Abstract— Air pollution is known to cause a wide range of diseases that have lead to countless cases of premature mortality. Although pollution in a massive scale is uncontrollable by individual inhabitant, the negative impact on health as a direct result on indoor air pollution can be reduced by appropriate preventive actions. Smart home technology allows ventilation to be controlled through condition-based monitoring of the air pollutant concentration in the room. This paper describes a prognostics framework that regulates in-room ventilation, the algorithm can be fed into a smart home control system for prevention of a number of respiratory diseases.

Index Terms—Air pollution, disease control, health monitoring

Cite: Bernard Fong and G. Y. Hong, "A Prognostics Framework for Health Degradation and Air Pollution Concentrations," Journal of Advances in Information Technology, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 64-68, February, 2012.doi:10.4304/jait.3.1.64-68