ENVI4ALL: Personalised Air Quality Information Based on Open Environmental Data and User-Generated Information

Abstract

Air pollution open data has a huge value for citizens, especially these belonging to vulnerable groups. Information on air quality can help them to take better informed decisions that safeguard their health. Although this information is available in multiple sources, in the form that the data is provided, it is difficult for citizens to extract the information they actually need. In addition, existing monitoring stations mainly cover only large cities, and fail to take into account differences in microclimates occurring within a specific area. ENVI4ALL will be an application that addresses these challenges by providing direct access to personalised and localised information on air quality (current, forecast, and historical), making use of diverse sources of large datasets of open air quality data, and crowdsourced information on the perception of app users about the current air quality. An empirical model will be also applied for the provision of air quality forecasts.