health Organization
- 4. European Environmental Agency (EEA) U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Data sources
- 5. Demo
- 6. Funded by Appcampus mobile accelerator program Available for Windows Phone 7.5 & 8 as a free app 10K downloads since December 2013 Featured on UK, Italy, Germany, France stores Traction
- 7. Support for major Chinese cites Trial/Paid version for push notifications Next version
- 8. Thank you! george@plusapps.eu @gspyrou
Editor's Notes
- Introduction .My name is George Spyrou I am a software engineer and I am the developer of the AirNow which is an app that notifies users about the pollution levels near their location.
- Polluted air is a significant problem in almost ever major city worldwide.This photo was taken last week on Tiananmen Square Beijing. People are wearing masks in order to protect themselves from breathing the polluted air.Air quality and pollution levels affect everyone’s health and wellbeing.
- Some groups of the population are more sensitive to the quality of the air . An example of a sensitive group is people with asthma which is a disease that makes patients have difficulty in breathing .The number of people suffering from asthma is estimated to be 235 million worldwide (source WHO) .Air pollution is one of the reasons that can trigger asthma so for these people it is important to when and where the pollution levels exceed certain limits. For this group of people air pollution is a serious hazard for their health and they need a way to monitor it.
- EEA & EPA have established a network of data stations that provide measurements of pollutants in near real time
- Demo of user experience:1 Open the app2 The AirNow app performs a proximity search and returns the air quality status of the closest station 3 Navigate to the closest station information page4 Describe the air quality index color scale5 Describe the list of pollutants for this station6 Share the air quality status for this station via Twitter (add #euappcup)7 Pin this station to the home screen8 Describe the Live Tiles design 9 For bad air quality the user is notified with toast messages
- Since the launch of the AirNow at the Windows Phone Store on mid December it has 10K downloads and it has been featured in the major European markets .
- Next version of the app will add data for major Chinese cities where the air quality problem is bigger.And a trial/paid version for the push notifications functionality.In summary the AirNow app is targeted to the people who need to manage their breathing related health problems but also to the environmentally aware citizens .It makes use of open data and windows phone capabilities in order to provide information about the quality of the air at .