Web & Mobile Application for Particulate Fungi Monitoring

According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), 22.4% of Puerto Ricans suffer from asthma and that percentage increases to 25.3% in children between the ages of 5 and 14. In the case of allergic asthma, asthma, attacks are commonly caused by pollen and fungal spores in outdoor air. These particles can trigger a reaction in the immune system that controls how the body defends itself. This paper presents the development of an application to show pollen and spores levels collected by certified stations in Puerto Rico. A mobile and web application will be implemented to display the data collected and uploaded to a MySQL database. Also the software currently used to manually count the spores and pollen levels will be redesigned to work with Java and a MySQL database to replace the current one working with VBA and Excel. Keywords—Spores, fungal, mobile, application. Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.18687/LACCEI2015.1.1.168 ISBN: 13 978-0-9822896-8-6