Through Global Monitoring to School of the Future: Smartphone as a Laboratory in Pocket of Each Student

TL;DR

This paper proposes using smartphones as personal environmental and health sensors to create a global monitoring network, enhancing education and understanding of environmental impacts on health.

Contribution

It introduces a scalable system leveraging smartphones as sensors for global environmental and health monitoring, integrating data collection with educational engagement.

Findings

Potential for large-scale environmental data collection

Enhanced student participation in scientific monitoring

Insights into electromagnetic and pollution impacts on health

Abstract

The idea to unite smartphones used as personal environmental sensors and health indicators into a scalable network for data collection and processing by the internet-cloud is proposed. Access to the sensors, which are available in every smartphone, will provide the appropriate software. Such a monitoring at the global level would reveal the impact of the electromagnetic radiation, environmental pollution and weather factors on human health. Participation of students in these measurements increases their educational and social activities.