A New Generation Air Pollution Alert System: Integrating Air Quality Models and Location-Aware Mobile Devices

Nuri Yilmazer; Kuo-Jen Liao; Young Lee; Juan Mora; William Webb; Remzi Seker

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A New Generation Air Pollution Alert System: Integrating Air Quality Models and Location-Aware Mobile Devices

Nuri Yilmazer, Kuo-Jen Liao, Young Lee, Juan Mora, William Webb, Remzi Seker

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This paper introduces a new real-time air pollution alert system using mobile devices. Through the location awareness capability of mobile devices, Android- and iOS-based apps are developed to inform the public residing in the vicinity of air pollution areas. The apps have shown to be working successfully sending push notifications as well as a regional map to convey the air pollution information to users. The apps and real-time air pollution alert system can also be extended for other natural environmental disasters such as hurricanes, flooding, and wildfires and man-made disasters such as chemical spills.

Published in	International Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Analysis (Volume 1, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijema.20130101.13
Page(s)	21-26
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Real-time alert system; location aware systems; Smart Phones; Air Quality; Air Pollution Alert System

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Nuri Yilmazer, Kuo-Jen Liao, Young Lee, Juan Mora, William Webb, et al. (2013). A New Generation Air Pollution Alert System: Integrating Air Quality Models and Location-Aware Mobile Devices. International Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Analysis, 1(1), 21-26. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijema.20130101.13

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Nuri Yilmazer, Kuo-Jen Liao, Young Lee, Juan Mora, William Webb, et al. A New Generation Air Pollution Alert System: Integrating Air Quality Models and Location-Aware Mobile Devices. Int J Environ Monit Anal. 2013;1(1):21-26. doi: 10.11648/j.ijema.20130101.13

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Nuri Yilmazer

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas, USA
Kuo-Jen Liao

Environmental Engineering Department, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas, USA
Young Lee

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas, USA
Juan Mora

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas, USA
William Webb

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas, USA
Remzi Seker

Electrical, Computer, Software & Systems Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL,USA

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