Airify — A mobile solution for monitoring air quality in urban areas

Abstract

Air pollution is a hot topic because of the impact it has on the human health. Due to a change of paradigm in air quality monitoring, new approaches are emerging (e.g. mobile participatory sensing). In this paper, we propose a solution for air quality monitoring, Airify, intended to make a shift from traditional stationary monitoring to a personal level scale. We present the architecture of the solution and the implementation of the smartphone application, as well as a scenario of use, together with the challenges we identified along the process of development.