Development of Smart Interior Environmental Mobile App for Health Monitoring

Abstract

Migraines are the sixth most disabling disease in the world, affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide and are just one illness affected by environmental triggers due to changes to that occur inside the home. Due to migraines similarities to sinus headaches, migraines affected by environmental triggers can often be misdiagnosed. The development of a smart interior environmental mobile app for health monitoring is designed to take in environmental data from a user's surroundings, i.e. temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude, while also taking in user data about their chronic illnesses affected by environmental changes. These two datasets are then combined and utilized to define a user's common environment and chronic illness attacks. Once the data has been collected, an iOS app analyzes the illness in terms of the changes going on in the environment, looking for correlations that exist, common trigger points and areas of concern in the user's home environment, such as temperature, humidity, etc. This device is targeted at those who suffer from migraine attacks and believe that there is some environmental factor contributing to their migraines. This paper discusses an Internet of Things (IoT) health monitoring analyzer design used to aide user's suffering from migraines and recognize trigger areas in their environment to assist in living a healthier lifestyle.