An application for you smartphone may be able to alert you to local pollen levels.
One of the greatest challenges to sufferers of hay fever is finding ways to know –Â ahead of a mishap –Â what local pollen levels are and where they are the strongest. In light of this burden, a British creative design team, 383, has manufactured a prototype sensor that measures local air quality readings in real time and combines the information with local forecasts and online data that can be instantly uploaded to your smartphone via an application named Nosee.
According to a Western Daily Press article, John Newbold, creative director at 383 said, “We created Nosee to highlight how, using a relatively simple sensor and their smartphone, consumers’ lives could be made a whole lot easier. These prototypes help us show people what’s possible right now, and move the future a little nearer.”
By placing sensors outside an office or home to constantly monitor the quality of the local air, the application is also capable of reminding users to take medications and provide advice regarding what areas to avoid altogether due to sensitivity levels. The thinking behind the project addresses the fact that there are only specific types of pollen which cause hay fever and those are the types that the sensors are designed to track. With development still ongoing in the United Kingdom, where an estimated 10 million Brits are affected by hay fever annually, there is a sizeable market that could benefit from the application’s services once it moves out of the prototype phase.
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