A Hybridization of Mobile Crowdsensing, Twitter Analytics, and Sensor Data for the Holistic Approach of Pollen onsets Detection

In this paper, we focus on designing a holistic approach to gather, monitor and analyze heterogeneous sources on allergies and allergens into one system. The dimensions of mobile crowdsensing, the sensor-based measurements, and micro-blogging raw texts are combined to address all different situations and needs. We envision that our system can be used for public health monitoring in order to early predict allergy/allergens or allergy-related irritants outbreaks. To the best of our knowledge, our system is the first holistic approach of a surveillance system for allergy in the US region.